How does Mr. Mitchell want the students to fold the paper?

Understand Spoken Words and Language Structures · TELPAS Grades 8–9 listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.

Reporting category 1: follow spoken directions and understand words and phrases as they are used in speech. On the real test some of these ask the student to click on a picture.

The question

Choose the best answer.

How does Mr. Mitchell want the students to fold the paper?

• ASo it becomes short and wide
• BInto four small squares
• CSo it becomes long and narrowCorrect answer
• DInto a triangle from one corner

Why “So it becomes long and narrow” is correct

This tests the direction word "lengthwise," which means along the long side of something. Mr. Mitchell also explains it: the crease runs "from the top of the page all the way to the bottom." Folding words like lengthwise and crosswise come up often in classroom directions, and on the real test this kind of item may ask the student to click a picture.

Why the other answers are wrong

• So it becomes short and wide — This is the other way to fold a page in half. "Lengthwise" means along the long side.
• Into four small squares — He says to fold it in half once, not twice.
• Into a triangle from one corner — He describes a crease from the top to the bottom of the page, not a corner fold.

Practice more of this

More listening practice for Grades 8–9, or see the TELPAS practice test for 8th and 9th grade.