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The Ugly Duckling

 

Read the story and choose the right spelling from the drop down box. Check your answers at the end of the test.

 Mother Duck was sitting on her eggs waiting for them to hatch. Very soon she heard a cracking noise  out of their shells.  The  ducklings quacked and fell over each other.  As Mother Duck them playing, she was sure that one of them was different from the rest. He was a dull grey colour and much bigger than the other ducklings.

 Mother Duck then  the ducklings to the water and all of them, even the odd one, soon learnt to swim.  She was  that he would look better as he got older,  but the    ducks and the hens in the farmyard made fun of him.  They  him and bit him  and 'Ugly Duckling when he went by.

 Poor Ugly Duckling! He  so unhappy because no one liked him  that he ran away from the farmyard into the big world.

Read the whole story to find out what happened to the Ugly Duckling.  But here is a clue.

 

When you have finished, check your spellings by clicking on the 'finished' button.
 
  

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