Poodle and the Blue Desert Dunes

About this curriculum

Mom’s Choice Gold Award-Winner! This book introduces first, second, and third graders to grammar concepts in an illustrated story format that kids will love! This is the fourth book in the Preliminary Level of the MCT language arts curriculum. Mom’s Choice Gold Award-Winner! The desert at night is a lovely place, a landscape of cool blue dunes under a galaxy of stars sparking showers onto the sand. It is in this magical landscape that Poodle the chicken and What? the beagle find themselves in Poodle and the Blue Desert Dunes . The two friends are searching for prepositions, and this is an ideal place to start because the desert is nothing if not a brilliant example of space and time extending in all directions, and prepositions are exactly the kinds of words that describe these dimensions of existence. But prepositions are just the beginning. Ultimately, the friends are exploring prepositional phrases. Phrases constitute level three of MCT’s four-level sentence analysis, and while there are several different kinds of phrases, prepositional phrases are a good place…