Monday, June 15, 2009

The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen

Book Genre: Fiction
Publishing Info: HarperCollins; 40 pages
Awards or honors: Caldecott Medal

Summary: During the summer a mother duck's eggs hatch. When the eggs hatched the mother duck had 6 beautiful yellow ducklings. One large egg hatched and was very big, gray, and ugly! The barnyard animals made fun of the gray duck. He could not take all the teasing and ran away. He came to a swamp and met two geese. They said he was ugly but they liked him and he could stay with them. Winter came and the duckling was left alone as the geese flew south. For the rest of the winter he stayed by the swamp. When spring arrived he was able to fly, his feather were a beautiful white color! He flew by a pond and noticed two beautiful swans. He wanted to join them but he knew he was too ugly. When he looked in the water he noticed he looked like them! The beautiful swans greeted him and welcomed him to join them!

Personal Rating: *****Great! Excellent story for all ages!

Reading level: 3.4
Interest level: K- adulthood

Possible uses of the text:
Art/Reading: Student divide paper into two sections. Have them draw the duckling at the beginning of the story and at the end of the story.

Science: Discuss/illustrate the cycle of a swan.

Math: Using different colors/sizes eggs students sort and graph them.

Possible Problems: none

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