Revising/Editing - April 12, 2023

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) Sebastian’s brother Carlos, and their mother joined him. (2) Carlos rested a notebook against the fence nearby and began writing in it. (3) Sebastian said “Look at how big that lion is!” (4) Carlos glanced up at the lion but he quickly returned his attention to the notebook. (5) Sebastian shook his head. (6) Why would anyone come to a zoo if not to see the animals? (7) He shrugged, and turned back to enjoying the big cats.

What change should be made to sentence 1?

• Change mother to Mother

• Change him to them

• Delete the comma after Carlos

• Insert a comma after brother

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) Sebastian’s brother Carlos, and their mother joined him. (2) Carlos rested a notebook against the fence nearby and began writing in it. (3) Sebastian said “Look at how big that lion is!” (4) Carlos glanced up at the lion but he quickly returned his attention to the notebook. (5) Sebastian shook his head. (6) Why would anyone come to a zoo if not to see the animals? (7) He shrugged, and turned back to enjoying the big cats.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 3?

• Insert a comma after said

• Change big to bigger

• Change lion to Lion

• No change is needed.

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Read this paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) Once a longnose spider crab has put together a good suit of “seaweed armor” to protect itself, it is set for a while. (2) The seaweed will continue to grow even while it’s stuck to the crab’s back. (3) The seaweed continues to grow even while it protects the crab. (4) But when a crab molts, or sheds its old shell, it is time to redecorate. (5) This time, however, the crab may not have to work as hard to find its decorations. (6) A crab often uses the seaweed from its old shell to decorate its new one. (7) Basically, the crab recycles!

There is an unnecessary sentence in this paragraph. Which sentence should be deleted?

• Sentence 1

• Sentence 3

• Sentence 5

• Sentence 7

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) My family lives in a small towns in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. (2) It’s only the third biggest Great Lake, but it’s enormous. (3) The lake stretches from the distance. (4) The lake looks as big as an ocean. (5) In fact, Lake Michigan gets its name from an ojibwa Indian word that means “large lake.”

(6) On Saturday mornings, my mom and I go canoing on the lake. (7) We head to the dock early while the air is cool and the swimmers and boaters are still asleep.

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

• Change Lake to lake

• Change shores to shore

• Change towns to town

• A      Insert a comma after Lake

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.K.1B

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) My family lives in a small towns in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. (2) It’s only the third biggest Great Lake, but it’s enormous. (3) The lake stretches from the distance. (4) The lake looks as big as an ocean. (5) In fact, Lake Michigan gets its name from an ojibwa Indian word that means “large lake.”

(6) On Saturday mornings, my mom and I go canoing on the lake. (7) We head to the dock early while the air is cool and the swimmers and boaters are still asleep.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 3?

• Change lake to Lake

• Change from to into

• Change stretches to stretch

• No change is needed.

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CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) My family lives in a small towns in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. (2) It’s only the third biggest Great Lake, but it’s enormous. (3) The lake stretches from the distance. (4) The lake looks as big as an ocean. (5) In fact, Lake Michigan gets its name from an ojibwa Indian word that means “large lake.”

(6) On Saturday mornings, my mom and I go canoing on the lake. (7) We head to the dock early while the air is cool and the swimmers and boaters are still asleep.

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

• Change large lake to Large Lake

• Change its to it’s

• Delete the comma after fact

• Change ojibwa to Ojibwa

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) My family lives in a small towns in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. (2) It’s only the third biggest Great Lake, but it’s enormous. (3) The lake stretches from the distance. (4) The lake looks as big as an ocean. (5) In fact, Lake Michigan gets its name from an ojibwa Indian word that means “large lake.”

(6) On Saturday mornings, my mom and I go canoing on the lake. (7) We head to the dock early while the air is cool and the swimmers and boaters are still asleep.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 6?

• Change mornings to Mornings

• Change canoing to canoeing

• Change mom to Mom

• Delete the comma after morning

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CCSS.L.2.2C

Read this paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) The wheels of the skates were mounted in a frame, and she planned to take the frame off of one skate and attach it to her board. (2) Each time she tested the board, it would fall over before she had gone two feet. (3) Rosa thought this would be simple, but it was much more difficult than it appeared. (4) As she tightened the first screw to secure the frame to the board, she heard a cracking sound. (5) She stopped and removed it before splitting the board completely. (6) Next, she tried strapping the wheels on with duct tape; and that, to put it simply, did not work out well. (7) Then the wheels would slide sideways, and she’d have to tape them in place again.

Where is the best place to move sentence 2?

• After sentence 4

• After sentence 5

• After sentence 6

• After sentence 7

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.3

Read this paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

 

(1) The wheels of the skates were mounted in a frame, and she planned to take the frame off of one skate and attach it to her board. (2) Each time she tested the board, it would fall over before she had gone two feet. (3) Rosa thought this would be simple, but it was much more difficult than it appeared. (4) As she tightened the first screw to secure the frame to the board, she heard a cracking sound. (5) She stopped and removed it before splitting the board completely. (6) Next, she tried strapping the wheels on with duct tape; and that, to put it simply, did not work out well. (7) Then the wheels would slide sideways, and she’d have to tape them in place again.

What change can be made to improve the clarity of sentence 5?

• Change it to the board

• Change it to the frame

• Change it to the wheel

• J       Change it to the screw

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D