Editing and Revising

(1) Tara had to much cake last night. (2) She is sick to her stomach this morning.

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

• Change the period to a question mark.

• Change had to has

• Change to to too

• Make no change

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CCSS.L.3.1G

(1) Tara had too much cake last night. (2) She is sick to her stomach this morning.

How could you combine sentences 1 and 2?

• Tara had too much cake. Last night she is sick to her stomach this morning.

• Sick to her stomach this morning, Tara had too much cake.

• Tara had too much cake last night, she is sick this morning.

• Tara had too much cake last night, so she is sick to her stomach this morning.

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CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

(5) Jenny and Haley walked there dogs together for two hours. (6) The dogs slept very well that night.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 5?

• Change Jenny and Haley to Them

• Change there to their

• Change dogs to dog’s

• Make no change

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.2D

(5) Jenny and Haley walked there dogs together for two hours. (6) The dogs slept very well that night.

What transition could be added to the beginning of sentence 6 to make it clearer?

• However,

• Therefore,

• In order to,

• Finally,

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CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.5.1A

(14) The monkey’s swung through the trees. (15) One of them fell on the ground.

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

• Change monkey’s to monkeys

• Change swung to swinged

• Add a comma after swung

• Make no change

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CCSS.L.3.2D

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

14) The monkeys swung through the trees. (15) One of them fell to the ground.

How could you combine sentences 14 and 15?

• The monkeys swung through the trees, one of them fell to the ground.

• One of the monkeys falling to the ground swung through the trees.

• As the monkeys swung through the trees, one of them fell to the ground.

• The monkeys on the ground swung and fell.

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CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.2.1F

(9) Annie sang a beautiful high note. (10) The crowd cheering wildly.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 10?

• Add a comma after cheering

• Change cheering to cheered

• Change the period to a question mark

• Make no change

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CCSS.L.4.1F

(9) Annie sang a beautiful high note. (10) The crowd cheered wildly.

What is the best transition to add in front of sentence 10?

• As a result,

• However,

• For example,

• In addition,

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CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

(22) While David folded laundry, his brother did the dishes. (23) They went outside to play.

What is the best transition to add to the beginning of sentence 23?

• Afterwards,

• Meanwhile,

• For example,

• However,

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CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.5.1A

Choose the sentence that is correctly punctuated.

• Whales are known to be the largest living animals in the world.

• The blue whale is the largest existing whale weighing 130 tons, and measuring 115 feet in length.

• Imagine the length of approximately three school buses parked end to end and you will have the size of a whale.

• Blue whales are known to be larger than any other dinosaur, that lived years ago.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.4.2C