TELPAS Practice

What happens right after the wind changes?

Basic Understanding of a Variety of Texts · TELPAS Grade 3 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 passage. Then answer the questions.

Lucy's Kite

On Saturday, Lucy and her grandpa went to the park near their house in Corpus Christi. The wind was strong, and the flags by the gate were snapping back and forth.

Lucy held her new red kite up high. Grandpa let out the string, and the kite jumped into the sky. It climbed higher and higher until it looked as small as a bird.

Then the wind changed. The kite dipped and spun, and its long tail caught on a branch of a tall oak tree. Lucy pulled on the string, but the kite only shook.

“Don’t pull so hard,” Grandpa said. “Let the string go loose and wait.” Lucy waited. When the next gust of wind came, the kite lifted off the branch by itself.

Lucy grinned. “The wind got it stuck, and the wind got it out,” she said.

The question

Choose the best answer.

What happens right after the wind changes?

  • Grandpa lets out more string so the kite climbs.
  • The kite flies as high as a bird.
  • Lucy lets go of the string.
  • The kite’s tail gets caught in a tree.Correct answer

Why “The kite’s tail gets caught in a tree.” is correct

This is a sequence question. Paragraph 3 starts with “Then the wind changed,” and the next sentences say the kite dipped and its tail caught on an oak branch. Help the student find the signal words (“Then”) that mark the order of events.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • Grandpa lets out more string so the kite climbs. — Grandpa lets out the string at the start, before the wind changes.
  • The kite flies as high as a bird. — The kite looks as small as a bird before the wind changes, while it is still flying well.
  • Lucy lets go of the string. — Lucy holds on and pulls the string; she never lets go.

Practice more of this

More reading practice for Grade 3, or see the TELPAS practice test for 3rd grade.

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