Choosing a Dog (2018 STAAR Writing Test)

What change needs to be made in sentence 4?

• A - Insert a comma after room

• B - Delete but

• C - Change you to they

• D - No change needs to be made

How should sentence 5 be changed?

• F - Change insists to insisted

• G - Insert hardly after wouldn’t

• H - Change hair to no hair

• J - Sentence 5 should not be changed.

How should sentence 17 be changed?

• A - Insert a comma after shelter

• B - Change were to was

• C - Change availible to available

• D - Sentence 17 should not be changed.

What is the correct way to write sentences 20 and 21?

• F - The dog jumped up to greet them, sending bits of fur into the air.

• G - The dog jumped up to greet them. Which sent bits of fur into the air.

• H - The dog jumped up to greet them, this sent bits of fur into the air.

• J - The sentences are written correctly in the story.

What change should be made in sentence 28?

• A - Change spun to spinned

• B - Insert a comma after circles

• C - Change obnoxiously to obnoxously

• D - Delete the quotation marks

How should sentence 34 be changed?

• F - Change led to lead

• G - Change more quieter to quieter

• H - Insert a comma after kennel

• J - Sentence 34 should not be changed.

What is the correct way to write sentence 35?

• A - Resting on a blanket was a medium-size dog. Who had curly white hair and floppy ears.

• B - Resting on a blanket, a medium-size dog. She had curly white hair and floppy ears.

• C - Resting on a blanket, a medium-size dog with curly white hair and floppy ears.

• D - Resting on a blanket was a medium-size dog with curly white hair and floppy ears.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 44?

• F - Change delicately to delicatly

• G - Change rised to rose

• H - Change and to she

• J - No change needs to be made in this sentence.