Which sentence best describes the picture? “The girl reads a book on a bench”

Read and Choose a Sentence · ELPAC Grade 1 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.

The student reads three or four sentences and chooses the one that best describes a picture.

Read image description

A girl sits on a wooden bench in a park. An open book is in her hands. A small brown dog is asleep by her feet.

The question

Read the four sentences. Choose the one that best describes the picture.

Which sentence best describes the picture?

• AThe girl runs with her dog.
• BThe girl reads a book on a bench.Correct answer
• CThe dog sits on the bench alone.
• DThe girl sleeps under a tree.

Why “The girl reads a book on a bench.” is correct

The Read and Choose a Sentence task asks a child to match a whole sentence to a scene, which is a step up from matching single words. Each wrong choice changes one part of the scene: who is there, what they are doing, or where. Check the choices with the child one piece at a time — who, doing what, and where.

Why the other answers are wrong

• The girl runs with her dog. — Both the girl and the dog are in the picture, but neither is running; she is sitting and the dog is asleep.
• The dog sits on the bench alone. — The dog is in the picture, but it is asleep by her feet and the girl is on the bench with it.
• The girl sleeps under a tree. — Sleeping is in the picture, but it is the dog that sleeps, and the girl is on a bench, not under a tree.

Practice more of this

More reading practice for Grade 1, or see the ELPAC practice test for grade 1. For other grades, see free ELPAC practice tests by grade.