Poodle and the Blue Mountain Monster

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 second book in the Preliminary Level of the MCT language arts curriculum. Mom’s Choice Gold Award-Winner! When last we saw Poodle the chicken and his best friends What? and Sidney (a beagle and a snail, respectively), they had just mastered the eight parts of speech (level one of MCT’s four-level sentence analysis), and they were heading across a vast blue plain toward the world of words. Now the horizon shows a mountain range with a bright star above it, holding the promise of new knowledge: the parts of the sentence (level two). But getting to the top of the mountain is a treacherous endeavor because a frightening monster keeps buffeting them with wind and hurling snow at them and doing what he can to stop their progress. CUT! What? No, not you, What?. (He thought I was talking to him.) I mean, What happened? LIGHTS! Wait, that’s a mouse shouting those directions, and the three friends are on a stage!? Where’s the mountain? Where’s the monster? Is that a wind machine? What’s going on?…