Letting Characters Learn To Spell in Your stories below.

There is a type of writing that is rare in many fantasy books main characters and side characters teaching each other how to read and how to spell.
I only know of Two stories of books that do this that are not entirely kids books, "Holes" & Amber in The Mountains a Juvenille fantastic picture book. It was so gorgeously beautiful. In Holes one boy taught another how to read and write and in Amber in The Mountains it was a young middle school aged girl teaching a girl her age from the mountain to read and the mountain girl says later when she receives a friendly letter from her city girl best friend she says to herself, "If I can read her letters surely I can figure out how to write." what a strong message that book had for me. I was so impressed by the book that I sent it to my oldest brother and my best sister in-law ever for a reading material for their two daughters my totally sweet, adorably kind oldest nieces, Skylights.

And so now I'd like to share with you a story example of a character who makes herself learn to write and read and actually puts her spelling things out right into the text.
This story reaches out to the many African American people in my state here in North Carolina and beyond who still suffer from the Stupid grudge other U. S Citizens have for no reason and should have long died out by now. Grudges do nobody good; so just let them die already!

I'm sharing with you African American U. S Citizens a historical fiction story based off the inspiration of the author's actual great-great-great grandmother's life so this story that I am using and walking through as a writing example is based off of some really deep stuff. And here is your backstory about the author's motivation is an ode of her African American Heritage and history that should not be forgotten so that the circumstances like the ones that did occur in the past of the U. S. should cease occurring.

Award-winning author Patricia C. McKissack says, "I was inspired to write "A Picture of Freedom" by the story I grew up hearing about my great-great-great grandmother, Lizzie Passmore, who had been a slave in Barbour County, Alabama. Although it was against the law, she had somehow learned to read and write. After the Civil War ended, she started teaching children in her home near Clayton, Alabama. Unfortunately that is all I know about this remarkable woman, but it gave me the foundation upon which I built Clotee's story.'"

Although this is McKissack's first full-length work of historic fiction(yes I know the character is fictional but the events to be mentioned are historic and people need to stop ignoring the fact that there is such a genre as historical fiction books which are exactly what this is, Skylights. And since it is my favorite genre of books I am so tired of seeing them miscategorized as just pure fiction when they are not, friends. I've seen it happen to several books this is just one of them, but it very much irritates me so very deeply in the core of my heart.), she has written over sixty books for children, including Flossie and the Fox, Mirandy and Brother Wind, a Caldecott Honor Book, and The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, a Newberry Honor Book. She has co-authored with her husband, Fredrick, numerous non fiction books, which include Coretta Scott King Award winners, Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? and Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in Quarters. She also co-authored with her son, Fredrick, Jr, Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
While researching Christmas in the Big House, the McKissacks visited six plantations in the Tidewater area of Virginia. (Where the following story is purposefully set for Clotee's slave home). "It was natural for me to set the Clotee story there, because it was so fresh in my mind and we had tons of material that found a place in this book." (When you have a fresh writing idea or flash of inspiration write it down, anything helps the writing process even if its research or not or experiencing the historic essence of a very revered place any of those things can translate into your original stories.)
McKissack says her teaching experiences helped her understand how Clotee might have learned to read and write. "Finding Clotee's voice was the most difficult problem I had to overcome. Once I heard, in my head, how she would say things, then the story was easy to tell. She told it to me." This is not the first author that told me their story character's voice talk to them, and that's not real surprising. Often times once you get a story going if you leave enough flex the characters you write out will move the story forward more easily part of writing is engaging feeling out how your character acts, walks and talks so don't think you're absurd if you believe if your character's voice is in your head giving ideas. That's not a bad thing that's a good thing actually it doesn't mean you're insane it just means you have a more emotionally sensitive imagination within your brain that enables you to connect so deeply with your story characters, fellow authors. Character voice finding it and deciding whether or not it fits in the book and matches the theme of your story is the most difficult part in writing characters to me at least. And it is rather difficult to make sure they all sound very different from one another too, it uses a lot of brain power and general energy too. SilverOpaline7 

Words and music to "Go Down, Moses." While slaveowners believed religion had a placating effect on slaves, the Bible and its stories were a great source of strength and inspiration to seek freedom. In this traditional African American spiritual, the slaves identified with the Jews of Egypt who were also held in bondage by the cruel Pharaoh. Harriet Tubman was said to be the Moses of the slaves' song, helping runaway slaves escape from "Egypt's land".

Oh, this is just one hilarious classic example of the white race of men's extreme tomfoolery when it comes to using religion and the bible in the wrong ways! They thought they were ahead and they didn't quit while they were ahead and God turned their whole world on their heads!

Welcome to my annotations of the Dear America Book Series historical fiction, "A Picture of Freedom The Diary of Clotee, A Slave Girl by Patricia C. Mckissack I hope this helps young struggling writers to learn how to write better in general and see what silly rules a writer is allowed to ignore in some characters. What is an annotation? -Lumna10

I'll walk you through several categories right now:
Underlining or Highlighting key words, phrases or major idea:
You may have already noticed Clotee's verbs end in' that is how African Americans talked back then and some of them still talk like this today it gives this race a distinct dialect accent that is fell through the pages of paper you hold in your hands. The Major idea of this book is obviously that is was extremely dangerous for male or female slaves to learn to read and write during those awful times of the past and still today in other countries this almost remains true unfortunately

Highlighting or underlining key words and phrases or major ideas is the most common form of annotating texts. Many people use this method to make it easier to review material, especially for exams. Highlighting is also a good way of picking out specific language within a text that you may want to cite or quote in a piece of writing. (For Instance I would quote "'March never knows if it wants to be a spring month or a winter month.'"
However, over-reliance on highlighting is unwise for two reasons. First, there is a tendency to highlight more information than necessary, especially when done on a first reading. Second, highlighting is the least active form of annotating. Instead of being a way to begin thinking and interacting with ideas in texts, highlighting can become a postponement of that process.
On the other hand, highlighting is a useful way of marking parts of a text that you want to make notes about. And it's a good idea to highlight the words or phrases of a text that are referred to by your other annotations.

Paraphrasing/ Summarizing
Both are very different objectives. Paraphrasing is rewriting what an author says and writing them in your own words there is actually great example of paraphrasing from the Winx Club from all the characters of that team in Palladium's elvish magic class in the beginning of the Hallowinx episode remember when Flora starts reading her paper report out loud he tells her gently. "Don't read it, wxplain it in your own words." in that episode we get a very creative way of an info dump about the Magix planet system works and operates and each girl tells a piece of the story they learned in their own words without taking two seconds to read off their paper notes that is one of my favorite scenes in Season 2 of Winx Club. And the paraphrasing is very accurately done in the sense of each character.

Summarizing is very strikingly different it is a telling ab exact story in very few words or sentences it is the reason why we have idioms like "That is it in a nutshell."

Going beyond locating important ideas to being able to capture their meaning through paraphrase is a way of solidifying your understanding of these ideas. It's also excellent preparation for any writing you may have to do based on your reading. But You can summarize your own paraphrasing. But do remember they are two very different objective goals to keep in mind, sweet Skylights.

Summarizing Your Own Paraphrasing is the 4th thing of Annotation.
A series of brief notes in the margins beside important ideas gives you a handy summary right on the pages of the text itself, and if you can take the substance of a sentence or paragraph and condense it into a few words, you should have little trouble clearly demonstrating vour understandina of the ideas in question in vour own writing.

A Descriptive Outline is the 5th type of Annotation.
I'll explain it below here, sweet Skylights.

A descriptive outline shows the organization of a piece of writing, breaking it down to show where ideas are introduced and where they are developed. A descriptive outline allows you to see not only where the main ideas are but also where the details, facts, explanations, and other kinds of support for those ideas are located.
A descriptive outline will focus on the function of individual paragraphs or sections within a text. These functions might include any of the following:
• summarizing a topic/argument/etc.
• introducing an idea
• adding explanation
• giving examples
• providing factual evidence
• expanding or limiting the idea
• considering an opposing view
• dismissing a contrary view

• creating a transition
• stating a conclusion
This list is hardly exhaustive and it's important to recognize that several of these functions may be repeated within a text, particularly ones that contain more than one major idea.
Making a descriptive outline allows you to follow the construction of the writer's argument and/or the process of his/her thinking. It helps identify which parts of the text work together and how they do so.

Then the 6th type of annotation is Comments and Responses. Now currently on this book I will be using mostly the last two types of annotations.
Here is what the Comments And Response Type of Annotation involves. . .
You can use annotation to go beyond understanding a text's meaning and organization by noting your reactions-agreement/disagreement, questions, related personal experience, connection to ideas from other texts, class discussions, etc. This is an excellent way to begin formulating your own ideas for writing assignments based on the text or on any of the ideas it contains.

March 1958 Clotee's fictional slave diary first entry and first paragraph

The spring blooms are comin' and the sky is a sure blue (12 word sentence). (An instant vivid description of just the grounded world in such simplistic words but they have so much power to jump you right into the story. And then we get one of my favorite truest most ironic remarks about one of the months in our yearly calender-Lumna10) March never knows if it wants to be a spring month or a winter month. (15 words in previous sense) (Come on, tell me this is not the truest most ironic statement ever worldwide?! It is here certainly is true and most certainly Ironic here in The United States where in both states I have lived in Ohio in my past and here in North Carolina I have seen both sides of the coin in both states multiple times, sweet Skylights.) The heat's coming early to Virginia this year. (8 words in the previous sentence) That's fine with me though. (5 words in previous sentence) (Those last two sentences could have been connected by a semi colon instead of being separated into two separate sentences but the author doesn't do that because a slave would never know what some punctuation is for because they wouldn't have opportunity to learn it as easily as they might make out words as soon as they recognized letters-Lumna10) As long as it's hot I have to fan young mas' William and Miz Lilly, my mistress during their study time. (21 words in the previous sentence) (Right here is words and statement of what our character is driven about, and yet another ironic statement with more hidden subtext and mystique than our last ironic statement. The past ironic statement was generic ironic. The one before these () is a historical ironic remark. Why? Because I guarantee you there were very few plantation slaves that ever enjoyed their jobs worldwide as slaves! And very few normal white people actually enjoy the summer heat anymore today either Skylights-Lumna10. So why doesn't she mind the heat and work? What is it in it for her to go through the misery she does? Let's find out.) This morni' was the first day of my third learnin' season. (11 words in the previous sentence) For now on three years, I've been fannin' them, liftin' and lowerin' the big fan made of woven Carolina Sweet grass—up and down, up and down. (27 words with the previous sentence)
(What is Carolina Sweet Grass? Let's find out, my dear precious Skylights.
Here is the picture below

Look at the ground up above.) The fan stirs the thick air—up and down, up and down — and chases away worrisome horse flies and eye gnats. (21 words in previous sentence) It may seem like a silly job. (7 words in the previous sentence) (Quite a few people today would find this job extremely silly and still others wouldn't. So much realism in the facts of fictional text buried in the subtext giving it another worldly mystique.) But , I don't mind one bit, 'cause while William is learnin' so am I.  (14 words in Previous Sentence. #Hashtag real character goals always meet learning with excitement it will take you farther than when you're annoyed and bored of it. Believe me I'd rather be learning hands on stuff than sleeping lousily on a couch all day or uselessly watching endless repetitive tv news of multiple sources of the same inaccurate junk.)
So I have annotated the author's first paragraph entry of her fictional character's Clotee's diary entry which totaled to be only about 99 words total. Here is the math accurate done for visual reference right below.

Each of those numbers in a top line is a sentence length and you can see no length of sentence is the same, Skylights.

Standin' there fannin' — up and down, up and down — I come to know my ABCs and the sounds the letters make. (21 words in the previous sentence) (Two things I really want to point out here "'I come to know'" is neither correct tense or grammar but people who don't know how to read or speak will use sentences similar to this one, and the second thing I'd like to point out is each English letter does make a certain sound and so literally speaking nobody can say the English language isn't Phonetic because that is a total downright lie. So if you hear a professional English writer say "Oh, it is not a phonetic language!" They are so dead wrong. That is the first and only way I learnt to spell and speak in my family as a child when I started learning English back in the tail end of the 90s and early 2000s. Believe me I found a professional on Youtube who said that and her name is Lucy and she was seriously superiorly dead wrong about that fact and she does call herself a professional! It infuriated me so much that she said that I had to block her channel on Youtube. It was quite sucky advice to be spreading. SilverOpaline7 Yeah so go ahead and feel free to block the "English With Lucy Channel" on Youtube one of her videos has the United Kingdom flag don't report her just go ahead and block her she is not worth listening to for that one error and it is not worthwhile reporting her for such a stupid speaking error advice as a professional but you can totally block her. Sorry about my rant but I had to mention this. It drove me nuts that people would say such things like that when clearly majority would never agree with that stupid rule.) I teached myself how to read words.  (7 words in the previous sentence) (Again improper grammar and tense but that is totally okay to use especially if your character is the process of learning how to spell and speak, my friends.) Now, I can pick through things I find to read — like throwed away newspapers, letters in the trash, and books I slip off Mas' Henley's shelf. (26 words in the previous sentence) (What a daredevil of a little girl indeed. But please today never steal anybody books, or read through letters in the trash there maybe plenty of stuff you'd wish you never ever saw.) It scares me to know what I know sometimes. (9 words in the previous sentence) (I believe you girl some knowledge is dangerously scary to know. I know fear will always be beside us but we do not have to let it hold power over us.)

This is the second annotated paragraph in the first entry of Clotee's fictional diary. This second paragraph contains only 3 sentences and two of them were short and one was extra long. 7+26+9.
7+9=16+26
26+16=42. The second paragraph has only 42 words, Skylights.

Slaves aine s'posed to know how to read and write, but I do. (13 words in previous sentence) (I'll be darned what good ol' confidence this youngin' has! This is ol' and youngin' is also the way cowboys are willin' to talk to you ya too when you go out West.) Miz Lilly would fall down in a fit if she knew I had myself a diary