STAAR Editing Practice -2024

(15) Mr. Owens, my Coach, insists that I also play in a competitive league to build my skills.

How does sentence 15 need to be changed?

• Change Coach to coach

• Delete the comma after Coach

• Change insists to insisting

• Sentence 15 does not need to be changed.

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CCSS.L.7.3A

(22) But it's not really fair to make him leave all the time, it's his room too.

What change should be made in sentence 22?

• Change fair to fare

• Delete the word But

• Change the comma to a semicolon

• Change too to to

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D

(5) "You need to work hard," dad insisted while picking up a calendar and looking at my school and sports schedule.

What change should be made in sentence 5?

• Change dad to Dad

• Delete the comma

• Change schedule to scedule

• No change needs to be made in sentence 5.

(6) As I shuffled through packet's of information about NJHS, first aid, and music courses, I came across something that stood out.

What change should be made in sentence 6?

• Change stood out to stands out

• Delete the comma after courses to a period

• Change packet's to packets

• The sentence does not need to be changed.

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CCSS.L.7.2A

(When Emma was born, mom and dad gave her the tiny room next to theirs.

How should sentence 7 be changed?

• Delete the comma

• Change mom and dad to Mom and Dad

• Change theirs to there's

• Sentence 7 should not be changed

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CCSS.L.7.3A

CCSS.L.7.4A

(4) For one thing, lighthouse keeper's don't fuel and maintain the lamp anymore.

How should sentence 4 be changed?

• Change keeper's to keepers

• Change maintain to maintane

• Change anymore to no more

• Sentence 4 should not be changed.

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CCSS.L.7.3A

(14) First the foundation of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse had to be excavatted.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 14?

• Change Lighthouse to lighthouse

• Insert a comma after Lighthouse

• Change excavatted to excavated

• Make no change

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CCSS.L.7.3A

CCSS.L.7.4A

(20) By the end of the first day, the lighthouse was more than ten feet away from it's original location.

How should sentence 20 be changed?

• Change was to is

• Change it's to its

• Change original to originel

• Delete the comma

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CCSS.L.7.4A

(29) I like to have friends over on the weekends, I would love to be able to talk with them without my younger siblings listening to all my conversations.

What change, if any, needs to be made it sentence 29?

• Change weekends to weekend's

• Change the comma to a semicolon

• Change conversations to convarsations

• Sentence 29 does not need to be changed

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CCSS.W.7.4

CCSS.W.7.5

(10) Instead of telling my Grandma, I asked the teacher to move me to the front of the room.

What change if any needs to be made in sentence 10?

• Change Grandma to grandma

• Change the comma to a period

• Change asked to ask

• No change needs to be made

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CCSS.L.7.3A