TELPAS Practice

Why must students stay with their chaperone at all times?

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 schedule. Then answer the questions.

Field Trip Schedule

Schedule titled Fourth Grade Field Trip to the Science Museum — Thursday: 8:30 Leave school by bus. 9:15 Planetarium show: The Night Sky. 10:15 Fossil Hall: dinosaur bones and ancient sea shells. 11:30 Lunch in the picnic area. 12:15 Hands-on lab: build a simple machine. 1:30 Bus leaves the museum. A note at the bottom says: Pack a lunch in a paper bag with your name on it. Parent chaperones will each lead a group of five students. Stay with your chaperone at all times.
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Fourth Grade Field Trip to the Science Museum — Thursday

8:30 Leave school by bus

9:15 Planetarium show: The Night Sky

10:15 Fossil Hall: dinosaur bones and ancient sea shells

11:30 Lunch in the picnic area

12:15 Hands-on lab: build a simple machine

1:30 Bus leaves the museum

Pack a lunch in a paper bag with your name on it. Parent chaperones will each lead a group of five students. Stay with your chaperone at all times.

The question

Choose the best answer.

Why must students stay with their chaperone at all times?

  • so the chaperones can carry everyone's lunch
  • so students can sit together on the bus
  • so that no student gets lost in the museumCorrect answer
  • so the museum can count how many tickets it sells

Why “so that no student gets lost in the museum” is correct

The schedule gives the rule but not the reason, so the student has to infer it. A chaperone leads a small group of five, and staying together in a large, busy museum keeps everyone safe and accounted for. This is a common kind of question about why a rule exists.

Why the other answers are wrong

  • so the chaperones can carry everyone's lunch — Each student packs and brings their own lunch.
  • so students can sit together on the bus — The rule is about the whole visit, not the bus seats.
  • so the museum can count how many tickets it sells — Tickets are never mentioned.

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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