How does Carmen most likely feel about her trip?
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 postcard. Then answer the questions.
A Postcard from Big Bend
Dear Marisol,
My family is camping at Big Bend National Park in Texas! Yesterday we hiked up a mountain. Today we saw the Rio Grande. It is a big river, and Mexico is on the other side!
At night the sky is so dark that we can see a lot of stars.
See you soon, Carmen
The question
Choose the best answer.
How does Carmen most likely feel about her trip?
- Bored
- Upset
- Sad
- ExcitedCorrect answer
Why “Excited” is correct
Carmen never says "I am excited," but she uses exclamation marks and shares the things she has seen, like a big river and a sky full of stars. Using clues like these to work out a writer's feelings is an inference.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Bored — Carmen tells about many things she did and saw, so she is not bored.
- Upset — Nothing on the postcard shows that Carmen is upset.
- Sad — Nothing on the postcard is sad. She is sharing good news.
Practice more of this
More reading practice for Grade 2, or see the TELPAS practice test for 2nd grade.
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