STAAR Revising and Editing Task Cards

• Delete the comma after long

• Delete the quotation marks after Samantha and add quotation marks after the exclamation point

• Change the period to an exclamation point

• Make no change

• Add a period after book

• Change said to Said

• Add a comma after book

• No change is needed

• Quickly I jumped up, I tried to grab my books, but

  they fell out of my hands.

• Quickly I jumped up, and tried to grab my books,

  but they fell out of my hands.

• Quickly I jumped up, and tried to grab my

  books. But falling out of my hands.

• The sentences are correct.

• Ella suggested we go to the library, we stopped at the store along the way.

• Ella suggested we go to the library and stop at the store along the way.

• Ella suggesting we go to the library and stop at the store along the way.

• Correct as written.

• Change showing to showed

• Change that to something

• Change were to was

• Make no change

• Change help to helping

• Change hands and knees to hand’s and knee’s

• Change dropped to droped

• No change is needed

• Delete the comma

• Change and to I was

• Change hungry to hungrey

• The sentence is correct.

• Change took to tooken

• Change soup to soop

• Change Grandmother to grandmother

• The sentence is correct as written.

• Change important to more important

• Change an to a

• Change saturday to Saturday

• The sentence is correct.

• Change most beautiful to more beautiful

• Change Maggies’ to Maggie’s

• Change dance to danse

• No revision is needed