Which sentence best describes the picture? “Three students sell lemonade to a teacher in the hallway”
Read and Choose a Sentence · ELPAC Grades 3–5 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
Three students stand behind a folding table in a school hallway. Paper cups and a big jug of lemonade are on the table. One student is handing a full cup to a teacher. The teacher is dropping coins into a jar.
The question
Read the four sentences. Choose the one that best describes the picture.
Which sentence best describes the picture?
- Three students buy lemonade from a teacher in the hallway.
- Three students sell lemonade to a teacher in the hallway.Correct answer
- Two students sell lemonade to a teacher in the hallway.
- Three students sell lemonade to a teacher outside the gym.
Why “Three students sell lemonade to a teacher in the hallway.” is correct
Read and Choose a Sentence gives a student a picture and four sentences that are alike except for one detail each. Here the wrong answers change who is paying, how many students there are, and where the table stands, so reading only the first few words of a sentence gets nobody to the answer. The coins going into the jar settle the direction of the sale: the teacher is paying, so the students are selling.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Three students buy lemonade from a teacher in the hallway. — This reverses the sale. The teacher is putting coins in the jar and taking a cup, which makes the teacher the buyer.
- Two students sell lemonade to a teacher in the hallway. — The action and the place are right, but the picture shows three students behind the table, not two.
- Three students sell lemonade to a teacher outside the gym. — Everything matches except the place. The table is in a school hallway, and no gym is mentioned.
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