TELPAS Practice

Read step 3. What does the word evenly mean?

Understand Words and Language Structures · TELPAS Grades 4–5 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.

Reporting category 1: work out what words and phrases mean from context, and understand how sentences and word forms work.

Read the recipe. Then answer the questions.

Frozen Yogurt Bark

You will need: 2 cups of vanilla yogurt, 1 spoonful of honey, 1 cup of chopped strawberries, a handful of blueberries, a baking pan, and wax paper.

Step 1: Line the baking pan with wax paper.

Step 2: In a bowl, stir the honey into the yogurt.

Step 3: Spread the yogurt evenly across the wax paper, about as thick as your finger.

Step 4: Sprinkle the strawberries and blueberries on top. Press them down gently so they stick.

Step 5: Put the pan in the freezer for at least three hours, until the yogurt is hard.

Step 6: Break the bark into pieces and serve it right away. It melts fast!

Ask an adult to help you chop the strawberries.

The question

Choose the best answer.

Read step 3. What does the word evenly mean?

  • as fast as you can
  • the same thickness everywhereCorrect answer
  • piled high in the middle
  • on one side of the pan

Why “the same thickness everywhere” is correct

This tests a word built from a base word and a suffix. "Even" means flat and level, and "-ly" tells how something is done. Step 3 adds a clue: the yogurt should be "about as thick as your finger" across the paper, which describes a layer that is the same everywhere.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • as fast as you can — Nothing in step 3 is about speed.
  • piled high in the middle — A pile in the middle is the opposite of an even layer.
  • on one side of the pan — The yogurt goes "across the wax paper," so it covers the whole pan.

Practice more of this

More reading practice for Grades 4–5, or see the TELPAS practice test for 4th and 5th grade.

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