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

• True

• False

What answers in the revising and editing section can be automatically removed?

• Run-ons

• Long sentences

• Fragments

• Run-ons & Fragments

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CCSS.L.4.1F

In the Revising and Editing section, what should you highlight?

• The main idea of the passage.

• Words you don't know.

• Sentences referenced in the questions.

• The most important sentences within the passage.

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Correct answers can only be the sentences that are correctly punctuated.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.K.2B

This may have been one of the reasons how the design failed.

The word how does not appropriately connect the two clauses in sentence 7. Which word should replace the word how?

• when

• where

• whether

• why

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CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

What is the BEST way to combine sentences 16 and 17?

• Some people picked food out of their teeth with their knives, considered rude to do during a meal.

• Although considered rude to do during a meal, some people picked food out of their teeth with their knives.

• Some people picked food out of their teeth with their knives, while this was considered rude to do during a meal.

• Some people picked food out of their teeth with their knives, because this was considered rude to do during a meal.

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

However, now that I play soccer so much, I appreciate that Mom serves us good meals because I know it’s important for a healthy body.
Look at sentence 17. The word good does not express what Clarissa was trying to say. Which word could BEST replace good and help Clarissa improve the meaning of this sentence?

• delicious

• fresh

• generous

• nutritious

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

Have you ever seen a crab the size of a garbage can? I have, and I'm glad it was in a photograph! The photograph showed a coconut crab, which is the largest arthropod living on land. An arthropod is an animal with a hard shell and no spine. Beetles are arthropods and so are crabs.
What is the BEST way to revise sentence 5?

• Arthropods are beetles and crabs.

• Beetles and crabs, they are arthropods.

• Both beetles and crabs are arthropods.

• Beetles are like crabs and are arthropods.

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CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

If the question starts with "What is the best way...", what type of question will it be?

• Editing

• Defining

• Revising

• None of the above

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

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

• True

• False