STAAR Editing Review

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

(6) "What do I do first," I asked eagerly.

• Change the comma to a question mark

• Delete the quotation marks after the comma

• Change eagerly to eager

• Make no change

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

What change should be made in sentence 13?

(13) "Make sure that you don't leave any lumps," Dad instructed while I stired the mixture.

• Change the comma after lumps to a period

• Change instructed to instructing

• Change stired to stirred

• No change should be made in sentence 13.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.8.1C

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.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

How should sentence 29 be changed?

(29) While I scraped my impatience off the griddle, Dad showed me what he meant by "solid bubbles" and then taught me how to flip the pancakes correct.

• Change scraped to scrapped

• Insert a comma after bubbles

• Change taught to teached

• Change correct to correctly

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

What change needs to be made in sentence 36?

(36) I learned that cooking takes more patience and attention then I had ever dreamed!

• Change that to this

• Change takes to take

• Insert a comma after patience

• Change then to than

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What change should be made in sentence 2?

(2) I look forward to the recess bell like everyone else, but every time I go Outside, I think about how recess could be even better.

• Delete but

• Change Outside to outside

• Change better to more better

• No change should be made.

What change should be made in sentence 7?

(7) Some of my friends play soccer or football on the field, but these unorganized games usually consist of one or two kids hogging the ball and everyone else just running around chassing them.

• Change play to plays

• Change soccer or football to Soccer or Football

• Change chassing to chasing

• No change should be made in sentence 7.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

What change should be made in sentence 8?

(8) Other boy's and girl's are so eager for a challenge that they end up breaking rules by climbing on restricted parts of the jungle gyms, such as the roofs and slide covers.

• Change boy's and girl's to boys and girls

• Change are so eager to is so eager

• Change they end up to you end up

• Change by climbing to they climb on

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1D

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 19?

(19) Some people might argue that a rock-climbing wall is dangerous and that it would require to much adult supervision.

• Insert a comma after dangerous

• Delete and that

• Change to much to too much

• Make no change

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

What change should be made in sentence 23?

(23) With proper instruction and supervision, the fourth and fifth graders at our school would really benefit from the addition of a rock-climbing wall to our playground.

• Change proper to propper

• Change graders to grader's

• Change from to it would be from

• No change should be made in sentence 23.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1C

CCSS.L.9-10.1B