STAAR Revising/Editing

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 3?

• Insert a comma after them

• Delete and

• Change places too dense to places to dense

• No change should be made.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 7?

• A Change wasn’t having to weren’t having

• B Change much luck to no luck

• C Insert a comma after luck

• D Make no change

What change should be made in sentence 8?

• Change while watching to he was watching

• Delete the comma after campsite

• Change has to had

• Change idea to ideal

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 15?

• Insert a comma after cameras

• Change hooked to hooking

• Change elephants tusks to elephants’ tusks

• No change is needed.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 17?

• Change wondered to wandered

• Change wheather to whether

• Change clear to clearer

• No change needs to be made.

What change needs to be made in sentence 19?

• A Change were to was

• B Change impressive to impresive

• C Change the comma to a semicolon

• D Change realistic to realism

What is the correct way to write sentence 22?

• A Curious monkeys reached out for the tusk-cams. Deer standing still and allowing the cameras to film them.

• B Curious monkeys reached out for the tusk-cams, deer stood still and allowed the cameras to film them.

• C Curious monkeys reached out for the tusk-cams. While deer stood still and allowed the cameras to film them.

• D Curious monkeys reached out for the tusk-cams, while deer stood still and allowed the cameras to film them.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 25?

• Change the comma after added to a period

• Change It to it

• Change world to World

• No change should be made in sentence 25.

If the question starts with "what change", you will be...

• Revising the sentence.

• Editing the sentence.

• Using a dictionary.

• Analyzing the sentence.

On the Revising and Editing section of the STAAR, you should always read the whole passage.

• True

• False