What would most likely happen if the drops in a cloud stayed tiny?
Analyze and Evaluate Information and Ideas · TELPAS Grade 2 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 3: make inferences, draw conclusions, and think about why the author wrote a text and how it is built.
Read the passage. Then answer the questions.
Where Rain Comes From
Rain starts as water on the ground, in lakes, rivers, and oceans.
When the sun warms the water, some of it turns into a gas that you cannot see. This gas rises up into the sky.
High in the sky, the air is cool. The cool air turns the gas back into tiny drops of water. Many tiny drops together make a cloud.
When the drops in a cloud grow big and heavy, they fall to the ground as rain.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What would most likely happen if the drops in a cloud stayed tiny?
- It would rain very hard.
- It would not rain.Correct answer
- The cloud would fall to the ground.
- The sun would stop shining.
Why “It would not rain.” is correct
The passage says drops fall as rain when they grow big and heavy. The student has to use that rule for a new case: if the drops stay tiny, they do not get heavy enough to fall, so there is no rain. Using what a text says to predict something it does not say is part of the analyze category.
Why the other answers are wrong
- It would rain very hard. — Hard rain would need lots of big, heavy drops. Tiny drops stay in the cloud.
- The cloud would fall to the ground. — The passage says drops fall as rain, not that the whole cloud falls.
- The sun would stop shining. — The size of the drops has nothing to do with the sun shining.
Practice more of this
More reading practice for Grade 2, or see the TELPAS practice test for 2nd grade.
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