What should students do right after they finish their math page?
Understand Spoken Words and Language Structures · TELPAS Grade 3 listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 1: follow spoken directions and understand words and phrases as they are used in speech. On the real test some of these ask the student to click on a picture.
Listen to the teacher. Then answer the question.
After Math
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Ms. Garza: After you finish your math page, put it in the blue basket. Then take out your library book and read quietly at your desk.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What should students do right after they finish their math page?
- Take out their library book
- Put the math page in the blue basketCorrect answer
- Read quietly at their desk
- Start working on a new math page at their desk
Why “Put the math page in the blue basket” is correct
This tests following a spoken direction that uses order words. After you finish tells the student what has already happened, and the very next step is putting the page in the blue basket. The word then marks the step that comes after that. Students who hold on to the last thing they heard may choose the library book.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Take out their library book — Taking out the library book is the next step after the basket; the word then shows it comes later.
- Read quietly at their desk — Reading quietly is the last thing the teacher asks for.
- Start working on a new math page at their desk — The teacher does not ask for another math page.
Practice more of this
More listening practice for Grade 3, or see the TELPAS practice test for 3rd grade.
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