pickThis modern fantasy book, Duck for President by Doreen Cronin, won the 2004 Parents Choice Award and would be a great book to RA. Duck wanted to do something different than chores, so he decided to organize and election to make him president! 🎤🦆
DianaHerrera **Edit above: Duck wanted to do something different than doing chores, so he decided to organize an election to make himself president of the farm!** https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/duck-president... (edited) 6y
DianaHerrera Before reading the book the students are to look at the cover of the book and talk about the pictures and the title (i.e.: what are the color schemes? Why might Duck be standing on the microphone, etc.) After the students have listened to the story, the students will do a True or False activity. Since it is a short lesson, there is an extension that I absolutely love! It is called, “Vote for Me (students name goes here).” 6y
DianaHerrera Students can create their very own poster that has a motivational message that would want citizens to vote for them. You can even have the students to really vote for who think should be president and whoever has the most votes, wins. What they win, of course, all depends on the teacher. 6y
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DianaHerrera UDL 9.1: Duck for President is a great book that promotes what they should expect when it comes to election day which should also motivate themselves to think about who they should vote and why. ESOL 1: Providing questions during/after the reading allows students to build clarification of the story to complete the activity. #UCFLAE3414SuB18 #VoteForDuck #ClassroomLibrary 6y
emilybanne Super cute book. I love the activity and it would be a great read on presidents day! 6y
DianaHerrera @emilybanne i think it would be great for Presidents‘ Day too. 6y
RossoS Such a funny book. The activity provided would be a great way to check for students comprehension👌🏼 6y
ATejada This book is great to also teach students that the grass is not always greener on the other side! Great post and thanks for sharing! 6y
DrSpalding High quality book for social studies integration. Such thoughtful UDL and EL alignment. 6y
DrSpalding I love the idea of them creating a poster with a motivational message! Voting is at the heart of our civic duty. 6y