WorksheetsSTAAR Editing Practice -2024
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
(15) Mr. Owens, my Coach, insists that I also play in a competitive league to build my skills.
How does sentence 15 need to be changed?
Change Coach to coach
Delete the comma after Coach
Change insists to insisting
Sentence 15 does not need to be changed.
(22) But it's not really fair to make him leave all the time, it's his room too.
What change should be made in sentence 22?
Change fair to fare
Delete the word But
Change the comma to a semicolon
Change too to to
(5) "You need to work hard," dad insisted while picking up a calendar and looking at my school and sports schedule.
What change should be made in sentence 5?
Change dad to Dad
Delete the comma
Change schedule to scedule
No change needs to be made in sentence 5.
(6) As I shuffled through packet's of information about NJHS, first aid, and music courses, I came across something that stood out.
What change should be made in sentence 6?
Change stood out to stands out
Delete the comma after courses to a period
Change packet's to packets
The sentence does not need to be changed.
(When Emma was born, mom and dad gave her the tiny room next to theirs.
How should sentence 7 be changed?
Delete the comma
Change mom and dad to Mom and Dad
Change theirs to there's
Sentence 7 should not be changed
(4) For one thing, lighthouse keeper's don't fuel and maintain the lamp anymore.
How should sentence 4 be changed?
Change keeper's to keepers
Change maintain to maintane
Change anymore to no more
Sentence 4 should not be changed.
(14) First the foundation of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse had to be excavatted.
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 14?
Change Lighthouse to lighthouse
Insert a comma after Lighthouse
Change excavatted to excavated
Make no change
(20) By the end of the first day, the lighthouse was more than ten feet away from it's original location.
How should sentence 20 be changed?
Change was to is
Change it's to its
Change original to originel
Delete the comma
(29) I like to have friends over on the weekends, I would love to be able to talk with them without my younger siblings listening to all my conversations.
What change, if any, needs to be made it sentence 29?
Change weekends to weekend's
Change the comma to a semicolon
Change conversations to convarsations
Sentence 29 does not need to be changed
(10) Instead of telling my Grandma, I asked the teacher to move me to the front of the room.
What change if any needs to be made in sentence 10?
Change Grandma to grandma
Change the comma to a period
Change asked to ask
No change needs to be made
(33) The ones who did said things like "Cool glasses" and "Wow, you look good in those! (34) Not one person made fun of me.
What change needs to be made in sentence 33?
Change said to say
Insert a period after glasses
Change Wow to wow
Insert quotations marks after the exclamation point
(35) I couldn't hardly believe it!
What change should be made in sentence 35?
Change couldn't to could'nt
Delete hardly
Change believe to beleive
No change should be made in sentence 35.
(1) For more than 120 years, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse has been warning ship Captains of shallow sandbars off the coast of North Carolina.
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 11?
Change has been warning to have been warning
Change Captains to captains
Change off the coast to of the coast
No change should be made in this sentence.
(42) And when my brothers started to complain, they got nasty looks from both my mother and I.
How should sentence 42 be changed?
Change they to he
Change nasty to nastier
Insert a comma after looks
Change I to me
(3) Scientists are still trying to fully understand this major organ, but we do know that different parts of the brain control different body functions.
What change, if any, should be made in sentence 3?
Change Scientists to Scientists'
Delete the comma after organ
Change we to they
No change needs to be made in this sentence.
(7) It's main functions are to control your balance and to enable your muscles to work together.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 7?
Change It's to Its
Change are to is
Change balance to balence
NO change needs to be made in this sentence.
(24) With all its intricacies, the human brain is a sensative and delicate organ.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 24?
Change intricacies to intracacies
Change sensative to sensitive
Change delicate to delacate
Sentence 24 does not need to be changed.
(13) I was sure that I would look terrible in glasses. (14) And that all the kids would tease me.
What is the correct way to write sentences 13 and 14?
I was sure that I would look terrible in glasses and that all the kids would tease me.
I was sure that I would look terrible in glasses all the kids would tease me.
I was sure of one thing, I would look terrible in glasses, and all the kids would tease me.
The sentence are written correctly in the paper.
(9) It connects your brain to your spinal cord. (10) Which connects to most of the nerves in your body.
What is the correct way to write sentences 9 and 10?
It connects your brain to your spinal cord, this connects to most of the nerves in your body.
Connecting your brain to your spinal cord and then to most of the nerves in your body.
Connecting your brain to your spinal cord. It connects to most of the nerves in your body.
It connects your brain to your spinal cord, which connects to most of the nerves in your body.
(12) "It's your turn to be the family cook. (13) I'll provide you with a budget and drive you to the grocery store, but next week your in charge," said Dad.
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 13?
Insert quotations mark before I'll
Change grocery store to Grocery Store
Change your to you're
Sentence 13 does not need to be changed.
