Poodle Knows Clauses

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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 sixth book in the Preliminary Level of the MCT language arts curriculum. Mom’s Choice Gold Award-Winner! Before this book, if you had asked Poodle to name his favorite place, he might have said the Blue Desert. Or maybe he would have chosen Van Gogh’s Starry Night . Oh, stop it. Of course I know that Starry Night isn’t a real place. Except that it is. Poodle and his friends all went there in the last book, remember? They went into paintings, and I’d venture a guess that Van Gogh’s most famous masterpiece was their favorite. But with this book, Poodle’s answer to the question of where his favorite place lies will probably change because this time, instead of going into paintings, Poodle and some of his best pals go into poems, and it’s utterly magical. You see, in this book the friends are learning about clauses (level four of Michael’s four-level sentence analysis), and there’s no better way of st…