TELPAS Practice

Why does the boy’s mother buy two whole baskets?

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.

Jada’s Peaches

Every Saturday in summer, Jada helps her dad sell peaches at the farmers market in Fredericksburg. Her job is to stack the peaches in neat rows so people can see the best ones.

One morning, a little boy reached for a peach and dropped it. It hit the ground and rolled under the table. When Jada picked it up, it had a soft brown spot. It was bruised.

The boy’s lip started to shake. Jada smiled at him. She chose a big, perfect peach and put it in his hand. “This one is for you,” she said.

Later that morning, the boy came back with his mother. “My son told me about the kind girl at the peach stand,” she said. She bought two whole baskets.

Dad winked at Jada. “Being kind is good for business,” he said.

The question

Choose the best answer.

Why does the boy’s mother buy two whole baskets?

  • The peaches are cheaper later in the morning.
  • Jada’s dad asks her to buy them.
  • Her son dropped two more peaches.
  • She is glad that Jada was kind to her son.Correct answer

Why “She is glad that Jada was kind to her son.” is correct

This tests understanding cause and effect in a story. The mother says her son told her about “the kind girl at the peach stand,” and then she buys two baskets. Dad’s line, “Being kind is good for business,” confirms the connection.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • The peaches are cheaper later in the morning. — Prices are not mentioned in the story.
  • Jada’s dad asks her to buy them. — Dad does not speak to the mother in the story.
  • Her son dropped two more peaches. — Only one peach is dropped in the story.

Practice more of this

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

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