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Directions:Date:Remember, trivial and redundant information is
unimportant and repeated information. Who needs it?Read the story. Rewrite the story on the lines below; omit the trivial and redundant
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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Marshall examined the scene of the theft. He looked around the place
where the chocolate bunny had disappeared. Sticky footprints led toward
the stairs. They weren’t human prints. Marshall only likes sour
candy balls. He never eats chocolate because it gives him a rash.
“I think it was a ghost!” declared Marshall’s sister Missy, the owner
of the missing chocolate. “I didn’t hear them come in or out, and I
was here the entire time. I was listening but I didn’t hear a thing.”
Marshall wrote that fact down in his notebook. He wrote in pen. He
likes to write in pen better than in pencil. It makes him feel more grown up.
Just as Marshall was finishing his notes, Buttercup, Missy’s cat, walked into the room. Her
face and paws were brown. “Look,” said Missy, “Buttercup has been playing in the mud.”