Mrs. Marigold's Menagerie

Mrs. Marigold’s Menagerie is a short story about a lady whose wild garden and countless animals annoy her neighbours. The book also discusses text connections, planning a short story, and features of a short story.  

A variety of sentence types is used.  Illustrations support and enhance the text. Text boxes call attention to literary features such as alliteration, and prompt the use of comprehension strategies, such as predicting and inferring.

The text uses descriptive language.

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