STAAR Punctuation Practice

What are the directions asking you to do?

• Revise
• Edit
• Write to a prompt

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

• Change the comma to a question mark
• Delete the quotation marks afte the comma
• Change eagerly to eager
• Make no change

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

What change should be made in sentence 13?

• Change the comma after lumps to a period
• Change instructed to instructing
• Change stired to stirred
• No change should be made to sentence 13

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What is the correct way to write sentence 20?

• Otherwise, the pancakes would stick to the surface. And have a big mess to clean up.
• Otherwise, the pancakes would stick to the surface then we would have a big mess to clean up.
• Otherwise, the pancakes would stick to the surface, and we would have a big mess to clean up.
• The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

What change should be made in sentence 22?

• Change didn't to did'nt
• Insert a comma after pancake
• Change spreads out to spread out
• Sentence 22 should not be changed

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.2.1D

CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

What is the correct way to write sentences 24 and 25?

• My father was very clear about this. How long to wait before trying to flip the pancakes over.
• My father was very clear. About how long to wait before trying to flip the pancakes over.
• My father was very clear about this he told me how long to wait before trying to flip the pancakes over.
• My father was very clear about how long to wait before trying to flip the pancakes over.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2

How should sentence 29 be changed?

• Change scraped to scrapped
• Insert a comma after bubbles
• Change taught to teached
• Change correct to correctly

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 36?

• Change that to this
• Change takes to take
• Insert a comma after patience
• Change then to than

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A