-uck Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will read and use -uck family words to build phonics and fluency.

Vocabulary
duck, luck, truck, stuck, pluck, muck

Teaching Notes

• Blend onsets with -uck.
• Read the story aloud and highlight -uck words.
• Practice onset-rime segmentation with students.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family
The duck jumps off the truck. It lands in the muck with luck. We pluck flowers by the duck pond. The truck got stuck in the muck. The duck swims fast past the truck.

Word Family to Learn

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Word Play

uck, uck, uck, uck, uck, uck

Sentences to Fill In

The jumps off the .
It lands in the with .
We p flowers by the pond.
The got in the .
The swims fast past the .

Activities

• Act out or illustrate the story.
• Write two new sentences with -uck words.

Games

• “Missing Letter”: fill in the hidden onsets in Word Play.
• “Speed Build”: say each full word out loud after filling in.

Reflection

• My favorite -uck word today is:
• Now make your own sentence using some of the -uck words you learned.