Which sentence best describes the picture? “A truck carries long logs down the road”

Read and Choose a Sentence · ELPAC Grade 2 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.

Look at the picture, then answer the questions.

Read image description

Something big drives down the road on six wheels. The back is open, with no roof over it. Long logs are stacked inside.

The question

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

Which sentence best describes the picture?

• AA truck carries a load of rocks down the road.
• BA truck carries long logs down the road.Correct answer
• CA bus full of people drives down the road.
• DA truck stops next to a pile of logs on the ground.

Why “A truck carries long logs down the road.” is correct

In Read and Choose a Sentence every choice is a real sentence, so the child has to check each part of it against the picture: what the thing is, what it is doing, and what it is carrying. Two choices name a truck and two mention logs, but only one puts the logs on a moving truck. Have your child check the sentence piece by piece — truck? logs? on the road?

Why the other answers are wrong

• A truck carries a load of rocks down the road. — The truck and the road are right, but the load is logs, not rocks.
• A bus full of people drives down the road. — The back has no roof, and the only person is the driver. It is carrying logs, not riders.
• A truck stops next to a pile of logs on the ground. — The logs are stacked inside the truck, and the truck is driving, not stopped.

Practice more of this

More reading practice for Grade 2, or see the ELPAC practice test for grade 2. For other grades, see free ELPAC practice tests by grade.