Ducks Don’t Wear Socks

In Ducks Don’t Wear Socks by John Nedwidek (Author) and Lee White (Illustrator), Emily meets a duck who tries to make her laugh.

“Duck,” asked Emily. “What are you wearing?”
“Socks!” yelled Duck.
“Ducks don’t wear socks,” replied Emily, quite seriously.

Ideas Mini-lesson
Primary/Intermediate: Ask students to write their own funny story. What jokes can they tell to make someone laugh? Use the Idea Wheel graphic organizer to think of ideas for jokes.

Conventions Mini-lesson
Primary/Intermediate: When people talk to one another, the dialogue has quotation marks. Ask students to check their stories to make sure they added quotation marks to the dialogue.

Take the Intensive Picture Book Workshop for inservice clock hours.