Having read the short story , "Charles" about a fictional mischievous kindergarten student,Laurie, today , as a creative writing exercise, Bobby composed a letter to the grown up Laurie about Bobby's reaction to the story and to Laurie's behavior. We discussed what Bobby might want to ask the adult ,Laurie, and how Bobby felt about Laurie's bad behavior followed by Bobby's writing a draft posing some good questions the story doesn't answer such as: Was Laurie punished by his parents? the school? Is Laurie as oblivious a parent as Laurie's parents were? After completing the draft ,we addressed revisions to clarify vague pronouns, to remove superfluous words, and to substitute specific descriptive words for vague broad adjectives. Bobby's revisions were very productive. He ,for example, substituted the clause," were you punished?" for "did something bad happen to you?"Likewise, he substituted the word " shenanigans " for vague pronouns such as "it" . We further completed a vocabulary exercise based on words used in the story.