TELPAS Practice

Why is this snack most likely called “Ants on a Log”?

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 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.

Why is this snack most likely called “Ants on a Log”?

  • Ants like to eat celery.
  • The raisins in a line look like ants on a log.Correct answer
  • The snack is made outside near logs.
  • The peanut butter makes ants come to the snack.

Why “The raisins in a line look like ants on a log.” is correct

This asks the student to draw a conclusion from the details. Step 4 says to press the raisins “in a line on top,” which looks like small dark ants walking along a log of celery. The recipe never explains the name, so the student has to picture the finished snack.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • Ants like to eat celery. — The recipe says nothing about ants eating anything.
  • The snack is made outside near logs. — Nothing in the recipe says to make it outside.
  • The peanut butter makes ants come to the snack. — There are no real ants in this snack; the name describes how it looks.

Practice more of this

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

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