TEXAS TEST PREP Revising and Editing Practice Workbook Grade 3: Practice and Preparation for the STAAR Writing Test

Preparation for the New Redesigned STAAR Reading Tests

This workbook will give students extensive practice completing revising and editing tasks. Students will read full-length examples of student writing that contain errors. Each passage is followed by questions that require students to improve the passage or to correct an error. This workbook will develop and improve writing skills, as well as prepare students for the revising and editing tasks on the new STAAR Reading tests.

Extensive Revising and Editing Practice
- Provides practice revising to improve writing and editing to correct errors
- Revising tasks cover focus, organization, sentence structure, transitions, word use, strong word choices, and more
- Editing tasks cover grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
- Covers the skills listed in the writing section of the TEKS
- Provides extensive practice with revising and editing tasks just like those on the new STAAR Reading tests

Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice
- 15 convenient practice sets allow for ongoing skill development
- Each practice set contains a full-length example of student writing with errors and opportunities for improvement
- Each set includes both revising and editing tasks
- Editing tasks require students to identify and correct errors in grammar, language, usage, and writing conventions
- Revising tasks require students to improve the passage by adding sentences, combining sentences, rewriting sentences, choosing stronger words, adding or replacing transition words or phrases, and more
- Format allows for review and feedback after each set

About the New STAAR Reading Tests

The STAAR tests have recently been redesigned. After the 2020-2021 school year, students will no longer take a STAAR Writing test in grades 4 and 7. Instead, writing will be tested for all grades as part of the STAAR Reading tests.