Active Reading – Part 1
Goals 1-3
Reading Goals
Alternative Scheduling Plans (Flextime)
In alternative scheduling plans or flextime, management defines a total
number of required hours as a core workday and is flexible with starting and
ending time. Managers must rise to the challenge of ensuring that required
hours are met and monitoring employee performance. However, overall,
flexible arrangements allow for increased productivity due to reductions in
absenteeism and tardiness.
Permanent Part-Time
Permanent part-time employees are hired on a permanent basis to work a
part-time week. Unlike temporary part-time workers who are employed to fill
short-term needs, permanent part-time employees enjoy the same benefits
that full-time employees receive.
Job Sharing
Job sharing is an arrangement in which two employees work part-time
sharing one full-time job. Those who share a job have been found to be very
Reading Goals
Reading Goals
Read Actively
Active
Passive
vs.
Passive readers are uninvolved with
what they read.
Passive Readers:
Always read the same way
Read the text only because it was
assigned
Passive Readers:
Read everything at
the same speed
Accept whatever is
in print to be the
truth
Passive
Readers:
Check the length of an
assignment first
Read to finish the
reading assignment
Passive Readers:
Read without
taking notes or
highlighting
May be unaware
of reading
strategies
Active readers are involved with what
they are reading.
Active Readers:
Adapt reading strategies
to assignments
Analyze the purpose of a
reading assignment
Active Readers:
Good
idea!
Highlight, take notes,
and mark key
vocabulary
Active Readers:
Develop
personalized
strategies for
comprehension
Active Readers:
Adjust reading
speed
Question ideas in
the assignment
Active Readers:
Skim the headings,
introductions, and
conclusions for the
topic before reading
Preview
Previewing is looking over the
content and organization of a text
before reading it.
Preview
Taking A First Puff:
Cigarette Smoking Experiences Among Ethnically Diverse Adolescents
Read the title and
subtitle of the text
Check out the
author’s name
Laura K. McCormick, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Promotion and Behavior, University
of Georgia
According to the Surgeon General, cigarette smoking remains the single most preventable cause of
premature death in the US. On average, more than 400,000 Americans die from smoking related
diseases each year, a figure greater than the number of deaths due to AIDS, motor vehicle crashes,
alcohol and other substances, and violence combined.
Smoking Rates among Adolescents
After steady declines in cigarette smoking among high school students during the 1970s and 1980s, the
trends appear to be on the increase. Recent findings from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that overall smoking rates among high school
students increased by a third between 1991 and 1997. Data from CDC surveys indicate that the
proportion of 10th grade students who were daily smokers increased from 12.3% to 18.3% between
1992-96. Although 1997 MTF surveys suggest a leveling off in teen smoking rates, the increases in youth
smoking during the 1990s are in sharp contrast with declines in adult smoking observed over the same
time period.
Minority Adolescents and Smoking
Not all adolescents are equally affected. African American youth tend to smoke at lower rates than do
their Hispanic and European American counterparts. In 1997, approximately 40% of European American
youth had smoked one or more times in the past 30 days as compared with 34% of Hispanic and about
23% of African American high school students. Although overall, female and male adolescent smoking
rates are similar, for some ethnic groups, females smoke at higher rates than males (i.e. American
Indians) while for others, the reverse seems to be true (i.e. Hispanics).
Friends: Social Approval versus Social Coercion
Taken together, studies suggest that peers play complex and differential roles in the smoking
experiences of adolescents from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Although adults tend to use the phrase
'peer pressure' in characterizing the role of other young people on smoking initiation by adolescents,
very few of the teens described instances of peer pressure in their smoking narratives. For the most
part, adolescents described social interactions coupled with a desire to be accepted that provided the
reasons to try smoking.
Preview
Taking A First Puff:
Cigarette Smoking Experiences Among Ethnically Diverse Adolescents
Read the
introduction or
first paragraph
Read each heading
Read 1st sentences
under each heading
Laura K. McCormick, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Promotion and Behavior, University
of Georgia
According to the Surgeon General, cigarette smoking remains the single most preventable cause of
premature death in the US. On average, more than 400,000 Americans die from smoking related
diseases each year, a figure greater than the number of deaths due to AIDS, motor vehicle crashes,
alcohol and other substances, and violence combined.
Smoking Rates among Adolescents
After steady declines in cigarette smoking among high school students during the 1970s and 1980s, the
trends appear to be on the increase. Recent findings from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that overall smoking rates among high school
students increased by a third between 1991 and 1997. Data from CDC surveys indicate that the
proportion of 10th grade students who were daily smokers increased from 12.3% to 18.3% between
1992-96. Although 1997 MTF surveys suggest a leveling off in teen smoking rates, the increases in youth
smoking during the 1990s are in sharp contrast with declines in adult smoking observed over the same
time period.
Minority Adolescents and Smoking
Not all adolescents are equally affected. African American youth tend to smoke at lower rates than do
their Hispanic and European American counterparts. In 1997, approximately 40% of European American
youth had smoked one or more times in the past 30 days as compared with 34% of Hispanic and about
23% of African American high school students. Although overall, female and male adolescent smoking
rates are similar, for some ethnic groups, females smoke at higher rates than males (i.e. American
Indians) while for others, the reverse seems to be true (i.e. Hispanics).
Friends: Social Approval versus Social Coercion
Taken together, studies suggest that peers play complex and differential roles in the smoking
experiences of adolescents from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Although adults tend to use the phrase
'peer pressure' in characterizing the role of other young people on smoking initiation by adolescents,
very few of the teens described instances of peer pressure in their smoking narratives. For the most
part, adolescents described social interactions coupled with a desire to be accepted that provided the
reasons to try smoking.
Preview
Note any charts,
graphs, or pictures
Read the last
paragraph or summary
Form Questions
Guide Questions are questions that a reader
should be able to answer while reading a
text or after reading a text.
Form Questions
Use terms like “how,” “why,” and
“what” to begin the questions.
Avoid creating questions with “yes or no”
type answers as you read.
Form Questions
Chapter Heading:
Advances in Medical Technology
U.S. Obesity Rates at All-Time High
The Importance of College Completion
What advances
are being made in
medical
technology?
How are the
advances being
made?
Who is making them?
Form Questions
Chapter Heading:
Advances in Medical Technology
U.S. Obesity Rates at All-Time High
Why are obesity
rates so high in
the U.S.?
Who is affected?
The Importance of College Completion
What is causing them to rise?
Form Questions
Chapter Heading:
Advances in Medical Technology
U.S. Obesity Rates at All-Time High
The Importance of College Completion
Try to come up with
Why
is
completing
your own questions
college
for this
topicimportant?
first.
When you are ready
the author
to seeWhat
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to say that I
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know?
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How many students do
not complete college?
Review:
End of Part 1…
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