By helping reader's to identify the author's purpose for Duck for President, you can use the book as a playful springboard for conversation around Duck's motives for wanting to be President.

Your students will quickly make text to self and text to world connections while reading this book. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to extend their connections by helping them make meaningful ones that deepen comprehension.

Doreen Cronin's hilarious illustrations provide readers with multiple opportunities make meaningful inferences while learning about our political process and what it takes to be President.

With its engaging cast of characters and comedic plot, Duck for President offers readers the opportunity to identify which events, characters, problems, and solutions should be included when they retell or summarize the book.

Duck learns a lot about what it takes to be President. Help your students track the ways in which duck changes across the text with this synthesizing lesson plan and set of resources.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Duck for President by Doreen Cronin as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how two sounds of the vowel combination "ea" are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowel combinations.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Duck for President highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Duck for President.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Duck for President. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Read Duck for President then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Duck for President. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Duck for President includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.