Question

name
date
a classroom
story 18 part 5 of 5
\washingtons lost treasure\
part 5 of 5: treasure hunters
directions

1. read the story
2. find the five errors
3. mark the errors using the key

back in principal meltons office, cooper closed gently the
diary. he turned to face malina and rodgers. their mouths were
hanging open too.
\wait,\ said rodgers. \arent saplings baby--\
\trees,\ interrupted principal melton. he was still snapping
the plastic orange gun at the pixelated ducks on the tv screen.
\saplings are baby trees, right?\
\thomas buried the treasure in the haunted forest,\ said
malina, voicing exactly what cooper and rodgers were thinking.
\i mean, before it was the haunted forest. thomas buried the
treasure, then he planted the haunted forest around it. to protect
it. those saplings he mentioned, theyre still there. the treasure
might be too.\
\weve got to find it,\ cooper said. \before herman does.\
the trio thanked principal melton and raced out of his
office. in their excitement, they forgot to take thomass diary.
they left it there, leaving it on a table next to meltons baseball.
they also didnt notice the window! it was cracked open, letting
the warm april breeze inside. two other eighth graders were
crouched outside it, peering into the office. eric fincher and
michael c. livingston had seen and heard everything.
key
rectangle - spelling error
circle with dot - add punctuation
underline - capitalize letter
x - remove word
oval - wrong word
arrow - move word
checklist
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questions
who was spying on cooper, malina, and rodgers? why is
the important?

Explanation:

1. The story states two eighth graders, Eric Fincher and Wellington C. Livingston, were eavesdropping outside the cracked window and heard everything the group discussed.
2. This is important because they now know the secret about the treasure's location (near the saplings in the forest), creating a new conflict as they may compete with Cooper, Malina, and Rodgers to find it first, or interfere with their plan.

Answer:

1. Eric Fincher and Wellington C. Livingston were spying on them; they were eavesdropping through the cracked office window and heard all the details about the treasure's location.
2. This is important because they now possess the same secret information about the treasure, meaning they could race to find it before the main group, or sabotage their efforts, setting up a new obstacle for Cooper, Malina, and Rodgers.