What lesson does Lucía learn in this story?
Analyze and Evaluate Information and Ideas · TELPAS Grade 3 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 passage. Then answer the questions.
Lucía's Kite
On Saturday, Lucía 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.
Lucía 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. Lucía pulled on the string, but the kite only shook.
“Don’t pull so hard,” Grandpa said. “Let the string go loose and wait.” Lucía waited. When the next gust of wind came, the kite lifted off the branch by itself.
Lucía grinned. “The wind got it stuck, and the wind got it out,” she said.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What lesson does Lucía learn in this story?
- Sometimes waiting works better than pulling.Correct answer
- Tall trees are dangerous for kites.
- Grandpa is better at flying kites than she is.
- Red kites fly higher than other kites.
Why “Sometimes waiting works better than pulling.” is correct
This question asks the student to draw a conclusion from the whole story. Pulling the string does not free the kite, but waiting for the next gust does, and Lucía’s last line shows she has noticed this. A good way to check is to ask, “What did Lucía try that did not work, and what worked instead?”
Why the other answers are wrong
- Tall trees are dangerous for kites. — The tree causes the problem, but the story is about how the problem was solved, not about avoiding trees.
- Grandpa is better at flying kites than she is. — Grandpa gives advice that works, but the story never compares how well he and Lucía fly kites.
- Red kites fly higher than other kites. — The kite’s color is only a detail; the story does not compare kites.
Practice more of this
More reading practice for Grade 3, or see the TELPAS practice test for 3rd grade.
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