STAAR Editing and Revising Practice

Revise the following sentence to improve word choice: The party was very fun and exciting.

• The party was very enjoyable and thrilling.

• The party was very uninteresting and monotonous.

• The party was very boring and dull.

• The party was very tiresome and lackluster.

Identify the error in the sentence: He dont know how to swim.

• Incorrect usage of 'dont' instead of 'don't'

• Incorrect grammar with 'dont' instead of 'do not'

• Incorrect spelling of 'dont' as 'dunt'

• Incorrect use of 'dont' instead of 'doesn't'

Identify the sentence that correctly uses an apostrophe: The cat's whiskers twitched in the sunlight.

• The cat whiskers twitched in the sunlight.

• The cats' whiskers twitched in the sunlight.

• The cats whiskers twitched in the sunlight

• The cat's whiskers twitched in the sunlight.

Which word choice is the most appropriate to use in the sentence: The book was _______ interesting.

• extremly

• B) extremely

• extremly

• extremly

Identify the error in the sentence: She have been studying for her exam all week.

• She had been studying for her exam all week.

• She has been studying for her exam all week.

• She has studying for her exam all week.

• She have studying for her exam all week.

Revise the following sentence to improve revising: The girl goed to the library to borrow some books.

• The girl went to the library to borrow some pencils.

• The girl went to the library to borrow some books.

• The girl goed to the library for some books.

• The girl goed to the library to return some books.

Identify the error in the sentence: We was planning to go to the beach this weekend.

• We were planning to go to the beach this weekend.

• We were planning to goes to the beach this weekend.

• We were planing to go to the beach this weekend.

• We is planning to go to the beach this weekend.

Choose the sentence with the correct use of quotation marks: The teacher said the test will be next Friday. The teacher said, 'The test will be next Friday.'

• D) The teacher said, The test will be next Friday.'

• C) The teacher said, The test will be next Friday.

• B) The teacher said, 'The test will be next Friday.'

• A) The teacher said, 'The test will be next Friday.'

Choose the sentence with the correct use of capitalization: A) i love to eat pizza. B) I love to eat pizza.

• i love to eat pizza.

• i Love to eat pizza

• I love to eat pizza

• B) I love to eat pizza.

What revision, if any, is needed in sentence 16?

• 1. Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring at the side of a box and struggling to decipher the precise order of operations required to make macaroni and cheese.

• Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring at the side of a box that struggled to decipher the precise order of operations to make macaroni and cheese and the requirements.

• 1. Julian stood over his aunt’s stove, staring and struggling to decipher the precise order of operations that were required to make macaroni and cheese on the side of a box.

• No change is needed.