TELPAS Practice

Marisol has colored in 23 stars. Which prizes can she get?

Analyze and Evaluate Information and Ideas · TELPAS Grades 4–5 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 poster. Then answer the questions.

Summer Reading Club

Poster titled Oak Hill Library Summer Reading Club, June 2 to July 31. It says: Read for 20 minutes a day. Each day you read, color in one star on your reading log. Books you read aloud to a younger brother or sister count, too! Each time you reach a new goal, bring your log to the front desk for a prize. A prize list follows: 10 stars, a bookmark; 20 stars, a free book to keep; 30 stars, your name on the Reading Wall. A note says Story Time is every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in the children's room. At the bottom: Sign up at the front desk. It's free!
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Oak Hill Library Summer Reading Club

June 2 to July 31

Read for 20 minutes a day. Each day you read, color in one star on your reading log. Books you read aloud to a younger brother or sister count, too!

Each time you reach a new goal, bring your log to the front desk for a prize:

10 stars: a bookmark

20 stars: a free book to keep

30 stars: your name on the Reading Wall

Story Time is every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in the children's room.

Sign up at the front desk. It's free!

The question

Choose the best answer.

Marisol has colored in 23 stars. Which prizes can she get?

  • only a bookmark
  • her name on the Reading Wall
  • a bookmark and a free bookCorrect answer
  • a free book and her name on the wall

Why “a bookmark and a free book” is correct

This asks the student to apply the poster's rules to a new case. The key line is "Each time you reach a new goal" you get a prize. With 23 stars, Marisol has passed 10 and 20, but not 30, so she earns two prizes. Students who look for only one prize, or for the closest number, often choose a wrong answer.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • only a bookmark — She also passed 20 stars, which earns a free book.
  • her name on the Reading Wall — That prize is for 30 stars, and she has 23.
  • a free book and her name on the wall — She has not reached 30 stars yet.

Practice more of this

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

This is an independent study resource. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Texas Education Agency or the official TELPAS program. All questions here are original practice material written to match the published test design.