Practice revision and editing for SCR Writing for the STAAR test. 

This generator presents students with engaging sentences and paragraphs to practice the writing standard of your choice. The lesson provides integrated feedback and grading for the students.

The lesson contains leadup questions and scaffolding. Run the full lesson or just the writing prompt for a quick practice.

STAAR objective:
"Student demonstrates proficiency in writing being assessed by constructing a sentence that corrects a revising or editing error."

Tags: revise, edit, STAAR, SCR, correcting sentences

revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement, past, present, and future verb tense, singular, plural, common, and proper nouns, adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms, adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner, prepositions and prepositional phrases, pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases, coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences, capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places, punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series, correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments

revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: (i) complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; (ii) consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses; (iii) conjunctive adverbs; (iv) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement; (v) pronouns, including relative; (vi) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor; (vii) capitalization of proper nouns, including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations; (viii) punctuation marks, including commas in complex sentences, transitions, and introductory elements; (ix) correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses and active and passive voice; prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement; pronoun-antecedent agreement; correct capitalization; punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, and parentheses; and correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too

Revise drafts to improve clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence fluency, both within and between sentences.

Edit drafts to demonstrate a command of standard English conventions using a style guide as appropriate.

Revise drafts to improve clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness, including use of parallel constructions and placement of phrases and dependent clauses.

Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: (i) a variety of complete, controlled sentences and avoidance of unintentional splices, run-ons, and fragments; (ii) consistent, appropriate use of verb tense and active and passive voice; (iii) pronoun-antecedent agreement; (iv) correct capitalization; (v) punctuation, including commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, and parentheses to set off phrases and clauses as appropriate; (vi) correct spelling.

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