STAAR Editing Practice

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change should be made in sentence 3?

(3) Leaves brush against your windows and the chirps of birds echo through your room.

Change Leaves to Leafes

Change brush to brushes

Insert a comma after windows

Change through to threw

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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

(5) Some people like them so much that we created tree house hotels for guests.

Change like to likes

Change we to they

Change created to creating

No change needs to be made.

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change should be made in sentence 8?

(8) Tropical rain forests, thickly wilderness areas, or trees along an island shore are just a few places they are located.

Change rain forests to rain forest’s

Change thickly to thick

Delete the comma after areas

Insert a comma after shore

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change should be made in sentence 13?

(13) For example, a person in a rain forest will likely need to walks up wobbly narrow bridges and use ropes for support.

Change need to needs

Change walks to walk

Change use to using

No change is needed.

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change should be made to sentence 18?

(18) In Sweden their is a tree house hotel that is shaped like a bird’s nest.

Change their to there

Insert a comma after hotel

Change shaped to shape

Change bird’s to birds

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is the correct way to write sentence 22?

(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. 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.

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 26?

(26) This makes it a greatest spot for someone who is looking for a more active setting.

Change makes to make

Change greatest to great

Insert a comma after spot

No change needs to be made in this sentence.

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change is needed in sentence 28?

(28) You may prefer just to climb in a traditionul backyard tree house.

Change prefer to prefers

Change climb to climbing

Change traditionul to traditional

No change needs to be made.

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 29?

(29) Either way, tree houses provide a great way to enjoy nature.

Change provide to providing

Change a to an

Change enjoy to injoy

No change is needed in this sentence.

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

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

(4) Dolphins even find ways to entertain themselfs under the water.

Change find to found

Change entertain to entertaining

Change themselfs to themselves

No change should be made in sentence 4.

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 6?

(6) Unlike fish, dolphins are mammals, that breathe air.

Change are to were

Delete the comma after mammals

Change that to they

No change should be made in sentence 6.

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is the correct way to write sentence 10?

(10) One kind of air bubble is shaped like a circle and called a bubble ring it happens to be the perfect sea toy.

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.

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

How should sentence 11 be changed?

(11) Many Scientists have filmed and photographed dolphins playing with bubble rings.

Change Scientists to scientists

Insert a comma after filmed

Change playing to play

Change rings to ring

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 17?

(17) They have been seen trying to catch a bubble ring or move it around without braking it.

Change catch to caught

Insert a comma after ring

Change braking to breaking

No change should be made in sentence 17.

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change should be made in sentence 20?

(20) Some experts were thinking that dolphins also use bubble rings to help them hunt for food.

Change experts to Experts

Change were thinking to think

Change help to helps

Change hunt to hunting

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What change should be made in sentence 22?

(22) The bubbles causes the fish to move toward the surface of the water and scatter.

Change causes to cause

Change surface to surfase

Insert a comma after water

Change scatter to scater

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