TELPAS Practice

Which day would be best for swimming in a pool outside?

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 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.

Which day would be best for swimming in a pool outside?

  • MondayCorrect answer
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday

Why “Monday” is correct

The chart does not talk about swimming, so the student has to think about what weather is best for it: sunny and hot. Monday and Friday are both sunny, so the student must notice the difference between hot and cold. Using information to make a choice is part of the analyze category.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • Wednesday — Wednesday is rainy, which is not good weather for swimming outside.
  • Thursday — Thursday is rainy, which is not good weather for swimming outside.
  • Friday — Friday is sunny, but it is cold. A hot day is better for swimming.

Practice more of this

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

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