Free Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book With Tracing Printable
The Ugly Duckling is a great story for kids during the spring but could be all year. You have fun duck and swan theme for the story.
This simple Free Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book With Tracing is a great book with learning vocabulary for the story and a little handwriting and reading at the same time.
Kids will read the words, trace the words, and read the words in a sentence.
The Ugly Duckling Easy reader book is part of the 5 Days of Free Ugly Duckling Printables.
The Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book With Tracing Printable is part of my subscriber library. You can subscribe to the newsletter and get access to the password there. You will find it in the Nursery Rhyme / Folk Tale section on the subscriber freebie page.
What is an easy reader book?
Easy reader books are an easy way to great way to get learning tools into small hands. They can re-read them and call the book their own.
Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book With Tracing Printable
The Ugly Duckling easy reader book has words from the story with tracing of the word and then seeing the word in the sentence. A fun way to work on learning vocab from the story.
You will find the following Ugly Duckling story words in the Ugly Duckling Book Easy Reader Book: ugly duckling, nest, pond, mama duck, cat & chicken, reflection, swan.
You can see a page from the book below.
Ugly Duckling Books You Can Use with the Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book
Here are two fun books to use with this fun easy reader book
The Ugly Duckling, A Little Golden Book is a book about how the ugly duckling spends a year with other animals. They are made fun of and not well liked but they turn into an amazing swan.
The Ugly Duckling is a beautiful book for the story. It has great pictures and is a Caldecott Honor Book. This one brings the tale to life in amazing ways.
Things to use with the Ugly Duckling Reader Book With Tracing Printable
- printer
- white copy paper
- crayons
- markers
- pencil
- pencil grips – Use if they have problems holding the pencil
- stapler
- scissors
How to Make the Ugly Duckling Reader Book With Tracing
I always get asked how I make the easy reader books. Here are the simple steps that I use to make the books. I use scissors and a stapler.
Cut Down the Center of the Ugly Duckling Reader Book With Tracing
You start by lining up the pages and cutting down the middle of the book. You want to make sure you hold the pages steady while you cut.
You can use paper binders clips to help hold the paper.
Alternate the Pages of the Ugly Duckling Reader Book With Tracing
You alternate the pages of the book. The odd pages are on the top and the even pages on the bottom. You have even and then odd until all the pages are sorted.
You can see the page numbers on the top left side of the book pages.
Staple the Left side of the Ugly Duckling Reader Book With Tracing
After you make sure all the pages of the book are lined up, staple the book on the left side. There is a line on each page to help show the area to staple. Then your easy reader book is ready to be used.
You are now ready to use the Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book!
Ways to Use the Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book Printable
You are going to see a few ways that we used these easy reader books with tracing. They are super fun for kids.
Read the Book After Reading the Story
You can read kids the story of the The Ugly Duckling. Then you can have them use the book to color the pictures and talk about the characters in the book.
Using the Book in a Learning Center with Tracing
You can give them the book with a pencil to trace the words. You could also give them a pencil with pencil grip if they need it.
This makes a great handwriting center idea for kids.
Trace the Words in the Book
After you have pictures colored you can work on tracing the words on each page. This is a great handwriting tool and vocab tool at the same time.
Kids will enjoy working on handwriting with their own book.
Underline the Word in The Book
You can also have kids find the word they are working on the sentence. You can see that we have traced the word swan and then underlined the word in the sentence.
Work on the Sight Words in the Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book
You can also work on the sight words in the book. You can talk about the sight words or do anything with the sight words before reading the book.
You can get fun free sight word printables here:
Sight word: I
Sight Word see
Sight Word: the
What you will find in the Free Ugly Duckling Easy Reader Book with Tracing Printable
- Ugly Duckling Reader Book
- Tracing words: ugly duckling, nest, pond, mama duck, cat & chicken, reflection, swan
- Sight Words: I, see, the
- 8 page easy reader book
- 4 pages
More Pond Printables for Kids
Pond No-Prep Weekly Packs are great no-prep packs with six grade levels to pick from you have prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade. Each pack has 4 pages of printables for 5 days. These are easy to just print and use.
Duck in the Pond Painting with Cookie Cutters is a fun and can be used with different ages! You can have fun painting these ducks for a pond theme!
Pond Dot Markers is fun pond animals dot maker pages you can use to work on fine motor skills. This works great with the Jump Frog Jump Book.
Duck Themed Number Color and Trace is great for counting ducks on a pond. You have numbers from 0 to 20.
Check out all the fun Pond & Frog Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com