Revise and Edit STAAR Questions

Choose the sentence with correct use of commas.

• If you do well on STAAR test it will prove you worked hard all year long.

• If, you do well on STAAR test it will prove you worked hard all year long.

• If you do well on STAAR test, it will prove you worked hard all year long.

Choose the correctly written sentence.

• Since she forgot to revise and edit, her essay received a low score.

• Since, she forgot to revise and edit her essay received a low score.

• Since she forgot to revise and edit her essay, received a low score.

Choose the correctly written sentence.

• After I heard about the upcoming parade I wanted to be the first in line.

• After I heard, about the upcoming parade I wanted to be the first in line.

• After I heard about the upcoming parade, I wanted to be the first in line.

What is the MOST effective revision to make in sentence 23?

• In a panic I ransacked our recycle bin, pulling out brown cardboard boxes, paper towel tubes, and paper scraps that I hastily glued together.

• In a panic I ransacked our recycle bin, pulling out brown cardboard boxes, paper towel tubes, and there were paper scraps that I hastily and quickly glued together.

• In a panic I ransacked our recycle bin, hastily and quickly gluing together what I pulled out, which was brown cardboard boxes, paper towel tubes, and paper scraps.

• In a panic I ransacked our recycle bin, pulling out and removing brown cardboard boxes, paper towel tubes, and paper scraps for hastily gluing together.

What is the BEST revision to make in this sentence?

• I was also nervous, I was worrying about poisonous snakes.

• I was nervous, too also, but I was worrying about poisonous snakes.

• I was nervous, too, but I was worrying about poisonous snakes.

• I was nervous and was also worrying about poisonous snakes, too.

Choose the best written sentence.

• My mother forgot to lock the door to the backyard; however, the dog escaped from the yard.

• My mother forgot to lock the door to the backyard; furthermore, the dog escaped from the yard.

• My mother forgot to lock the door to the backyard; consequently, the dog escaped from the yard.

True or False: You should revise and edit before you type your final copy AND after you type your final copy.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What is the big difference between revising and editing?

• Revising involves big changes, and editing can be done by a computer.

• They are about the same

• One is more important

• Revising is double checking your writing, and editing is fixing what you checked.

Choose the sentence with correct use of commas.

• A) The teacher said, "Please, sit down."

• B) The teacher said "Please, sit down."

• C) The teacher, said "Please sit down."

• D) The teacher said, "Please sit, down."

Choose the correctly written sentence.

• A) Although it was raining, we decided to go for a walk.

• B) Although, it was raining we decided to go for a walk.

• C) Although it was raining we decided, to go for a walk.

• D) Although it was raining, we decided to go, for a walk.