Editing STAAR

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 2?

• Change “being” to “I am”

• Insert a comma after childhood

• Change plays to playing

• Sentence 2 should not be changed.

What is the correct way to write sentence 5?

• I pull gently at its crisp brown shell, the aroma of its gooey sweetness that teases my nostrils.

• As I pull gently at its crisp brown shell, the aroma of its gooey sweetness teases my nostrils.

• Pulling gently at its crisp brown shell, the aroma of its gooey sweetness teasing my nostrils.

• When I pull gently at its crisp brown shell, and the aroma of its gooey sweetness teasing my nostrils.

How should sentence be changed?

• Insert comma after grass

• Change reminds to reminding

• Change playing to play

• Change Soccer to soccer

What change, if any, is needed in sentence 18?

• Insert a comma after way

• Change processed to has processed

• Change centers' to centers

• Sentence 18 should not be changed

What change, if any, needs to be made to sentence 20?

• Delete the comma

• Insert a comma after today

• Change innocent to inocent

• Make no change to sentence 20

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 1?

• Change Organization to organization

• Change the colon to a comma

• change species to species'

• No change is needed in sentence 1

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 11?

• Delete since

• change accustomed to acustomed

• change to trying to to try

• no change is needed in this sentence

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 14?

• change Doing to When we do

• delete the comma after though

• change preferances to preferences

• change simply to simple

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 18?

• change whose to who's

• change brought to bringing

• delete the comma after try

• no change is needed in sentence 18