What should you do before you spread the peanut butter?
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 recipe. Then answer the questions.
How to Make Ants on a Log
This easy snack is crunchy and sweet.
You need: celery sticks, peanut butter or cream cheese, and raisins.
Step 1: Wash the celery and dry it with a paper towel.
Step 2: Ask an adult to cut the celery into short pieces.
Step 3: Use a spoon to spread peanut butter or cream cheese along the inside of each piece.
Step 4: Press five or six raisins in a line on top.
Step 5: Eat your snack right away, or keep it in the refrigerator until snack time.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What should you do before you spread the peanut butter?
- Press raisins on top.
- Put the snack in the refrigerator.
- Eat the snack right away.
- Have an adult cut the celery.Correct answer
Why “Have an adult cut the celery.” is correct
This tests following steps in order. Spreading is Step 3, and cutting the celery is Step 2, so it comes first. The other choices are Steps 4 and 5, which come after.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Press raisins on top. — Pressing the raisins is Step 4, after the peanut butter is spread.
- Put the snack in the refrigerator. — Putting it in the refrigerator is the last step.
- Eat the snack right away. — Eating the snack is the last step.
Practice more of this
More reading practice for Grade 3, or see the TELPAS practice test for 3rd grade.
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