PIRATE’S TREASURE

Highland Park 3^rd graders edited this entire document, which comes pre-loaded with dozens & dozens of word-processing mistakes throughout the story, & with extra-tricky mistakes to fix toward the end. Have a look at what a mess this story started out as before 3^rd graders cleaned it all up!

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"Tensteps from theporchand twentystepsfrom the rosebushes," growled Bluebeard.

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This is wht Jimy heard in hs dream one nght. "There be trsure thre! Aawrgh."

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So the nexst dayi Jimmy began to ditg.

He dug unttil the hole waas deeep and the dirrt pile was hiigh.

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(DRAG & HIGHLIGHT OR ONE AT A TIME)

He kept diggingfff. The hole gottttt deepqqqer and thejjj dirt pile gotjkl higher.

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He dug until school the hole was deepest and books the dirt pile was backpack at its highest. He sighed.

"I'm too tired tired. I can't can’t dig anymore." Then he spied spied something...

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...buut itt waes onnly one of Woofy's bones. Instead of treasure, all Jimmy haSd waSs a doGg bone, a hole, and a bigg pille off dirrrt to fill it in with. He thought "That pirate liiied two mne!"

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(MISSING WORDS: saw, had, hands, biggest smile)

But when Jimmy's mother what he done, she clapped her and smiled the you’ve ever seen.

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(QUOTES AT BEGINNING & END, 1 APOSTROPHE, 3 COMMAS, 3 PERIODS, 1 $ SIGN)

Oh thank you Jimmy I always wanted a nice bush planted there and this is just right Heres 5.00 for digging that hole

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Hello

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Highland Park

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I like computers!

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Move every number down to make a list: 1^st 2^nd 3^rd 4^th 5^th 6^th 7^th 8^th 9^th 10^th

Move every word down to make a list: crawl walk run jump fly

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Move every sentence down to make a list: I can crawl. I can walk. I will run. I like to jump. I wish I could fly.

Move the first 3 sentences down together & the last 3 sentences down together to make 2 paragraphs: I can crawl quickly. I can walk pretty fast too. I will run super fast. I like to jump high. I wish I could fly high too. Oh well, I’ll just stay on the ground!

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(5)It was fun. (4)He was nice. (3)And I built him a tower. (2)and I pushed him. (1)So I hugged the baby.

THE END! ;-)