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Rhiannon is a little unsure how to explain what happens in a tornado drill. She repeats herself, uses “uhm” a lot, and changes her mind in the middle of sentences. People often do this when they’re talking. If she was giving the same information in writing, how would she do this? Write four pieces of advice based on what she says here:

But otherwise it’s like a scheduled day they’ll uhm, go on the announcements and they’ll say we’re under … uh, tornado drill as if it were real and then we will … uhm, when they … sound off the siren, we’ll go into our d- … uhm, assigned areas, …
like … uh, for me, for Yearbook, if I’m in Yearbook class, the l-, the siren will go off and we’ll leave the classroom … uhm, as a group in a single file … Supposed to be.
And then we’ll uhm, go into the cafeteria and sit on the … side walls or … try and just stay in there, that’s one of our safest spot.
Wherever you are in the c-, uhm, school, you go to the safest spot there is closest to you. So …

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