Major Grade: STAAR Countdown Editing Passage #8

The Italian National Protection agency has launched a program for a new breed of lifeguards – a canine rescue squad.

• Change agency to Agency

• Change has launched to have launched

• Insert a comma after program

• no change

Several branches of the Italian School of Canine Lifeguards, including the one in Civitavecchia teach dogs to paddle to the aid of swimmers in trouble.

• Change Several to Severel

• Insert a comma after Civitavecchia

• Change teach to teaches

• No changes

They are put to work guarding beaches or patrolling offshore aboard Italys coast-guard boats and helicopters.

• Insert a comma after beaches

• Change patrolling to patroling

• Change Italys to Italy’s

• no change

Which of the following is correctly written?

• And their innate heroism and love of challenged. These turn these well-trained dogs into first-class lifeguards.

• And their innate heroism and love of challenges turn these well-trained dogs into first-class lifeguards.

• And their innate heroism turn these well-trained dogs into first-class citizens, also it’s the love of challenges.

What change should be made to the following:

The head of one school explains that most dogs actually enjoy the expereince and “can’t wait to climb on the helicopter.”

• Change explains to explaining

• Change expereince to experience

• Change can’t to Can’t

• no change

What change needs to be made in the following:

The “lifedog” usually wears a special red harness and towed a buoy that the swimmer can grab.

• Change wears to wear’s

• Change towed to tows

• Change buoy to bouy

• none

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

It was time for the weekly fifth-grade volleyball game, an inevitible scene of mental anguish for me.

• Delete the comma

• Change inevitible to inevitable

• Change scene to seen

• No changes

What change should be made in the following:

She described her own adolesence, and I was shocked to learn that her experience had been similar to mine.

• Change adolesence to adolescence

• Delete and

• Change her to their

• No changes

I decided that I wasn’t going to allow the situation to ruin my chance of enjoying a traditional High School experience.

• Change that to something

• Change situation to sitaution

• Change High School to high school

• none

No team wanted the girl who dropped the ball, tripped over her own feet, and misses the easy serves.

• Insert a comma after girl

• Change tripped to she trips

• Change misses to missed

• Change serves to serve’s