Shifty Characters by Shirley Francis-Salley
 
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 Letters are really cool characters. They belong to the alphabet.

            They stand beside each other to form words we don’t often forget.

When they are ready to move, these characters know things just won’t be the same.

The words they were a moment ago are now about to change.

They switch their places for new spaces. They like to move around,

to create new words, create new thoughts, and to also create new sounds.