4th grade STAAR Writing

Shoe manufacturers use high tech materials to make shoes that are good for them.
You can make this sentence better by changing THEM to - 

• sneakers
• others
• large companies
• people's feet

"I am a clown fish," a striped orange and white thing said with a giggle."
How can this sentence be changed?

• Change striped to stripped
• Change said to says
• Delete the quotation marks at the end of the sentence.
• Make no change

The shrimp swam after the clown fish, the coral cheered, waving its arms wildly.
What is the correct way to rite this sentence?

• The shrimp swam after the clown fish.  The coral cheering and waving its arms wildly.
• The shrimp swam after the clown fish, and the coral cheered, it waved its arms wildly.
• The shrimp swam after the clown fish, and the coral cheered.  Waving its arms wildly.
• The shrimp swam after the clown fish.  The coral cheered, waving its arms wildly.

Its delicate stem became a woody trunk and its bare branches were soon filled with pointy pine needles.  
How can this sentence be changed?

• Insert a comma after trunk
• Change bare to bear
• Change filled to fill
• Make no change

By the end of the Summer, the tiny sprout had become the first new tree in a brand new forest.
What change needs to be made to this sentence?  

• Insert a comma after tree
• Change had become to becoming
• Change Summer to summer
• Make no change

Bright red berrys began to grow on shrubs, and tiny wildflowers started to dot the landscape.
What change needs to be made to this sentence?

• Delete and
• Change berrys to berries
• Change wildflowers to wildflower's
• Make no change

Woodpeckers pecked at bugs in the dead trees, and blue jays plucked juicy fruit from live ones. 
What change needs to be made to this sentence?

• Change pecked to peeked
• Delete the comma
• Change pluck to pluk
• Make no change

As the tree grew, it watched a new forest sprung up all around them.  
What change should be made to this sentence?

• Change grew to growed
• Change sprung to spring
• Change then to it
• Make no change