What does a frog eat?
Read-Along Information with Scaffolding · ELPAC Kindergarten reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
The student follows along while the examiner reads an informational text aloud, with pictures for support.
Sit with your child. Read the text aloud while your child follows along. The real test shows three pictures here; they are described in words under the text, so read those aloud too. Then read each question and its three answers aloud.
Frogs
Frogs lay eggs in water. A tadpole comes out of each egg. A tadpole has a long tail. It swims like a fish. Then the tadpole grows legs. Its tail gets small. Now it is a frog! A frog can jump. A frog eats bugs.
Picture one: little round eggs float in a pond.
Picture two: a small tadpole with a long tail swims in the water.
Picture three: a green frog sits on a rock and catches a fly with its tongue.
The question
Read the question and the three answers aloud to your child.
What does a frog eat?
- grass
- bread
- bugsCorrect answer
Why “bugs” is correct
The fact is in the last sentence, and the third picture shows a frog catching a fly. Children tend to relax at the end of a text, so last-sentence questions are missed more often than they should be. Reread the final sentence, then read the third picture description and ask what the frog is catching.
Why the other answers are wrong
- grass — Grass is what many animals eat, and frogs live near plants, but the text says bugs.
- bread — Some children have fed bread to ducks at a pond and carry that over to frogs. The text does not mention bread.
Practice more of this
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