Details
Organization
Pictures
Built-in Hints
Connections
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Effects of sleep deprivation, like dead brain cells, depression, anxiety, obesity and even car accidents can be found under this subheading.
What is Permanent Damage?
100
This is the main way the order of the paragraphs and details are organized and clearly marked so you know what you will read about next.
What are subheadings?
100
This classic image that people have used historically to help them fall asleep is included at the beginning of the article includes a caption with a better suggestion.
What are the sheep?
100
These types of words can help you both identify the new word "melatonin" and find it's definition in the context of the paragraph.
What is boldfaced words?
100
This image on pg. 13 is both something readers and students can relate to, and a reason why students may not fall asleep right away when they tuck in at night.
What is the picture of teh girl on hre bed doing homework/with books?
200
An example of Gardner's experiment and statistics on teens and adults who are sleep deprived can be found in this untitled section.
What is the introduction?
200
The article starts with this image that directly relates to the main title, "Hey You! Wake Up!"
What is the boy sleeping in class on pg. 10?
200
This image on pg. 13, also a popular type of graph in math and science, is used to emphasize what percent of teens have their sleep interrupted by calls, texts or e-mails.
What is the pie graph?
200
These types of words often identify words in other languages, as can be seen on pg. 12.
What is italicized words?
200
Besides the title at the beginning of the article and the image on pg. 10, this caption is included to help readers connect by answering the question themselves.
What is "Most teens feel the urge to sleep from 3-7 a.m. & 2-5 p.m. Could that be the reason you're always nodding off during fourth period?"
300
Causes of sleep deprivation like technology, tech-related activities, anxiety and other factors can be found under this subheading.
What is A Perfect Storm?
300
These colors that are often used on police Caution tape and are used for construction and warnings on street signs are also used for this subheading as a warning of the types of things that can happen due to sleep deprivation.
What is Sleep Disasters?
300
The author, publisher and illustrators purposely chose this image to emphasize the 50 who were killed during the clean up from this sleep disaster.
What is the photo/picture of the Colgan Plane Crash on pg. 12?
300
Under the subheading Permanent Damage, the author uses italicized letters for the word "die" for this reason.
What is to stress or emphasize meaning and/or to be dramatic?
300
This image is included on pg. 13 to show which snacks are better or worse for energizing you and allowing you to sleep.
What are the thumbs up & down?
400
The Exxon Valdex oil spill and the Challenger Explosion both relate this way to the subheading Sleep Disasters.
What is they are both examples of sleep disasters?
400
This section or subheading on pg. 13 would provide some reasons for why readers are sleep deprived.
What is What Keeps You Awake at Night?
400
This image shows the results of taking naps, including what mental processes improve and which decrease.
What is the arrows under the subheading Nap Time on pg. 13?
400
These words are included in italics to explain a term and to define the subheading by the same name.
What is a "perfect storm?"
400
The author & publisher uses this type of sentence in three separate subtitles on pgs. 11 and 13.
What is a question?
500
All of the details and subheadings of this article support this part of the title and/or subtitle.
What is "And it's a way bigger problem than you think?"
500
Pg. 13 includes lots of additional details and fun facts to follow the information presented in the article, but uses this instead of paragraphs to organize the information.
What are lines, rows or columns?
500
Pictures of Albert Einstein, Bill Clinton and Lady Gaga are included to support which *other* subheading on pg. 13?
What is Nap Time?
500
This type of elaboration strategy or detail is highlighted in a different color, in larger font and with a mathematical symbol next to it 5 different times on pg. 13.
What are statistics?
500
This is the prize 5 winners will receive if they write about their sleep deprivation for this month's essay contest.
What is "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart?
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