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The Popcorn Shop is a good example of an easy poetry book because it has a good rhythm and rhymes throughout the book. Some of the rhymes are split onto two pages which can make it difficult if a student doesn't know this and can struggle a little bit. Popcorn Nell makes to much popcorn and it takes over the town but she doesn't know how to turn her machine off. Finally it breaks and she stops making popcorn and makes pizza instead.
Media: colored crayons
I would se this book in a k-2 grade class to introduce poems and rhyming
I would also use this book to exercise the idea of starting a school project like having a popcorn shop
Genre: Poetry

A popcorn machine goes haywire in this rhyming, easy-to-read Level 3 book for beginning readers. A Hello Reader book. Full-color illustrations throughout.

This story, like "Popcorn Shop" is one of my favorites. I grew up listening to the book on tape. When reading when I am older I still love the story and appreciate the book for its work on developing reading skills. I liked the language of the story for the words have an A B C B rhyme scheme. There is also alliteration on every page. An example of the two literary techniques can be seen on page 1, "Popcorn Nell had a popcorn shop. The popcorn there went pop pop pop!" These are very beneficial to young readers as they learn to read identify sounds. I also liked the illustrations the book had. They were very detailed and provided great visuals to assist the reader's understanding. In the book the popcorn machine makes so much popcorn the town is covered in it which is accompanied by the picture on pages 27-28. The character's facial expressions are also clearly detailed and marked for the children are shown as happy while the adults are displeased. The moral of the book is to listen to the directions because the man who installed the popcorn machine told Nell not "to let it over heat or she will have more popcorn than she can eat" (6). If Nell listened she would not have had to worry about too much popcorn. Sometimes little instructions make a big difference. ( )