STAAR Writing Grade 4 2017 - Past Paper

Quiz by Texas Education Agency

Grade 4

ELAR (2009)

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

Feel free to use or edit a copy

includes Teacher and Student dashboards

Measures 9 skills from
Grade 4
ELAR (2009)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

4.15.C: Writing - Writing Process

4.18.A: Writing - Expository and Procedural Texts

4.15.D: Writing - Writing Process

4.20.B: Oral and Written Conventions - Conventions

4.21.B: Oral and Written Conventions - Handwriting, Capitalization, and Punctuation

4.20.A: Oral and Written Conventions - Conventions

4.22.D: Oral and Written Conventions - Spelling

4.22.B: Oral and Written Conventions - Spelling

4.22.C: Oral and Written Conventions - Spelling

Track each student's skills and progress in your Mastery dashboards

With a free account, teachers can

edit the questions
save a copy for later
start a class game
view complete results in the Gradebook and Mastery Dashboards
automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
assign as homework
share a link with colleagues
print as a bubble sheet

Q 1/24
Score 0
What is the BEST way to combine sentences 2 and 3?
29

She can’t wait to play Zoo Madness, so she skips through the introduction and gets right to the action.
She can’t wait to play Zoo Madness because she skips through the introduction and gets right to the action.
She can’t wait to play Zoo Madness, she skips through the introduction and gets right to the action.
She can’t wait to play Zoo Madness, and she skips through the introduction, and she gets right to the action.

Our brand new solo games combine with your quiz, on the same screen

Correct quiz answers unlock more play!

24 questions

Show answers

Q1
What is the BEST way to combine sentences 2 and 3?
She can’t wait to play Zoo Madness, so she skips through the introduction and gets right to the action.
She can’t wait to play Zoo Madness because she skips through the introduction and gets right to the action.
She can’t wait to play Zoo Madness, she skips through the introduction and gets right to the action.
She can’t wait to play Zoo Madness, and she skips through the introduction, and she gets right to the action.
60s
4.15.C: Writing - Writing Process
Q2
Mitchell would like to add the following sentence to the second paragraph (sentences 6–12). Where is the BEST place to insert this sentence?
After sentence 6
After sentence 8
After sentence 9
At the beginning of the paragraph
60s
4.15.C: Writing - Writing Process
Q3
Mitchell wants to help readers move from the fourth paragraph (sentences 16–23) to the fifth paragraph (sentences 24–26). Which sentence or sentences should Mitchell insert at the beginning of the fifth paragraph, just before sentence 24?
Then Lauren hears a stomp and a huff.
It’s a rhinoceros! Oh, no!
The tiger is trapped and won’t be going anywhere.
Uh-oh! Another animal is just around the corner.
60s
4.15.C: Writing - Writing Process
Q4
The meaning of sentence 33 is unclear. It can be clarified by changing it to —
the voice
the rhino
her game
her shoulder
60s
4.15.C: Writing - Writing Process
Q5
Derrick wants to further develop the central idea of this paper by adding a detail after sentence 3. Which of these sentences could BEST follow and support sentence 3?
This is different and not the same as paying someone back.
I had a friend who helped me when I had to clean out my garage.
That means they’re doing something nice by helping another person who may be in need.
Pay it forward today if you have an opportunity to do this.
60s
4.18.A: Writing - Expository and Procedural Texts

Measures 9 skills fromGrade 4ELAR (2009)Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

Our brand new solo games combine with your quiz, on the same screen

Measures 9 skills from
Grade 4
ELAR (2009)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)