Remember: Read it back, compare it with the page, and find the slip. Fix it before you hand it in.
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The picnic signGran wrote a note for the picnic sign: Dad has a flask. Tobi typed it quickly and pressed print without reading it back. At the picnic, Zara read the sign out loud: "Dad has a falsk?" Tobi's cheeks went warm, but Gran said, "Everyone slips sometimes. Good typists have a trick." The trick has three steps. Read it back with a finger under each letter. Compare it with the page, letter by letter. Find the slip, tap backspace, fix it, and read the line again. A letter can be missing, extra or swapped. The next day Tobi typed Gran's salad sign, read it back and found the missing a. Now it said salad.
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What did Tobi forget to do before he pressed print?
read it backhold shiftfeed Mango
2
The sign said falsk because the l and the a changed places.
TrueFalse
3
Your reader sees the , not how hard you tried.
rulercatpage
Read it back, compare it, find the slip
Read it back. Compare it. Find the slip.
4
Number the checking steps, first to last.
Compare it with the page
Find the slip
Hand it in
Read it back with a finger under each letter
Fix it with backspace
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Join each line to the kind of slip it has.
1gald for glad
2saad for salad
3fflask for flask
Aa letter extra
Ba letter missing
Ctwo letters swapped
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Which things catch slips? Circle every one.
🤫reading it softly to yourself🖨️pressing print straight away📄comparing with the page☝️sliding a finger under each letter🖐️looking only at your hands
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The blue key at the top right is backspace, the key to tap to fix a slip.
TrueFalse
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A slip means you are a bad typist.
TrueFalse
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Tobi's salad sign says slad. What should he do?
press printtap backspace, put in the missing a, and read the line againhold backspace down
Copy and write
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Copy it. dad has a flask
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Write the three steps of the checking trick, in your own words.
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Answer key · Set A
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1read it back He pressed print straight away, without reading it back, so the slip reached the gate.
2True Flask is f, l, a, s, k. In falsk the l and the a are swapped.
3page Your reader sees the page, so a careful look is a gift to them.
42, 3, 5, 1, 4 Read, compare, find, fix, and only then hand it in.
51-C, 2-B, 3-A In gald the l and a swapped, saad has lost its l, and fflask has an extra f.
6reading it softly to yourself, comparing with the page, sliding a finger under each letter Reading softly, comparing and a finger under each letter all make your eyes slow down. Printing at once or watching your hands lets slips through.
7True Backspace rubs out the last letter, so you can put it right.
8False Everyone slips sometimes, even grown-ups. A slip is only a letter that is not right yet.
9tap backspace, put in the missing a, and read the line again Fix the missing letter with backspace, then read the line once more.
11Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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