TELPAS Practice

What will the weather be on Tuesday?

Basic Understanding of a Variety of Texts · TELPAS Grade 2 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.

Reporting category 2: find the main idea and key details, and follow what happens in stories and informational texts.

Read the chart. Then answer the questions.

This Week's Weather

Chart titled This Week's Weather with two columns, Day and Weather, and a small weather picture in each row: Monday, Sunny and hot, with a sun; Tuesday, Cloudy, with a cloud; Wednesday, Rainy, with a rain cloud; Thursday, Rainy, with a rain cloud; Friday, Sunny and cold, with a sun.
Read image description

Monday: Sunny and hot

Tuesday: Cloudy

Wednesday: Rainy

Thursday: Rainy

Friday: Sunny and cold

The question

Choose the best answer.

What will the weather be on Tuesday?

  • Sunny and hot
  • Rainy
  • CloudyCorrect answer
  • Sunny and cold

Why “Cloudy” is correct

Reading a chart means finding the right row and reading across. The Tuesday row says Cloudy. Each wrong choice is the weather for a different day.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • Sunny and hot — Sunny and hot is the weather for Monday.
  • Rainy — Rainy is the weather for Wednesday and Thursday.
  • Sunny and cold — Sunny and cold is the weather for Friday.

Practice more of this

More reading practice for Grade 2, or see the TELPAS practice test for 2nd grade.

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