Do we need a comma?
I love to eat spaghetti and tacos with beans and cheese.
No comma
How are you doing
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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.
Make baby a plural noun.
babies
What do you do before you turn in your test?
Check your bubbles and reread your expository and fix any mistakes you see.
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.
"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.
If there are multiple sentences that look the same as your answer choices, what do you do?
Circle random punctuation.
Add -ing to plan
planning
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.
Sing is an awesome movie but I also really like Trolls.
Sing is an awesome movie, but I also really like Trolls.
As soon as the bell rang Mrs. Page rushed in the door.
comma after rang. AWUBIS comma complete sentence.
What do you do for an answer choice like this:
digging diging
Circle the double consonants and do vowel consonant vowel.
Make leaf plural - There were many ______ on the trees.
leaves
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.
This weekend I went with my family to the zoo and to a trampoline place called Amazing Jump.
No comma needed
After many hours of practice, Hunters basketball skills are amazing!
Hunter's
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.
add -ing to change
changing
Which part of the STAAR writing test are you going to work on first?
The revising and editing section/multiple choice.
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!
I don't know if its going to be sunny tomorrow.
it's means it is
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.
____________ going to my grandma's house. (There, Their, or They're)
They're
What do you do when the teacher says there's only 1 hour left?
Start your final copy!