Poodle Knows Poetry

About this curriculum

Mom’s Choice Gold Award-Winner! This book introduces first, second, and third graders to poetics concepts in an illustrated story format that kids will love! This is the third book in the Preliminary Level of the MCT language arts curriculum. Mom’s Choice Gold Award-Winner! In Poodle Knows Poetry , children who befriended Poodle the chicken and his friends What? and Sidney in the first two books will be delighted to discover them again as Poodle explains the fundamentals of poetic devices to his surprised (and ornery!) author. Poodle begins the story alone after having left the Blue Mountain. Eventually the author is talked into writing his best friend What? the beagle into the book, and ultimately they are joined by Sidney, the world’s fastest snail, but not before a few new characters join the cast and Poodle teaches us some of the most important techniques used in writing poetry. The brilliance of the book, however, is that Michael has written these poetic devices into nearly every line so that prose and poetry become almost indistinguishable. Throughout the st…