Article of the Week: Why your mindset matters by Meg Thacher

If the author needed to shorten the article, which sentence from the article would be the MOST important to keep?

• Not everyone can become a genius or a star athlete, but they can improve the skills they have and develop new ones.

• When you think, feel, move or use your senses, signals travel through this network.

• Kids with both mindsets do fine in elementary school, but middle school math is much harder.

• They discovered that, with some work, kids can choose to have a growth mindset and do better in school.

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Read the sentence from the section

"How Mindset Works."

Your mindset can affect your performance at school, in sports and the arts, and even how you act and feel.

How does this detail develop the author’s central idea?

• by elaborating on the difference between mindsets

• by emphasizing why a person's mindset is very important

• by illustrating that some people are better at sports and art

• by indicating that people act and feel differently in school

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Which selection from the article is BEST illustrated by Image 1?

• When they make mistakes, they think it means they're not smart. They're afraid of challenges because, if they don't do well, they might look dumb.

• They jump right in and work hard on difficult problems. They learn from mistakes by trying different problem-solving methods or asking for help.

• Dweck and her team discovered that middle school students with a growth mindset do better in math, while those with a fixed mindset do worse.

• The team taught those middle schoolers about mindset and how the brain works. They talked about the dangers of labeling people as dumb or smart.

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How do Image 2 and the information in the article develop a clear understanding of how mindset works?

• Both illustrate how differences in mindset can lead to different learning outcomes.

• Both illustrate how differences in mindset form different connections in the brain.

• Both show that students with a growth mindset can help students with a fixed mindset.

• Both show that students with a growth mindset probably had that mindset as babies.

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