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nce upon a time in pencil school, a teacher

named Ms. 2 told her class, Today were
going to write a story!

said Little Red.

said the birthday pencil.

said the
basketball
pencil.

said the birthday pencil.

said the basketball pencil.

said the state pencil.

wondered Little Red.

Ms. 2 gave Little Red a basket of 15 red

words to use in case she ran into trouble.

said Little Red

.

nouns

Little Red opened her notebook and began:

decided Little Red.

nouns

She wanted her story to be exciting!

She went to the gym and was quickly

drawn into the action.

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She

boogied.

cartwheeled right off the page and into...

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dark,
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said a voice from

the supply closet.

s
noun

Little Red squeezed the bottle . . .

s
noun

Too many glue words came out!

So that is how she found herself
writing a sentence that would not
end but just kept going and going
and running on and on although
it had no purpose yet it would not
get out of her story or say anything
important so she was glad when a
helpful word arrived--

SUDDENLY

(and it broug
ht some friend
s).

she heard a strange sound, which she decided

required all capitals and rather large punctuation:

nouns

It was
the m
iddle
of her
story,
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somet
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her!