Answer a question from an article, a chart and a table

Grade 11 Reading Worksheet - Building Confidence

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Use this

   Source line: News release by the Riverton County Library System's communications office, October 6, 2026. The chart and the table were made by the same office from its card records.

   [1] The Riverton County Library System announced this week that it issued 920 new library cards in September, more than double its monthly average since April, and its director credited a surge of interest in reading across the county. [2] Paloma Reyes, who has directed the system since 2018, said the figure was the highest since the library began keeping monthly counts in 2019, and that it would anchor the system's budget request to the county. [3] "People are coming back to the library in a way we have not seen in years, and it shows in the card counts," Reyes said at a Tuesday news conference held in the Central branch. [4] The system serves about 64,000 residents through four branches and a bookmobile that visits twelve neighborhoods each week, and a card is free to any resident who has not held one before. [5] A card counts as new only if its holder had no earlier card, so renewals and replacements are tallied separately and do not appear in the monthly figures. [6] The budget request asks the county for two additional bookmobile staff members and for longer weekend hours at the Eastside branch, where the reading rooms have been crowded since the summer. [7] During the second week of September the library also held a sign-up drive in partnership with the county school district, at which students received cards in their classrooms. [8] Reyes called the drive a success but declined to say how many of the September cards it had produced, noting that the cards were counted with all the others. [9] Asked whether September was typical, she said that every month brings its own pattern and that she considers the year so far a strong one for the system. [10] The library's board will meet Thursday to review the request, and a public hearing before the county commissioners is scheduled for the first week of November.

3. 1.

   Ari wants to know how many of September's cards were issued at the school drive. Which card holds that number, and how?

   • The chart, because its September bar shows the cards that the drive added to the usual monthly count.
   • The article, because sentence 7 says the drive took place during the second week of September.
   • The article, because sentence 8 calls the drive a success and gives the number of cards it produced.
   • The table, whose last column counts drive cards branch by branch, so adding it gives the total.
4. 2.

   Bo reads the table's last column. Which statement about the school drive is accurate?

   Use the picture in question 1.

   • Central issued 40 percent of its September cards at the drive, the highest share of any branch.
   • The bookmobile visited each school during the drive week, which is why it issued so many cards.
   • The bookmobile issued 300 cards at the drive, more than the other four branches did together.
   • Eastside issued the most drive cards, because it also has the largest number of new cards overall.
5. 3.

   Esme wants one statement that needs both the chart and the table. Which statement uses both?

   Use the picture in question 1.

   • Without the drive's 440 cards, September had 480 new cards, close to August's 460 on the chart.
   • Adding the table's 440 drive cards to the chart's 920 gives a September total of 1,360 cards.
   • Without the drive, September would have matched August exactly, because both months issued 460 new cards.
   • September's 920 new cards were more than double the April-to-August average, as the chart's bars show.
6. 4.

   Kira reads the chart. Which statement about it is accurate?

   Use the picture in question 1.

   • September's bar shows 920 percent more new cards than August, a rise of nine hundred and twenty percent.
   • From April to August, monthly new cards stayed between 380 and 460, and September reached 920.
   • August was the lowest month, at 380 cards, and July was the highest before September, at 420.
   • September's jump shows that interest in reading rose in each neighborhood the system serves in the county.
7. 5.

   Luz wants one statement that needs the article and the table. Which statement uses both?

   Use the picture in question 1.

   • The drive added 440 cards in September, so the drive explains the whole difference between September and August.
   • The drive and the bookmobile together issued 740 cards, which is most of September's new cards.
   • Reyes called the drive a success, so it must have produced a large share of the September cards.
   • The drive Reyes called a success produced 440 of September's cards, a number she declined to give.

8. Use this

   Source line: Story by the school newsletter's student reporters, October 12, 2026. The chart and the table were made by the newsletter staff from the reading logs that homeroom teachers reported.

   [1] Dunmore Middle School students are reading more than ever before, according to reading logs the school collected last week, and the school's reading specialist says the new twenty-minute silent reading period deserves the credit. [2] The average student who handed in a log recorded 34 minutes of reading a day in September, up from 22 minutes in the logs the school collected in March, a gain of more than half. [3] "That is a huge change for just a few months, and it tells us the period is doing exactly what we hoped," said Ms. Okonkwo, who has led the school's reading program since 2020. [4] The silent reading period began in the first week of September and takes place after lunch in every homeroom, with students free to choose any book, magazine or story they like. [5] Students record the minutes they read each night in a paper log, which they are asked to turn in to their homeroom teachers on Fridays, though the logs are optional and ungraded. [6] The school enrolls 480 students in three grades, and its newsletter staff asked each homeroom teacher to report how many logs had come in and the average minutes they showed. [7] Ms. Okonkwo said she plans to keep the silent reading period through the spring if the gains hold, and several teachers said they hoped it would help students who find it hard to read at home. [8] Principal Gary Haas said the school would check reading test scores again in January, when the winter assessments are given, to see whether the extra minutes show up there as well.

10. 6.

    Milo wants to know how many students handed in a reading log in September. Which card holds that number, and how?

    • The table, because its September log column lists 142, 91 and 52 logs, which add to 285.
    • The chart, because its weekly bars show how many logs the school received in each week of September.
    • The article, because sentence 6 says that the school enrolls 480 students in three grades.
    • The article, because sentence 2 gives exact averages of 34 and 22 minutes, so it must list how many logs came in.
11. 7.

    Noah reads the September columns of the table. Which statement is accurate?

    Use the picture in question 6.

    • Grade 7's average was 32 logs a day, which is lower than Grade 6's average of 37 logs a day.
    • Grade 6 handed in 142 logs from 150 students, nearly every student in that grade.
    • Grade 8 handed in the most logs, since its row lists the number 170 in the first column.
    • Grade 8 students read the least because they dislike silent reading more than the younger grades do.
12. 8.

    Pia wants one statement that needs the article and the table. Which statement uses both?

    Use the picture in question 6.

    • The average rose from 22 to 34 minutes, so every student in the school now reads about 12 minutes more.
    • Adding the March logs and the September logs gives 455 students, so most of the school's students were counted.
    • The article's 34-minute average describes the 285 students who handed in logs, not all 480.
    • Average reading time rose in every week of September, from 30 minutes in Week 1 to 37 in Week 4.
13. 9.

    Ren wants to know whether the weekly average kept rising through September. Which card holds that, and how?

    Use the picture in question 6.

    • The article, because sentence 2 gives the exact figures of 34 minutes in September and 22 in March.
    • The article, because sentence 4 says the silent reading period began in the first week of September.
    • The chart, because it gives the average for each of the four weeks of September.
    • The table, because its September column of averages shows how each grade's average changed during the month.
14. 10.

    Zee wants one statement that needs the chart and the table. Which statement uses both?

    Use the picture in question 6.

    • Adding the four weekly averages gives 136 minutes a day, which is the new daily average for the school.
    • Every week of September beat March's average, so every grade read more in each week than it did in March.
    • Grade 6 students read the most in both months, at 25 minutes in March and 37 minutes in September.
    • March's 22-minute average came from 170 logs, while September's weeks, all at 30 or more, came from 285.