"Teen Brain Takes Biggest Sports Hits"

Which sentence expresses the central idea of the text?

• Teenagers are at greater risk of certain negative effects of concussions due to the state of their developing brain.

• Children and adults are safe from the negative effects of concussions due to their brains' stage of development.

• While teenagers are more vulnerable to concussions, they are able to recover from the damage more quickly than adults or children.

• No matter how much time has passed since an athlete has received a concussion, they will continue to experience difficulty with mental tasks.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• "Less plastic than a child's developing brain, but not yet with all of the executive functions of an adult noggin." (Paragraph 1)

• "And that region is where the all-important executive function areas are forming for teenagers: the frontal cortex." (Paragraph 2)

• "To learn more, researchers recruited 96 male sports participants ages nine through 26 — half of whom had had a diagnosed concussion in the past year." (Paragraph 3)

• "Using a battery of memory, attention, motor tests and EEG monitors, the researchers found that all of the concussed athletes showed reduced working memory." (Paragraph 3)

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Which of the following statements best identifies the author's purpose in the text?

• to encourage parents not to let teenagers play contact sports

• to show readers how to recognize and treat a concussion

• to provide readers with the resources to further explore the effects of head injuries

• to inform readers about how vulnerable the teenage brain is

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CCSS.RI.7.6

referring to neurologically-based skills involving mental control and self-regulation

• executive functions

• vulnerable

• concussions

• cognitive

capable of being wounded or hurt

• vulnerable

• cognitive

• EEG

• executive functions

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4B

connected with thinking or mental processes

• cognitive

• vulnerable

• EEG

• concussion

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

short for electroencephalography, is a method to record electrical activity of the brain

• EEG

• concussion

• executive function

• cognitive

an injury that affects your brain function, usually caused by a collision or blow to the head

• concussion

• executive function

• EEG

• vulnerable

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4