Make number charts for each student. The charts should have 10 columns and two rows. The first row can be just large enough to write a number in. The second row can run the length of the page. In the first row, write the numbers one through 10, starting with one in the first column at the top of the page. Then give each student a number chart and a bunch of small stickers. Instruct the children to place a sticker in the appropriate column each time they hear a number in the story. For example, when the teacher reads, "One duck stuck," the students should each put a sticker in the column labeled with a one. After the children understand what they need to do, the teacher should then read the story out loud while the students fill in their number charts.
Prior to reading the book to the children, make paper cutouts of each of the animals named in the book. Then talk to the children about the different types of animals, such as birds, mammals and insects. When you are ready to read the book, write each of the different animal categories on the board. After each page is read out loud, choose one student to take the paper cutout of the animal named on that particular page and tape it to the board under the correct category. After the story is over, review the different categories and which animals went in each category.
After reading the story out loud to the children, provide them with plenty of art supplies, including crayons, markers, construction paper, scissors and glue. Instruct the children to recreate a different scene or page from the book. When all the projects are finished and dry, hang them up in the classroom in the correct order. If more than one child created the same page from the book, group those pictures together.
Learning rhyming words is an important lesson and skill for preschoolers. Being able to identify rhyming words is an early reading skill, and it will help them in learning both reading and writing. The book, "One Duck Stuck," uses a lot of rhyming words to tell the story. After reading through the story once, read it a second time, going page by page. After each page, have children pick out what the rhyming words were. Write the rhyming words on the board for the children to see.