Revising and Editing Pre-Assessment

Mom surprised us all when she declared, "let's all go get pizza!"

• Delete the quotation marks

• Change let's to Let's

• Remove the comma after declared

• The sentence is correct.

Joseph said he knew his uncles had thrown a party for theirselves.

• Change knew to new

• Change thrown to threw

• Change theirselves to themselves

• No change is needed.

Natalies' flower was the most beautiful I had ever seen.

• Change most beautiful to more beautiful

• ^{Change Natalies' to Natalies's}

• Change flower to flour

• No change is needed

Mrs. Watson said that our class would go on a field trip on March, 2 2015.

• Delete the comma after March and insert it after 2

• Add quotatiion marks before our and after 2015.

• Delete the comma after March

• The sentence is correct.

When my Dad handed me the bottle of ketchup, I shook it thoroughly to mix it.

• Change shook to shaked

• Change bottle to bottel

• Change Dad to dad

• The sentence is correct as written

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important part of our monday morning assembly.

• ^{Change important to more important}

• Change an to a

• ^{Change monday to Monday}

• The sentence is correct

Why did the little puppy dog lick its sore paw.

• Change its to it's

• Change sore to soar

• Change puppy to puppey

• Change the period to a question mark

What is the best place to insert this sentence?

• after sentence 1

• after sentence 2

• after sentence 10

• after sentence 15

Bo wants to replace sentence 12 with a better topic sentence. Which of these sentences would be the best replacement for sentence 12?

• The water from your roof might contain harmful bacteria, so you should never drink it.

• Rain barrels often have screens over the top to let water in but keep insects out.

• If you install a rain barrel, you can catch rain and use it in many ways.

• The water fro m a rain barrel can be used to moisten clay for art project.

Which sentence should be removed from this selection?

• sentence 6

• sentence 7

• sentence 13

• sentence 14