Mr. McDoodle and His Scooter BIG BOOK

Mr. McDoodle and His Scooter is a humorous story about Mr. McDoodle’s efforts to prove he can ride his scooter.  When he finally concedes that he can’t ride his scooter, he doesn’t give up.  He goes to Scooter School and learns to ride a scooter “like a surfer rides a wave.”  Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and narrative.

The story is told as a sequence of events.  Mostly simple sentences are used. Quotation marks, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses, apostrophes, and commas are used. Bold face is used for emphasis.  Large, colourful display type is used in text to enhance meaning.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.

The contraction can’t is used.  Singular/plural pairs include scooter/scooters, foot/feet, and person/people.  The homonyms to/too and hole/whole appear.  Interest words include preposterous, wibbling, wobbling, botheration, splat, and thud.

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