STAAR Practice Editing & Revising

(3) However, vinyl is making a comeback for many good reasons. (4) Teens should have been giving this earlier form of music recording a chance and experience vinyl records for themselves.

What change needs to be made in sentence 4?

• Change should have been giving to should give

• Change earlier to earliest

• Insert a comma after chance

• Change themselves to themselfs

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1C

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

(11) In addition, vinyl is not just about the music itself. (12) You might ask, “how can music be about something other than music?” (13) Vinyl is about the entire artistic experience, not just sticking earbuds in your ears.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 12?

• Delete the comma after ask

• Change how to How

• Change the question mark to a period

• No change is needed in sentence 12.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

(21) Also, the price of making and shipping the records can be steep. (22) Such a prolonged and expensive endeaver most likely would be undertaken only by someone who sees the value in this type of recording.

What change needs to be made in sentence 22?

• Change prolonged to prolonging

• Change endeaver to endeavor

• Change endeaver to endeavor

• No change is necessary.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

(4) Thousands of years old, the cenotes formed when limestone bedrock crumbled, creating sinkholes underneath. (5) The disintigration of limestone exposed secret underground pools of nearly pure water naturally filtered by the earth.

What change should be made in sentence 5?

• Change disintigration to disintegration

• Change exposed to expose

• Insert a comma after water

• Change filtered to filterred

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

(7) In Cenote Azul, the first cenote we visited, my parents, my grandparents, and I swam through water that seemed too blue to be real. (8) Underneath us, meandering through the same turquoise pool, was schools of tropical fish.

What change should be made in sentence 8?

• Change meandering to meanders

• Change turquoise to turquoys

• Delete the comma after pool

• Change was to were

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1F

(21) Our group thought Carolina was joking when she claimed she could make them sing for us, but when she tapped them, we heard what sounded like the words “Lol” and “Tun”—the name of the caves! (22) I cannot imagine that a concert at Carnegie hall would have been any better.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 22?

• Insert a comma after imagine

• Change hall to Hall

• Change would have been to would not have been

• Sentence 22 should not be changed.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

(4) Though the snooze button is intended to allow people a few extra minutes of sleep, it contributes to unhealthy patterns. (5) Most people think if they are tired when they first wake up that they must need more sleep. (6) They are mistaken when they conclude that any sleep is good sleep. (7) Sleeping is a process with different stages or cycles.

What is the most effective transition to add to the beginning of sentence 6?

• Even though

• In contrast

• Furthermore

• However

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

(16) The easiest option for those who still cannot resist the snooze button is to put the alarm on the other side of the room. (17) Having to get out of bed to turn it off changes the likelihood of hitting the snooze button.

• varies

• shifts

• controls

• decreases

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D