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1) A study found that teachers could detect academic problems in students who got less than 8 hours of sleep per night, including issues with attention, learning new material, and memory. 2) The study involved 74 children ages 6-12 who wore wrist monitors to track their sleep, and teachers assessed students' performance without knowing their sleep amounts. 3) Some schools address sleep issues through newsletters and notes to parents about ensuring students get enough rest for testing.

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Sleepy Students Perform Worse

1) A study found that teachers could detect academic problems in students who got less than 8 hours of sleep per night, including issues with attention, learning new material, and memory. 2) The study involved 74 children ages 6-12 who wore wrist monitors to track their sleep, and teachers assessed students' performance without knowing their sleep amounts. 3) Some schools address sleep issues through newsletters and notes to parents about ensuring students get enough rest for testing.

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Name:……………

READING COMPREHENSION PRACTICE Grade:……………


Date: …………….
Sleepy Students Perform Worse
A. Staying up an hour or two past bedtime makes it far harder for kids to learn, say scientists who
deprived youngsters of sleep and tested whether their teachers could tell the difference. They could. If
parents want their children to thrive academically, “Getting them to sleep on time is as important as getting
them to school on time," said psychologist Gahan Fallone, who conducted the research at Brown Medical
School.
B. The study, unveiled Thursday at an American Medical Association (AMA) science writers meeting, was
conducted on healthy children who had no evidence of sleep- or learning-related disorders. Difficulty paying
attention was among the problems the sleepy youngsters faced - raising the question of whether sleep
deprivation could prove even worse for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.
Fallone now is studying that question, and suspects that sleep problems “could hit children with ADHD as a
double whammy”.
1 C. Sleep experts have long warned that Americans of all ages do not get enough shuteye. Sleep is important
for health, bringing a range of benefits that, as Shakespeare put it, “knits up the ravelled sleave of care”. Not
getting enough is linked to a host of problems, from car crashes as drivers doze off to crippled memory and
inhibited creativity. Exactly how much sleep correlates with school performance is hard to prove. So, Brown
researchers set out to test whether teachers could detect problems with attention and learning when children
stayed up late - even if the teachers had no idea how much sleep their students actually got.
2 D. They recruited seventy-four 6- to 12-year-olds from Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts for the
three-week study. For one week, the youngsters went to bed and woke up at their usual times. They already
were fairly good sleepers, getting nine to 9.5 hours of sleep a night. Another week, they were assigned to
spend no fewer than ten hours in bed a night. The other week, they were kept up later than usual: First -and
second-graders were in bed no more than eight hours and the older children no more than 6.5 hours. In
addition to parents’ reports, the youngsters wore motiondetecting wrist monitors to ensure compliance.
4 E. Teachers were not told how much the children slept or which week they stayed up late, but rated the
students on a variety of performance measures each week. The teachers reported significantly more academic
problems during the week of sleep deprivation, the study, which will be published in the journal Sleep in
December, concluded. Students who got eight hours of sleep or less a night were more forgetful, had the
most trouble learning new lessons, and had the most problems paying attention, reported Fallone, now at the
Forest Institute of Professional Psychology.
3 F. Sleep has long been a concern of educators. Potter-Burns Elementary School sends notes to parents
reminding them to make sure students get enough sleep prior to the school’s yearly achievement testing.
Another school considers it important enough to include in the school’s monthly newsletters. Definitely,
there is an impact on students’ performance if they come to school tired. However, the findings may change
physician practice, said Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family physician in Bayou La Batre, who reviewed the data
at the Thursday’s AMA meeting. “I don't ask about sleep” when evaluating academically struggling students,
she noted. “I’m going to start.”
G. So how much sleep do kids need? Recommended amounts range from about ten to eleven hours a night
for young elementary students to 8.5 hours for teens. Fallone insists that his own second-grader get ten hours
a night, even when it meant dropping soccer - season that practice did not start until 7:30 — too late for her
to fit in dinner and time to wind down before she needed to be snoozing. “It’s tough,” he acknowledged, but
“parents must believe in the importance of sleep."

Reading comprehension-Ms.Linh Page 1


Questions 1-4
The text has 7 paragraphs (A - G).
Which paragraph contains each of the following pieces of information?
1. Traffic accidents are sometimes caused by lack of sleep.
2. The number of children included in the study.
3. How two schools are trying to deal with the problem.
4. How the effect of having less sleep was measured.

Questions 5-8
Complete the following sentences using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text for each gap.
ADHD
5. Fallone is now studying the sleep patterns of children with ………………………..
wrist monitors
6. The researchers used ……………………….that show movement to check that children went to bed
at the right time.
7. Students with less sleep had problems with memory, remembering new material, and
paying attention
……………………….
8. Fallone admitted that it was ……………………….
tough For children to get enough sleep.

Questions 9-13
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 9 - 13 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN If there is no information on this

9. The results of the study were first distributed to principals of American schools,
10. Some of the children in the study had previously shown signs of sleeping problems.
11. The study could influence how doctors deal with children’s health problems.
12. Fallone does not let his daughter play soccer.
13. Staying up later is acceptable if the child is doing homework.

Reading comprehension-Ms.Linh Page 2

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