Miss Reiner explains that Planning is what Real Authors do before they write, and Good Writers make a plan for their story before they even start,
When she takes it home glued into the yellow book that somehow lost its allure she shows it to Mommy. Mommy reads the comment and frowns. Her heart falls.
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he is eight years old nearly nine and fourth grade is the year when you get your very own large-size notebook just for that wondrous subject called Creative Writing. It is yellow and wide spaced just a thread of sky blue margin bordering the pages.
The first title of the year pronounces a steely-eyed Miss Reiner is “All About Me.”
She writes it on the board pressing hard so the chalk scrapes against the dusty black. A piece splinters off as she double underlines the words.
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