STAAR Editing Practice: Waterspouts

(1) A waterspout is a weak tornado and It forms over water.

What change should be made in sentence 1?

• Change and It forms to and it forms

• Change tornado to tornadoe

• Change tornado and it forms to tornado as it forms

  
  

• No change is needed.

  
  

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

(9) Both kinds of weather require attention because they can be dangerous to mens, women, children and animals.

What is the correct way to write sentence 9?

•  Change animals to animal’s

• Change women to womans

• Change children to childs

  
  

  
  

• Change mens to men

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.9

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RL.1.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

(2) It can happen on the ocean, or it can happen on smaller bodys of water, such as lakes.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2?

• Change bodys to bodies

• Change bodys to boodies

• Change ocean to oceans

• No change is needed.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

(3) Waterspouts are most common in the gulf of Mexico.

What change should be made in sentence 3 ?

• Change gulf of Mexico to gulf of mexico
  

• Change gulf of Mexico to GULF of Mexico

• Change gulf of Mexico to gulf of California

• Change gulf of Mexico to Gulf of Mexico

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

(5) Waterspouts can pick things up and drop them in other places.

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

• Change pick things up to pike things up

• Change pick things up to place things up

• Change pick things up to pick thangs up

• No change is needed.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

(7) Wild whether comes in many forms.

What change should be made in sentence 7?

• Change whether to water

• Change many to mani

• Change whether to weather

• Change forms to froms

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.3