Grammar, Mechanics, and Spelling
Missy delicately rised from the blanket and walked to the cage door
What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 44? F Change delicately to delicatly G Change rised to rose H Change and to she J No change needs to be made in this sentence.
What is "G Change rised to rose?
This can be used as a tool to help me determine answers on the editing part of the test and to look up synonyms to replace boring or repetitive words.
What is a dictionary?
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"?
You should make sure you get this the night before the test.
What is a good night's sleep?
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?
(28) The poodle spun in circles and barked obnoxiously.”
What change should be made in sentence 28? A Change spun to spinned B Insert a comma after circles C Change obnoxiously to obnoxously D Delete the quotation marks
What is "D Delete the quotation marks"?
I can use this to provide examples in my body paragraph/s.
What have I experienced and seen?
The length of time you have to 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?
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"?
(34) She led the family to a more quieter section of the kennel and stopped in front of the last cage.
How should sentence 34 be changed? F Change led to lead G Change more quieter to quieter H Insert a comma after kennel J Sentence 34 should not be changed.
What is "G Change more quieter to quieter"?
This is the type or writing you will do tomorrow. You will have to explain an idea, whether it is important, and provide reasons for your opinion.
What is an Expository Essay?
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."?
Three of the things you should do today and tomorrow before your test.
What is eat a healthy dinner/breakfast, go to sleep early, avoid sugar, and be on time to school.
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"
(17) On Saturday they decided to visit the shelter to see what kinds of dogs were availible.
How should sentence 17 be changed? A Insert a comma after shelter B Change were to was C Change availible to available D Sentence 17 should not be changed.
What is "C Change availible to available"?
The stages of the writing process.
What is "prewriting/brainstorming, planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing?
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"?
You should do these things before you turn in your test.
What is check that I have bubbled all answer choices correctly, re-read my essay out loud, use a dictionary as much as possible, take mindful breaths, drink water, and do my 100% best?
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,"?
(4) Their new home had plenty of room and a large fenced backyard, but they couldn’t agree on what kind of dog you should adopt.
What change needs to be made in sentence 4? A Insert a comma after room B Delete but C Change you to they D No change needs to be made.
What is "Change you to they"?
I MUST understand this before I do any planning or writing. I will use words from it to write my thesis statement. Moreover, this is the only part of the test that any seventh grader can have read to them if they ask their test administrator.
What is the writing prompt?
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"?
This is what I can do after I complete my test.
What is read or sleep?
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"