Remember: A slip is only not right yet. Breathe, tap backspace back to the slip, and type on.
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Rosa and BexRosa was making a birthday card for her Opa. She typed and typed, and then, oh no! A letter in the middle of the line was not right. She jabbed at the keys, hard and wild, and now there were even more letters! Pebble the tortoise plodded up slowly, and Rosa took one big breath. A slip was not a bad thing, she thought, just something not right yet. Then she spotted a key with an arrow on it. It was backspace, and Rosa called it Bex. Bex nibbles the last letter first. Rosa tapped Bex three times, tap, tap, tap, and the slip was gone. Then she typed the letters again, careful and calm.
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What made Rosa's slip worse?
taking a breathtapping backspacejabbing at the keys
2
Rosa decided that a slip is a bad thing.
TrueFalse
3
Tap backspace once and it rubs out the letter you typed.
firstlastbiggest
The calm fix
Breathe, tap back to the slip, type on.
4
The blank blue key is at the top right corner. What is its name?
enterspace barbackspace
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Number the calm fix, first to last.
Take a calm breath
Look at the line
Type the letters again
Tap backspace back to the slip
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Which are calm ways to fix a slip? Circle every one.
🌬️taking a breath💥jabbing at every key👆tapping backspace once and looking⏬holding backspace down for ages🎯going back only as far as the slip
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If you hold backspace down, it rubs out one letter and then stops.
TrueFalse
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A slip is in the middle of a line. Where should you stop tapping backspace?
at the start of the lineright at the slipbefore you tap at all
9
Join each key to its job.
1backspace
2space bar
3enter
Astarts a new line
Brubs out the last letter
Cmakes a gap
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Jun made a slip near the start of a line, and he tapped backspace once. What should he do?
leave the slip therestart a new pagekeep tapping back to the slip, then type the rest again
Copy and write
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Copy it. half a salad
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Write what you do when you slip, in your own words.
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Answer key · Set A
Fixing mistakes with backspace
1jabbing at the keys Jabbing made even more letters on the page. A calm breath helped, and so did backspace.
2False She thought a slip was not a bad thing, just something not right yet.
3last Backspace starts at the end and nibbles the last letter you typed.
4backspace Backspace is the key with an arrow, in the top corner. Enter is the other labelled key.
51, 4, 3, 2 Breathe first, tap back only to the slip, type on again, and then look.
6taking a breath, tapping backspace once and looking, going back only as far as the slip A breath, one tap and a look, and going back only to the slip are calm. Jabbing and holding backspace down make a mess.
7False Hold it down and it keeps munching and munching, so tap and look instead.
8right at the slip Go back only as far as the slip. The good letters after it get rubbed out too, so you type them again.
91-B, 2-C, 3-A Backspace rubs out, the space bar makes a gap and enter starts a new line.
10keep tapping back to the slip, then type the rest again It takes more taps, but it is the same calm fix: back to the slip, then type on.
12Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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