WIDA ACCESS Grades 2–3 Practice Tests

Part A: Planting Bean Seeds

A classroom science table with clear plastic cups, a bag of soil, a bowl of bean seeds, a watering can, and a sunny windowsill behind it.

1. Which picture shows what each student takes first?
2. Which picture shows what the students do next?
3. Where will the students put their cups?

Part B: How a Frog Grows

A teacher sits with students on the classroom rug next to a small class fish tank with water plants; he holds up a big picture book about frogs.

1. Which picture shows frog eggs?
2. Which picture shows a tadpole just after it hatches?
3. Which picture shows a froglet?

Part C: Our Sunflower Chart

A tall sunflower plant in a big pot grows next to a classroom wall with a tall measuring stick; two children and their teacher stand next to it.

1. Which picture shows the sunflower in Week 1?
2. Which bar graph shows the sunflower's height?
3. How tall was the sunflower in Week 4?

Part D: Pip the Penguin Chick

A penguin dad stands on the ice with a small fluffy gray chick resting on his feet.

1. Why did Papa Penguin cover the egg with his belly? (A) to hide it from Mama Penguin (B) to help it roll away (C) to keep it warm (D) to wash it in the snow
2. What happened right after Pip hatched? (A) Pip swam in the sea. (B) Mama came back with food. (C) Papa went to find the egg. (D) Pip grew black feathers.
3. What is the whole story mostly about? (A) Papa Penguin looks for a lost egg in the snow. (B) Mama Penguin catches fish for the whole family. (C) Pip is scared of the water and stays on the ice. (D) Pip grows up and learns to swim.

Part E: Helping Sea Turtles

A sunny beach where a volunteer in a hat talks to children next to a small rope fence around a spot in the sand.

1. What does a mother sea turtle do on the beach? (A) She digs a hole and lays eggs. (B) She sleeps on the sand all summer. (C) She feeds her babies every night. (D) She builds a nest in a tall tree.
2. Why do the helpers put a fence around each nest? (A) so turtles cannot leave the beach (B) so people do not step on the eggs (C) so children can play near the nest (D) so the eggs stay wet in the ocean
3. Why did the town make a rule about lights? (A) so people can see the moon and stars (B) so the helpers can sleep at night (C) to help baby turtles find the sea (D) to make the beach dark for games

Part A: Our Class Ladybugs

A clear plastic box with leaves, sticks and red ladybugs sits on a classroom shelf next to a small spray bottle.

1. Our class has a ladybug home. It is a clear box with leaves and sticks inside. The ladybugs are small and red with black spots. Which picture shows a ladybug?
2. Ladybug Helper Job 1: Every morning, spray a little water on the leaves. Use the small spray bottle. Do not pour water into the box. What does the helper use every morning?
3. Ladybug Helper Job 2: On Friday, we will let the ladybugs go. We will open the box in the school garden, next to the flowers. Ladybugs eat tiny bugs that hurt plants. They will help our garden! Where will the class let the ladybugs go?

Part B: Grace's Giant Pumpkin

Grace and her grandpa kneel in a vegetable garden in spring, planting seeds in the dirt.

1. In spring, Grace and her grandpa planted pumpkin seeds in the garden. Grace watered them every day. After one week, small green sprouts came up out of the dirt. What came up after one week?
2. In summer, long vines spread across the garden. Big yellow flowers opened on the vines, and bees buzzed from flower to flower. Then a small green pumpkin started to grow where one flower had been. What grew where a flower had been?
3. By fall, the pumpkin was huge and orange. It was so heavy that Grace could not lift it. Grandpa pushed it into a wagon, and Grace pulled the wagon to the house. "We did it together!" said Grace. Which picture shows how they moved the pumpkin?

Part C: From Egg to Chicken

A red hen house on a farm with a hen sitting on a nest of straw inside.

1. A hen lays eggs in a nest. Then she sits on her eggs to keep them warm. She turns them with her beak every day. Which picture shows a hen keeping her eggs warm?
2. After about 21 days, the chick is ready to hatch. It uses a tiny bump on its beak, called an egg tooth, to crack the shell. The chick is wet at first. In a few hours, its feathers dry and become soft and fluffy. What does the chick use to crack the shell?
3. A chick grows fast. At about six weeks old, its fluffy yellow down is gone, and it has real feathers. It is now a young chicken. At about five months old, a young hen can lay eggs of her own. Then the life cycle starts again. Which picture shows the chicken life cycle in the right order?

Part D: How Fast Do Seeds Sprout?

1. Mr. Hughes's class planted four kinds of seeds on the same day. They checked the cups every day. They wrote down how many days it took each kind of seed to sprout. Which seed sprouted first? (A) radish (B) lettuce (C) pea (D) corn
2. The class planted 10 seeds of each kind. Not every seed sprouted. Look at the last column of the table. How many corn seeds did NOT sprout? (A) 6 (B) 10 (C) 4 (D) 3
3. Lucas looked at the table. He said, "The pea seeds took 3 more days to sprout than one other kind of seed." Which seed is Lucas talking about? (A) lettuce (B) radish (C) corn (D) pea

Part E: Grandma Rosa Grows Up

A girl and her grandmother sit on a sofa looking at an open photo album.

My name is Ava. My grandma Rosa showed me her photo album. She told me about her life, and I made a timeline.

1. When Grandma Rosa was a little girl, there were no computers at her school. Students wrote on small chalkboards. Today, Ava's class uses tablets and paper. What did students use at Rosa's school long ago? (A) tablets (B) laptop computers (C) paper and tablets (D) chalkboards
2. People have a life cycle too. The stages are baby, child, teenager, and adult. Look at the timeline to see what happened in 1985. What stage of life was Rosa in when Elena was born? (A) adult (B) baby (C) child (D) teenager
3. Ava says, "Our family's life cycle keeps going. Grandma was a baby. She grew up and had my mom. Then my mom grew up and had me!" What does Ava mean when she says the life cycle "keeps going"? (A) Grandma Rosa likes to go on long walks. (B) Everyone in the family lives in Maple Town. (C) Children grow up and have families too. (D) Rosa learned to be a nurse long ago.

Part 1 — The Baby Animal Barn

Hello! I'm Ms. Carter. Let's talk about a visit to a farm. Leo is here, too.

Hi!

This is the baby animal barn at Green Hill Farm. In spring, many baby animals are born here. Families can come and visit them.

Visitors can help the farmer take care of the baby animals. Look at these children helping.

1. P1 — Now it's your turn. What other baby animals do you see in the barn?
2. P3 — Now it's your turn. Tell what the boy in the blue shirt is doing to help the calf.

Part 2 — Mealworms Change

Leo's class has a tank of mealworms. Mealworms are not really worms. They are young beetles! The class watched them for five weeks and drew what they saw.

In Week 1, the mealworms crawled and ate oats. In Week 3, some of them changed. In Week 5, they changed again.

Next, the class did two tests with the mealworms. In Test 1, they put oats on one side of a tray and a slice of apple on the other side. In Test 2, they covered one side of a tray to make it dark. The other side was bright. They put the mealworms in the middle of each tray.

1. P3 — Now it's your turn. Tell what the class saw in Week 3.
2. P5 — Now it's your turn. Look at Test 2. What do you think the mealworms will do? Why? Then tell how the class can find out.

Part 3 — The Little Acorn

Now I will tell you a story called The Little Acorn. Look at Picture 1.

One fall day, a busy squirrel found an acorn under a big old oak tree. She dug a hole and buried it. Then she ran off to find more acorns, and she forgot all about it.

Look at Picture 2. In the spring, soft rain fell. The acorn drank the water and began to grow. A tiny green sprout poked out of the ground. It looked up at the old oak and said, "One day, I will be big like you!"

Look at Picture 3. Year after year, the little tree grew. Its trunk got thicker, and its branches got longer. Birds built nests in it, and children played in its cool shade.

Look at Picture 4. Now the little acorn was a big oak tree. One fall day, it dropped acorns of its own onto the ground. Along came a busy squirrel...

1. P3 — Now it's your turn. Tell what happens in Picture 2.
2. P5 — Now it's your turn. Tell the middle and the end of the story. Use Pictures 3 and 4.

Part A: Noah's Tomato Plant

Part B: How an Apple Tree Grows