STAAR Prep for Writing

When it was time to add the sugar, I grabed a

canister that was full of something white.

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

• Delete the comma

• Change grabed to grabbed

• Change that to it

• No change should be made.

Grinning from ear to ear, we brought are gift to Mom.

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

• Change Grinning to Grining

• Change brought to brung

• Change are to our

• No change should be made.

Mom, Chloe, and me all looked at one another.

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

• Delete the comma after Mom

• Change me to I

• Change looked to looking

• No change should be made.

First, if your going to cook, you need to pay attention to the ingredients.

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

• Change your to you’re

• Change attention to atention

• Change ingredients to ingredient’s

• No change should be made.

This can save you a lot of embarrassment later.

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

• Change This to Which

• Change save to safe

• Change later to latter

• No change needs to be made.

Mom’s birthday present didn’t turn out as we had planned but she knew that we loved her.

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

• Insert a comma after planned

• Delete but

• Change she knew to they knew

• No change should be made.

(1) Besides, I don’t think we would have laughed nearly as hard. (2) If our cookies had been just perfect.

What is the correct way to write sentences 1 and 2?

• Besides, I don’t think we would have laughed nearly as hard if our cookies had been just perfect.

• Besides, I don’t think. That we would have laughed nearly as hard if our cookies had been just perfect.

• Besides, I don’t think that we would have. Laughed nearly as hard if our cookies had been just perfect.

• Sentences 1 and 2 are written correctly in the story.