A student notes question tests whether you can use a few facts to write a sentence that serves a specific goal. Read the goal first, and ask what the sentence needs to describe. Then name what the goal needs: for a goal asking how, you need what happens or what someone does. Cross out sentences that miss the goal, even when their facts are true, and check each fact in what's left against the notes.
Hints
- Hint 1
Read the goal after the notes and identify what you're being asked to describe.
- Hint 2
Which note gives what happens during reproduction? Check the words of that note against the sentence you're considering.
Step-by-step
Use the goal to choose the facts
Step 1Name what the goal needs
Start with describe how the platypus reproduces, the goal that tells us which facts matter. What should the answer tell us? We need what the animal does when it has young, stated directly. A sentence can be true and still miss that job if it tells us something else about the platypus.
- Step 2
Cross out sentences about other topics
Which sentences tell us something else? native to eastern Australia and Tasmania says where it lives, and a venomous spur on each hind leg describes a body feature. a monotreme mammal names its group without explaining how it has young. Those facts are true, but they don't describe reproduction, so we can cross out those sentences.
- Step 3
Check the reproduction details
The note says it lays eggs and nurses its young with milk, which tells how it has and feeds young. Laying eggs tells how it has young, and nursing tells how it feeds them. The sentence with lays eggs and nurses its young with milk gives both details directly, and each one matches the note. Choice C.