STAAR Editing Practice

What change should be made in sentence 3?

(3) Leaves brush against your windows and the chirps of birds echo through your room.

• Change Leaves to Leafes

• Change brush to brushes

• Insert a comma after windows

• Change through to threw

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 5?

(5) Some people like them so much that we created tree house hotels for guests.

• Change like to likes

• Change we to they

• Change created to creating

• No change needs to be made.

What change should be made in sentence 8?

(8) Tropical rain forests, thickly wilderness areas, or trees along an island shore are just a few places they are located.

• Change rain forests to rain forest’s

• Change thickly to thick

• Delete the comma after areas

• Insert a comma after shore

What change should be made in sentence 13?

(13) For example, a person in a rain forest will likely need to walks up wobbly narrow bridges and use ropes for support.

• Change need to needs

• Change walks to walk

• Change use to using

• No change is needed.

What change should be made to sentence 18?

(18) In Sweden their is a tree house hotel that is shaped like a bird’s nest.

• Change their to there

• Insert a comma after hotel

• Change shaped to shape

• Change bird’s to birds

What is the correct way to write sentence 22?

(22) The Frio River Treetop is closer to home it is located near Leakey, Texas.

• The Frio River Treetop is closer. To home, it is located near Leakey, Texas.

• The Frio River Treetop is closer to home. It is located near Leakey, Texas.

• The Frio River Treetop is closer to home as a result it is located, near Leakey, Texas.

• No change is needed.

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 26?

(26) This makes it a greatest spot for someone who is looking for a more active setting.

• Change makes to make

• Change greatest to great

• Insert a comma after spot

• No change needs to be made in this sentence.

What change is needed in sentence 28?

(28) You may prefer just to climb in a traditionul backyard tree house.

• Change prefer to prefers

• Change climb to climbing

• Change traditionul to traditional

• No change needs to be made.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 29?

(29) Either way, tree houses provide a great way to enjoy nature.

• Change provide to providing

• Change a to an

• Change enjoy to injoy

• No change is needed in this sentence.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 4?

(4) Dolphins even find ways to entertain themselfs under the water.

• Change find to found

• Change entertain to entertaining

• Change themselfs to themselves

• No change should be made in sentence 4.