Noticing Mistakes Boost Learning/A Quick Note on Getting Better

PART A: Which of the following describes the central idea of the text? (Noticing Mistakes Boost Learning)

• Accepting and learning from your mistakes helps you improve when you try again.

• Students have been taught to avoid mistakes rather than accept them

• Making mistakes shows that you're someone who's not afraid to take risks.

• People with fixed mindset don't learn from their mistakes because they don't make them often.

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? (Noticing Mistakes Boost Learning)

• "Mistakes get a bad rap. People often brush them aside by saying, 'I'll do better next time.'" (Paragraph 1)

• "It is when most kids are beginning school. How well they do in school can be related to their mindset about learning and intelligence." (Paragraph 3)

• Students who have a 'fixed' mindset tend to believe that they are born with a certain level of intelligence. They don't believe it can ever change." (Paragraph 4)

• Children with growth mindsets were also better at bouncing back after their mistakes. 'They were more likely to get the next trial right'" (Paragraph 8)

Which statement describes the author's main purpose in the text? (Noticing Mistakes Boost Learning)

• to encourage readers to make as many mistakes as they can

• to show how adults hurt students' intelligence by discouraging mistakes

• to provide evidence for how mistakes can help you learn

• . to help readers determine if they have a growth mindset or fixed mindse

According to the text, how does a fixed mindset compare to a growth mindset? (Noticing Mistakes Boost Learning)

• Students with either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset are equally discouraged by their mistakes.

• Students with either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset believe they can improve with hard work.

• Students with a fixed mindset think their intelligence is set, while students with a growth mindset believe they can improve.

• Students with a fixed mindset focus on what they got wrong, while students with a growth mindset focus on what they got right.

PART A: Which of the following identifies the central idea of the text? (A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult Things)

• Learning a new skill is never easy, but it is worth all of the hard work.

• Learning a new skill is easier for younger people than it is for older people

• People often fail at learning several new skills until they find the one they can master.

• When choosing a new skill to learn, it is important to pick something that comes naturally to you.

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? (A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult things)

• This field of study has been, all at once, the hardest and most rewarding of my life." (Paragraph 1)

• started writing as a 6-year-old boy under my mother's tutelage. I always 'felt' I could write." (Paragraph 1)

• Hopelessness feeds the fatigue that leads the student to quit." (Paragraph 4)

• That is why I ignore all the research about children and their language advantage. I don't want to hear it." (Paragraph 4)

PART A: What is the author's purpose in the text? (A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult Things)

• to give people an example of how failure is a good thing

• to encourage people to keep working hard, even if something is difficult

• to prove that nothing can be rewarding if it's not challenging

• to urge people to learn a foreign language since that's a necessary skill in the 21st century

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? (A Quick Note on Overcoming Difficult Things)

• I spoke French at the border. I spoke French when I checked in. I spoke French when I went to get lunch." (Paragraph 2)

• If there is such a thing, I don't have it. I mishear words. I confuse tenses. I can't really use the subjunctive. Yet." (Paragraph 2)

• There is absolutely nothing in this world like the feeling of s—king at something and then improving at it." (Paragraph 5)

• "I have said this before, and will say it again: Studying French is like setting in a canoe from California to China." (Paragraph 6)

Which sentence is written correctly?

• Burger King has the best burgers, but McDonald's has the best fries.

• Burger King has the best burgers but, McDonald's has the fries.

• Burger King has the best burgers, so McDonald's has the fries.

• burger King has the best burgers, but mcDonald's has the fries.

Which sentence is written correctly?

• I got tickets to the kendrick lamar concert, and we are going tonight!

• I got tickets to the Kendrick Lamar concert, but we are going tonight!

• I got tickets to the Kendrick Lamar concert, and we are going tonight!

• I got tickets to the Kendrick Lamar concert and, we are going tonight!