Do we need a comma?
Punctuation
Test Strategies
Spelling
Miscellaneous
100

I love to eat spaghetti and tacos with beans and cheese.

No comma

100

How are you doing

?

100

If you see an apostrophe, what do you do?

Circle it and either draw an arrow for possessive or write the two words for the contraction.

100

Make baby a plural noun.

babies

100

What do you do before you turn in your test?

Check your bubbles and reread your expository and fix any mistakes you see.

200

Before I take the STAAR test I will make sure to get a good breakfast.

Before I take the STAAR test, I will make sure to get a good breakfast.

200

"I am not looking forward to sitting quietly all day" grumbled Anthony.

Insert a comma after day to separate what they said and who said it.

200

If there are multiple sentences that look the same as your answer choices, what do you do?

Circle random punctuation.

200

Add -ing to plan

planning

200

When you are doing the multiple choice questions, you must do what, even if the answer is A?

Go through every answer and prove them right or wrong.

300

Sing is an awesome movie but I also really like Trolls.

Sing is an awesome movie, but I also really like Trolls.

300

As soon as the bell rang Mrs. Page rushed in the door.

comma after rang.  AWUBIS comma complete sentence.

300

What do you do for an answer choice like this:

digging       diging

Circle the double consonants and do vowel consonant vowel.

300

Make leaf plural - There were many ______ on the trees.

leaves

300

Where are you going to write your rough draft for your expository?

I will ask for a piece of notebook paper to write it on.

400

This weekend I went with my family to the zoo and to a trampoline place called Amazing Jump.

No comma needed

400

After many hours of practice, Hunters basketball skills are amazing!

Hunter's

400

If the question wants you to insert or delete a sentence or transition, what do you need to do to make sure it is the correct answer?

Read the sentence before and the sentence after.

400

add -ing to change

changing

400

Which part of the STAAR writing test are you going to work on first?

The revising and editing section/multiple choice.

500

We do not know what the prompt will be on tomorrow's test but we have a lot of ideas we can write about!

We do not know what the prompt will be on tomorrow's test, but we have a lot of ideas we can write about!

500

I don't know if its going to be sunny tomorrow.

it's means it is

500

If the question asks you to add a sentence at the very end of the paper (a concluding sentence), what should the sentence include?

The main idea, topic, central idea, or the point of the story.  What the story was all about.

500

____________ going to my grandma's house. (There, Their, or They're)

They're

500

What do you do when the teacher says there's only 1 hour left?

Start your final copy!

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