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Joan Holub's Little Red Writing

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Most children’s books focus on adventure and fantasy while teaching the young reader a simple lesson. In Joan Holub’s Little Red Writing she uses a pencil character to teach children about writing stories. In this children’s story a little pencil named Red receives an assignment to write a short story to share with the class. As Red sets, out on her adventure she faces many obstacles like the descriptive forest, the word glue, adverbs that chase her, and worse of all the bad pencil sharpener. All these obstacles teach her how to put her story together and what is acceptable and what is not acceptable in writing. After, Red faces these obstacles she saves the day by stopping the pencil sharpener just in time to share her story with the class. …show more content…

Once Red gets ready to start like most writers she searches for motivation so she travels through the school looking for motivation until she comes to the gym and starts bouncing around until she decides she wants to write an exciting story and bounces right off the page into the descriptive forest. This teaches readers that it is important to look for inspiration, whether that’s doodling or roaming around you need a topic before starting your writing so you don’t jump all over the place. Once in the descriptive forest Little Red realizes that her story is over whelming with detail and must use scissors to cut out some of the descriptive words. This shows the reader that although detail is important to a story to much of it can bring down the story so it is important to get rid of unnecessary details. As Red cuts her way out of the descriptive forest she wanders into the supply closet where she meets Glue who she squeezes and words spew all over the page. These words leave Red with long winded run on sentences with no stop. This scene shows the importance of punctuation in sentence and that run-on sentences are not appropriate and makes the story hard to understand. To solve her run-on problem the adverb comes to help but brings one of its friend who makes a loud GRR sound and chases Red all down the page. Reds only weapon is the nouns in her

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