TELPAS reading practice questions for 2nd grade

Mateo had a loose tooth. It wiggled every time he ate.

At lunch, Mateo bit into a crunchy apple. Crunch! The tooth came out. Mateo held it up and smiled a big smile with a gap in it.

"Ms. Flores, look!" he said. Ms. Flores gave him a tiny paper envelope. Mateo put the tooth inside and closed it tight.

He put the envelope in his backpack. He could not wait to show his dad after school.

It was the day before Christmas. Ana and her abuela stood in the kitchen. A big bowl of masa sat on the table.

Abuela showed Ana how to spread the masa on a corn husk. Ana's first one was too fat. Her next one was too thin.

"Keep trying," said Abuela. Ana tried again and again. By lunch, her tamales looked just like Abuela's.

That night, the whole family ate tamales. "Ana made these," Abuela said proudly.

An armadillo is a small animal that lives in Texas. Its back is covered with hard plates, like a suit of armor. The armor helps keep it safe.

An armadillo has short legs and strong claws. It uses its claws to dig in the dirt. It digs to find bugs and worms to eat.

An armadillo cannot see very well, but it has a very good nose. It sniffs the ground to find its food. Armadillos often look for food at night.

The bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas. It blooms in the spring. Its small flowers are mostly blue, and the tip of each stem is often white.

In spring, bluebonnets can cover whole fields and the sides of roads. Many families go out to take pictures with them.

The flower got its name because people thought it looked like a bonnet. A bonnet is a kind of hat that women wore long ago.

Monarch butterflies are orange and black. Every year, many monarchs fly through Texas.

Monarchs lay tiny eggs on a plant called milkweed. When a caterpillar hatches, it eats the milkweed leaves. Milkweed is the only plant monarch caterpillars eat. Without it, they cannot grow.

That is why some schools in Texas plant milkweed in their gardens. They want to help the monarchs.

Hoa walked into her new classroom. She did not know anyone. She looked down at her shoes.

A girl with braids came over. "Hi, I'm Jada," she said. "Do you want to sit with me?" Hoa nodded.

At recess, Jada showed Hoa the swings and the slide. At lunch, they shared orange slices.

When the bell rang at the end of the day, Hoa was smiling. "See you tomorrow, Jada!" she called.

Makes 4 fruit cups

You need: 1 banana, 1 cup of strawberries, 1 cup of grapes, 4 small cups

1. Wash your hands.

2. Ask a grown-up to cut the banana and the strawberries.

3. Put some of each fruit in every cup.

4. Eat and enjoy!

Rain tapped on the window. Diego wanted to play outside, but the yard was full of mud. "What can we do now?" he asked his sister, Paola.

Paola took some blankets and pillows from the closet. They put the blankets over two chairs. Soon they had a cozy fort.

They read books in the fort all afternoon. "This is even better than the park," Diego said.