STAAR Review Editing

What change should be made in sentence 3?

• Change Leaves to Leafes

• Change brush to brushes

• Insert a comma after windows

• Change through to threw

What is the correct way to write sentence 22?

• The Frio River Treetop is closer. To home, it is located near Leakey, Texas.

• The Frio River Treetop is closer to home. It is located near Leakey, Texas.

• The Frio River Treetop is closer to home as a result it is located, near Leakey, Texas.

• No change is needed.

What is the correct way to write sentence 10?

• One kind of an air bubble is shaped like a circle and called a bubble ring. Happening to be the perfect sea toy.

• One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle, and called a bubble ring. Then it happens to be the perfect sea toy.

• One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle, called a bubble ring it happens to be the perfect sea toy.

• One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle. It is called a bubble ring, and it happens to be the perfect sea toy.

How should sentence 11 be changed?

• Change Scientists to scientists

• Insert a comma after filmed

• Change playing to play

• Change rings to ring

What is the best combination of the two sentences?

• She wanted to go to prom and she never asked for permission.

• She wanted to go to prom; never asked for permission

• She wanted to go to prom but she never asked for permission.

• Although she wanted to go to prom, she never asked for permission.

Occasionaly, when we don't get what we want, something even better is waiting for us around the corner!

• Change Occasionaly to Occasionally

• Delete the comma after want

• Change even better to even more better

• No change needs to be made

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 6 and 7?

• My own sister is having a hard time in math attending one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school.

• My own sister attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school although she is having a hard time in math.

• My own sister, who attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school, is having a hard time in math.

• My own sister attends one of the elementary schools that feeds into our high school, she is having a hard time in math.

Which option is the best option to combine the two sentences below? The students are quiet. The students are taking a test.

• The students are quiet the students are taking a test.

• The students are quiet, they are taking a test.

• The students are quiet because, they are taking a test.

• The students are quiet because they are taking a test.

The conjunction but is used to -

• join two similar thoughts together

• join two opposite or surprising thoughts together

• show that you have choices

• explain the reason that something happened

Choose the best COORDINATING CONJUNCTION to complete the sentence.
HINT: FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
The spider could not move fast, ___ it had only seven legs instead of eight.

• But

• For

• Or

• So

• Yet