STAAR Writing Editing

By the end of the first day, the lighthouse was more than 10 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 origanal

• Sentence 20 should not be changed.

The current living arrangements is causing me a lot of stress.

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 30? 

• Change arrangements to arangements

• Change is causing to are causing

• Change a lot to alot

• Make no change

I jotted down some notes about the word’s origin along with a couple of example sentences, the rest of the report would be a breeze.

What is the correct way to write sentence 20? 

• I jotted down some notes about the word’s origin along with a couple of example sentences. Sure that the rest of the report would be a breeze.

• I jotted down some notes about the word’s origin. Which along with a couple of example sentences meant that the rest of the report would be a breeze.

• I jotted down some notes about the word’s origin along with a couple of example sentences. The rest of the report would be a breeze.

• The sentence is written correctly in the paper.

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. 

What change, if any, is needed in sentence 18?

• Insert a comma after way

• Change processed to has processed

• Change centers' to centers

• Sentence 18 should not be changed

How should sentence be changed?

• Insert comma after grass

• Change reminds to reminding

• Change playing to play

• Change Soccer to soccer

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 14?

• change Doing to When we do

• delete the comma after though

• change preferances to preferences

• change simply to simple

How should sentence 29 be changed?

• Change scraped to scrapped

• Insert a comma after bubbles

• Change taught to teached

• Change correct to correctly

Mr. Owens, my Band Director, insists that I practice every night.

How does sentence 15 need to be changed? 

• Change Band Director to band director

• Delete the second comma

• Change insists to insisting 

• Sentence 15 does not need to be changed.

“This, ladies and gentlemen,” Mr. Potter announced as he held up a hat, “Contains all the words on your vocabulary list.”

What change needs to be made in sentence 9? 

• Change ladies to lady’s

• Change announced to announsed

• Delete the comma after hat 

• Change Contains to contains