STAAR Revision & Editing Review

(1) Mom arrived home in the late afternoon. (2) She came into the kitchen with her best friend, principal Susan calder.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 2?

• Change calder to Calder

• Change best to Best

• Change principal to Principal

• change calder to Calder and principal to Principal

Answer explanation

Proper Nouns: "Principal" is her title, and Calder is her last name.

(3) When Principal Calder came into the house, she was carrying two books. (4) One was Diary of a wimpy kid and the other was becoming Naomi leon.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 4?

• Change wimpy kid to Wimpy Kid

• change leon to Leon

• change wimpy kid to Wimpy Kid and change becoming Naomi leon to Becoming Naomi Leon

• No change needs to be made in sentence 4

Answer explanation

Capitalize titles of books.

(5) Principal Calder shook off some leaves from her coat as she put the books on the table (6) She exclaimed, "I didn't realize how many peach trees you have here on Peachtree lane."

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 6?

• Change Peachtree to PeachTree

• Change peach to Peach

• Change lane to Lane

• No change need to be made in sentence 6

Answer explanation

Capitalize names of streets.

(7) Mom replied, "Oh yes, this town is famous for its peach trees. (8) In fact, granny nelly says that the town used to be called Peach Haven.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 8?

• change granny to Granny

• Change nelly to Nelly

• Change granny nelly to Granny Nelly

• No change needs to be made in sentence 8

Answer explanation

Capitalize proper nouns.

(1) Mom was furious when she saw the mess we had made in the kitchen. (2) Her voice was loud as she yelled, "You clean this mess up right now."

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 2?

• Change yelled to yell

• Change the period to a question mark

• Change the period to an exclamation mark

• No change needs to be made in sentence 2

Answer explanation

Exclamatory - exclaims, is excited

(3) We looked at the huge mess in the kitchen. (4) It would take days to clean it up if we had to do it alone. (5) His voice quavering, Tom asked, "You really want us to clean it up by ourselves."

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 5

• Change his to their

• Change the period to a question mark

• Change the period to an exclamation mark

• No change needs to be made in sentence 5

Answer explanation

Interrogative - asks a question

(6) Tom and I spent the whole day cleaning the kitchen. (7) We scrubbed! (8) We vacuumed! (9) We even cleaned the drain?

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 9?

• Change the question mark to a period

• Change the question mark to an exclamation mark

• Change cleaned to clean

• Change we to they

Answer explanation

Exclamatory - exclaims, is excited

(10) When we were done cleaning I was exhausted. (11) I looked at the sparkling kitchen. (12) "I'm never cooking again!" I exclaimed.

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 12?

• Change the exclamation mark to a period

• Change cooking to was cooking

• Change the period to a question mark

• No change needs to be made to sentence 12

(1) Juan and Sarah looked at their club house, which they had just finished painting. (2) "Its so big that we can invite all our friends over, said Sarah. (3) Everyone can join our club.

How should sentence 2 be changed?

• Change the comma to a question mark

• Change our to their

• Change its to it's

• No change needs to be made to sentence 2

Answer explanation

Contraction

(4) Sarahs paint brush was dripping, so she set it in the children's can of paint cleaner. (5) "Let's clean up all the mess we made painting," Juan said. (6) Then we can find furniture for the club house.

How should sentence 4 be changed?

• Change children's to childrens'

• Change she to their

• Change Sarahs to Sarah's

• No change needs to be made to sentence 4

Answer explanation

Possessive - singular