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What worked were words that touched upon wellsprings of inner life, especially fear and sex. To build a "key vocabulary," Teacher Ashton-Warner daily asked her tots, "What word do you want?" Among the words children chose: love, kiss, darling, ghost, bomb, alligator, police. Each child took home "his" word, printed on a big card, learned it without effort. Using these "one-word captions of the inner world," the kids went on to write a daily autobiographical story. Sample: "Mummie got a hiding off Daddy. He was drunk, she was crying." Or: "My Father got drunk, and He drank...