Active Reading – Part 1Goals 1-3

Goal 1 Goal 2Read actively Preview

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

Goal 3 Goal 4Form Questions Develop Strategies

Reading Goals

Goal 5 Goal 6Build vocabulary Think critically

Reading Goals

Read ActivelyActive Passive

vs.

Goal 1

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:

Highlight, take notes, and mark key vocabulary

Highlight,

Good idea!

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

Goal 2 PreviewPreviewing is looking over the content and organization of a text before reading it.

PreviewGoal 2

Read the title and subtitle of the text

Check out the author’s name

Taking A First Puff: Cigarette Smoking Experiences Among Ethnically Diverse Adolescents

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 AdolescentsAfter 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 SmokingNot 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 CoercionTaken 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.

PreviewGoal 2Taking A First Puff:

Cigarette Smoking Experiences Among Ethnically Diverse AdolescentsLaura 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 AdolescentsAfter 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 SmokingNot 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 CoercionTaken 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.

Read the introduction or first paragraph

Read each heading

Read 1st sentences under each heading

Preview

Note any charts, graphs, or pictures

Read the last paragraph or summary

Goal 2

Form QuestionsGoal 3Guide Questions are questions that a reader should be able to answer while reading a text or after reading a text.

Form QuestionsGoal 3Use terms like “how,” “why,” and “what” to begin the questions.

Avoid creating questions with “yes or no” type answers as you read.

Form QuestionsGoal 3What advances are being made in medical technology?

How are the advances being made?

Chapter Heading:Advances in Medical Technology

U.S. Obesity Rates at All-Time High

The Importance of College Completion

Who is making them?

Form QuestionsGoal 3Why are obesity rates so high in the U.S.?

Who is affected?

Chapter Heading:Advances in Medical Technology

U.S. Obesity Rates at All-Time High

The Importance of College Completion

What is causing them to rise?

Form QuestionsGoal 3

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?Chapter Heading:Advances in Medical Technology

U.S. Obesity Rates at All-Time High

The Importance of College Completion

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Why is completing college important?

What is the author going to say that I don’t already know?

How many students do not complete college?

Try to come up with your own questions for this topic first. When you are ready to see some possible guide questions, please click.

Review:

Goal 1: Read actively

Goal 2: Preview

Goal 3: Form Questions

End of Part 1…stay tuned for Part 2!