Grammar, Mechanics, and Spelling
Test Strategies
Subject-Verb Agreement
Test Day
Conjunctive Adverbs and Other Transitional Devices
100
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "He seems to feel that life is a series of trails and misfortunes." a) Change "seems" to "seem" b) Change "trails" to "trials" c) Change "misfortunes" to "missfortunes" d) No change needs to be made
What is "Change 'trails' to 'trials'?
100
Writing about yourself in past tense.
What is a personal narrative?
100
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "The shell, which has two parts, the carapace or upper part and the plastron or bottom part, serve both as the turtle's home and its armor." a) Change "has" to "have" b) Change "serve" to "serves" c) Change "serve" to "served" d) No change should be made.
What is "Change serve to serves"?
100
You should make sure you get this the night before the test.
What is a good night's sleep?
100
What change, if any, should be made to sentence 4: "(3) Thomas Edison invented over one thousand things. (4) Otherwise, he is best known for three inventions that changed the world: the phonograph, the light bulb, and the movie camera." a) Remove the comma after "Otherwise" b) Change "Otherwise" to "Furthermore" c) Change "Otherwise" to "However" d) No change should be made
What is "Change Otherwise to However?
200
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "Just as the blacksmith forges metal, or it is shaped by heating it and pounding it on an anvil, we are all tested 'at the flaming forge of life.'" a) Change "metal" to "medal" b) Remove the comma after "metal" c) Change "it is shaped" to "shapes it" d) No change is needed in this sentence.
What is "it is shaped to shapes it"?
200
Your reason for writing. For example, you might write to inform, to describe, to entertain, or to persuade.
What is "purpose for writing"?
200
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "If something threatens it, the turtle pulls its head and legs into its shell and wait until the threat has passed." a) Change "threatens" to "threaten" b) Change "pulls" to "pull" c) Change "wait" to "waits" d) No change needs to be made
What is "Change wait to waits"?
200
The length of time you have on Day 1 of the STAAR test in which you must select your answers, record your answers on your answer document, and complete planning, revising, editing, and finalizing your written composition.
What is 4 hours?
200
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "Back then, kids started working when they were young; in fact, Edison got a job on the railroad when he was twelve, selling newspapers and snacks." a) Change the semicolon to a comma b) Change "in fact" to "moreover" c) Change "in fact" to "still" d) No change should be made
What is "No change should be made"?
300
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "He has losed his wife and is raising his children by himself, but he feels no bitterness or remorse." a) Change "losed" to "lost" b) Add a comma after "wife" c) Remove the comma after "himself" d) No change is needed in this sentence.
What is "magnificent"?
300
After reading the writing prompt, you must create a web or a list, then plan your writing structure.
What is brainstroming and outlining?
300
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "The body temperature of leatherback turtles are usually higher than the temperature of the water they swim in because they have a high rate of metabolism." a) Change "are" to "is" b) Change "swim" to "swims" c) Change "have" to "has" d) No change needs to be made
What is "Change are to is."?
300
You should make sure you do these 2 things on the morning of the STAAR test.
What is eat a healthy breakfast and be on time to school!
300
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "Soon, Edison was getting patents for his inventions consequently, he set up his own laboratory in Newark, New Jersey." a) Add a semicolon before "consequently" b) Change "consequently" to "instead" c) Change "consequently" to "additionally" d) No change needs to be made
What is "Add a semicolon before consequently"
400
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "Although outwardly Longfellow's life was very differently from the blacksmith's, he, too, was tested." a) Change "outwardly" to "outward" b) Change "differently" to "different" c) Change "blacksmith's" to "blacksmith" d) No change is needed in this sentence.
What is "Change differently to different"?
400
The stages of the writing process.
What is "prewriting or planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing?
400
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "Turtles do not have teeth, but they has a sharp, jagged beak that they use for cutting and tearing their food." a) Change "do" to "does" b) Change "has" to "have" c) Change "use" to "uses" d) No change needs to be made
What is "Change has to have"?
400
You are not allowed to do this for the entire 4 hours of testing.
What is talk, disturb others, or move around the room?
400
What change, if any, should be made to sentence 29: "(27) Today we have smart phones and hand-held computers. (28) We listen to music on CD and watch DVDs. (29) Without Thomas Edison's pioneering work, our world would be a very different place." a) At any rate, b) Meanwhile, c) Therefore, d) However,
What is "However,"?
500
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "When people become famous, some of them gives up old friends and court only those richer and more famous than they are." a) Change "gives" to "give" b) Change "richer" to "richest" c) Change "more famous" to "famouser" d) No change needs to be made
What is "Change gives to give"?
500
It means you must EXPLAIN something (such as explaining whether a dress code is a good or bad thing)
What is the purpose of an expository essay?
500
What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence: "Snapping turtles, the largest of the freshwater turtles in the United States, are aggressive hunters that feed on smaller aquatic animals and plants." a) Change "are" to "is" b) Change "are" to "am" c) Change "feed" to "feeds" d) No change needs to be made
What is "No change needs to be made"?
500
You are not allowed to have this with you in your testing classroom on the day of STAAR testing.
What is an electronic device (cell phone, MP3, etc.)?
500
What change, if any, should be made to the following paragraph: "(21) Next Edison wanted to photograph people and things in motion and play the moving images back. (22) George Eastman had invented camera film. (23) In 1891, Edison used this film to invent the Kinetograph, a motion-picture camera that recorded movement onto film." a) Add "Earlier" to the beginning of sentence 22 b) Change "used" to "uses" in sentence 23 c) Add a comma after "people" in sentence 21 d) No change needs to be made
What is "Add "Earlier" to the beginning of sentence 22"
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