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When I am looking in my inventory and I click on a system and then I see the tabs on the left, I click on the software tab to see what software is installed on that system and all I get is "still gathering system info" and that never goes away it just stays there and never gives me any info. Is there something i can do to fix this?
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Oct 16, 2008 at 2:25 UTC
Hmmm, has this worked in the past? Did you recently change your install? What OS is it installed on anyway?
Oct 16, 2008 at 2:37 UTC
We never used the tab before so I don't know if it ever worked before. The OS is windows 2003
Oct 16, 2008 at 2:46 UTC
Hmmmm interesting, you will need to submit a ticket to email@example.com if a reboot doesnt fix it.
Oct 16, 2008 at 3:15 UTC
Hi Zudy,
Have you tried hitting "refresh" on the device in the inventory view? Clicking this option will trigger Spiceworks to do a dedicated scan of that individual machine.
This is a thread from a user that was having problems with an exchange server but eventually ran into this problem as well. If refreshing the device doesn't work, try some of the more involved configurations I've listed there.
Let me know what happens.
Oct 16, 2008 at 3:24 UTC
Yes I have tried the refresh and it still hangs up. I am going to try the reboot in the morning because if I do it now there will be alot of calls so i will try that first and if that does not work I will try the rest of the things that have been said. Thank you
Oct 17, 2008 at 10:47 UTC
I tried the reboot this morning and that did not work. I will e-mail the tech support and see if they have any clue on what to do.
Oct 17, 2008 at 11:08 UTC
Have you tried using a different browser to look at that tab? Perhaps there is a rendering issue. Also try clearing your cache for your browser.
Oct 17, 2008 at 1:27 UTC
I just tried that as well and no luck. So I sent a mess to the spiceworks support team and see if they can help me out. Thanks for everyone's help.
Oct 17, 2008 at 1:35 UTC
Hey Zudy,
I know you tried clicking "refresh", but I didn't see a response on whether you tried the solution I gave in this thread:
This discussion has been inactive for over a year.
You may get a better answer to your question by starting a new discussion.


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1 Content Area Literacy Guide August 2007 The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource Management, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (August 2007). The content was informed by feedback from CCSSO partners and state education officials who participate in CCSSO s Secondary School Redesign Project.
2 Table of Contents Purpose... 1 Overview... 1 PART I: UNDERSTANDING CONTENT LITERACY... 2 A Common Language for Literacy and Learning...2 Making the Case for Adolescent Literacy Instruction...3 What Content Area Teachers Need to Know...5 Strategic Teaching...10 Best Practices Frameworks...11 Planning Strategic Literacy-Based Lessons...14 PART II: LITERACY INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES... 18
3 Content Area Literacy Guide PURPOSE It is indisputable that high school students must become proficient readers and writers to successfully meet the requirements of the secondary curricula and be adequately prepared for college and citizenship. But all too often high school teachers have not been adequately prepared to strengthen the literacy skills of their students. This Content Area Literacy Guide 1 is a resource to help high school teachers learn how to use literacy strategies as an essential means to help students master core content. OVERVIEW The Content Area Literacy Guide begins with a description of the various terms that are used within its pages, followed by an explanation of why content literacy development is critical for all students at the high school level. The Guide provides concrete suggestions for supporting all students as they progress from the learning to read focus of elementary school to the reading to learn focus of high school core content classes. Examples of instructional strategies and best practices that support adolescent learners to improve content literacy and learning outcomes within the science, social studies, mathematics, and English classes are provided to encourage thinking and discussion by secondary educators as they learn more about literacy best practices. Suggestions are provided about how to integrate what is known about adolescent literacy and literacy best practices into content instruction. The Guide also includes a framework for effective lesson planning and a template to assist with planning content area lessons that incorporate before, during, and after reading. Teachers may adapt the template to address district and local school lesson planning requirements. The Guide concludes with a collection of nearly two dozen strategies that support students literacy development and their understanding of content. Each strategy includes a description, its purpose, stepby-step directions for use, and suggestions for differentiated applications. Each description also contains a quadrant chart that illustrates how each instructional strategy might be implemented in an English, mathematics, science, or social studies classroom. 1 The focus of this Guide is on content area reading, but two points must be emphasized: 1) Although reading is emphasized in these materials, literacy is more than just reading; 2) Many in the literacy field stress the interconnectedness of reading, writing, and thinking and the need to explicitly provide instruction and modeling for each of these to support student success. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 1
4 PART I: UNDERSTANDING CONTENT LITERACY A Common Language for Literacy and Learning It is important to have common language when talking with colleagues and with students about literacy and learning. Without a shared vocabulary, it is difficult to talk about what you are trying to accomplish to improve teaching and learning. In this Guide, adolescent literacy refers to the ability of middle and high school students to competently read, write, think about, discuss, and present text-based information and ideas using a wide variety of print formats, including electronic and multimedia. Three additional terms appear frequently throughout these materials: learning strategies, instructional strategies, and best practices. It is important to note these concepts have many meanings throughout the field of literacy. Thus, the definitions below are not intended to define these terms in the field, but are used here to help teachers understand and use the resources in this Guide. Learning Strategies Learning strategies refer to the specific strategies students learn how to use independently to understand a new concept or master a skill. One way to think about learning strategies is to consider what an effective practitioner of a discipline does to solve a challenging problem. For example, what do good readers do when confronted with the challenge of understanding a difficult text? Good readers consider what they know about a topic before reading. They also monitor their comprehension and generate questions as they read. In order for students to learn how to use specific learning strategies independently, it is important for teachers to explain and ensure students understand the following: 1. What each strategy is designed to do 2. Why the strategy is important to use 3. How the strategy works Instructional (Literacy Support) Strategies Instructional strategies are the specific techniques teachers use to support student learning. They are often used to convey and organize information that is provided to students, or they may be used to teach specific learning strategies. In the field of content literacy, instructional strategies are often referred to as literacy support strategies, e.g., two-column note taking (which supports the learning strategy of note taking), anticipation/reaction guide (which supports the learning strategies of establishing a purpose for reading and finding evidence in the text), reciprocal teaching (which supports the social nature of literacy and the specific reading comprehension strategies of predicting, summarizing, clarifying, and questioning), as well as others. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 2
5 It is important to note that a teaching strategy may also be a learning strategy. For example, a teacher may ask students to use a graphic organizer to organize information from a text. Students may also use graphic organizers independently to support their reading of texts. Best Practices When using the resources in this Guide, best practices refer to routine uses of instructional strategies that support student learning. Best practices develop from evidence in the research, as well as the interpretation of the evidence by experts in the field. Since research is always ongoing, what constitutes a best practice is always evolving and open for debate. One best practice promoted in this Guide is the Before, During, and After framework. This framework describes the routine of using instructional strategies at each of the following three phases of instruction: 1. Prior to reading a text to prepare for learning 2. During the reading of a text to monitor comprehension 3. After the reading of a text to consolidate learning Another best practice is the Gradual Release model. This is a pattern where teachers provide a great deal of scaffolding or support when students are introduced to new material. As a lesson or unit progresses, scaffolding is gradually released until students have independently mastered the concepts or skills. The gradual release model often includes the following: 1. Direct instruction and/or modeling at the outset 2. Some type of collaborative or small group work 3. Independent practice or demonstration Concluding Remarks When supporting students literacy development in any content area, it is important to: 1. Consider what learning strategies students need to use in order to master the concepts and skills being taught 2. Determine what instructional strategies best fit the context 3. Make sure effective instructional routines are practiced on a regular basis Making the Case for Adolescent Literacy Instruction What the Data Show If we hope to increase students content knowledge, persistence through graduation, and readiness for college and citizenship, literacy instruction must be an essential component of all core content classes. The reality is many middle and high schools do not provide this instruction systemically across all content area classes. The result is many students who enter high school on or close to grade level reading skills are losing ground as they progress through high school. A recent study of high school juniors and seniors taking the ACT College Exam found that only half of the students were ready for college-level reading assignments in core subjects like mathematics, history, science, and English (ACT, 2006). The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 3
6 An additional reality is most students are not arriving at our nation s high schools with grade level reading skills. Less than a third of the nation s adolescents demonstrate proficiency with grade level reading skills and expectations; even worse, only one in seven low-income students are meeting grade level expectations (National Center of Education Statistics, 2005). Governor Wise of the Alliance for Excellent Education puts it this way, reading is the heart of learning, and the nation is in the literacy emergency room showing a flat line on the education EKG. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, nationally and for each state, clearly demonstrate we still are not doing what is needed to help our older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses (AEE, 2006). Elementary Versus High School Literacy Instruction In the elementary years, reading instruction focuses on basic reading: phonics/decoding, fluency, and comprehension of narrative and simple informational text. The type of instruction needed for most students to be successful with content area reading and writing changes drastically in middle and high school. Students in middle and high schools are bombarded with a wide variety of complex expository and descriptive text, technical content vocabulary, and writing requirements of content classes. Most students know how to read on at least a literal level when they enter high school. In other words, they can decode and comprehend basic information when reading straightforward text. However, many do not know how to read to learn more complex texts on their own; they do not know how to independently use reading, writing, and critical thinking strategies to comprehend information, construct meaning, question the author s thinking against other text or their own experiences, or synthesize new information and ideas to new situations. Literacy instruction at the high school level should support students to continue developing reading fluency; improving vocabulary knowledge; developing higher-level reasoning and thinking skills; improving reading comprehension strategies, and increasing student motivation and engagement with reading and writing (Torgeson et al., 2007). Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas Content literacy instruction is needed for students to meet the reading, vocabulary, critical thinking, and writing demands they face. With just basic reading instruction, students are unprepared to read, write, and discuss using the language of science, social studies, mathematics, and English language arts the result is that many are not successful without support to do this within the context of content area instruction. As students are asked to read texts of increasing complexity from grade level to grade level, their skills as readers must also become increasingly sophisticated. High school students still need support in learning how to comprehend and critically think about media, lectures, demonstrations, charts and graphs, and hands-on activities. When they are confronted each year with increasingly complex texts to read in every class, in content areas that are either new to them or require higher order analysis, evaluation, and synthesis, many students find that they can read it, but don t get it (Tovani, 2000). Students need to realize that the skills, comprehension requirements, and understanding of text structures involved with reading a mathematics textbook, a science journal article, a primary source in a history class, and a Shakespearian play are quite different and they need to be able to use effective learning strategies with each. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 4
7 Content area teachers play a critical role in supporting adolescents ability to comprehend the tough expository and literary text they are required to read. There are two main reasons for this: 1) No one understands the specific content of English language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics better than the teacher of that discipline. Content area teachers are the ones who have the knowledge of the reading, writing, listening, discussion, and deep thinking skills that are required to understand content text. 2) Content area teachers have the opportunity to develop students literacy skills because they see them on a frequent, regular basis and can teach content relevant to reading and writing within the context of a unit of study, promoting engagement and learning (Irvin, J., Meltzer, J., & Dukes, M., 2007). Content area teachers need onsite support to learn and implement literacy best practices through professional development and opportunities to collaboratively plan and share literacy instructional strategies. When teachers receive this type of support, they can play an essential role in addressing and supporting the literacy needs of adolescents. The suggestions within this Guide provide a framework for content teachers to use to begin to address the alarming statistics of adolescent literacy within their classrooms. What Content Area Teachers Need to Know Teachers often find they actually know more than they realize about good reading practices because many are avid readers in their content area and intuitively construct meaning. Many teachers intuitively know how to read their content, but may not have used a specific instructional strategy to help students learn these skills. Teachers need to make the steps in the reading/learning process visible and accessible to every student. First, it is important that teachers understand and articulate the specific reading and learning demands of their respective content areas. Because some state standards embed literacy standards within content descriptions, or separate them into reading or English language arts standards, many teachers of mathematics, science, and social studies have not directly considered the cognitive demands of content learning. As a result, they may assign reading, writing, and thinking tasks without considering whether or not the students have the requisite literacy skills to complete the task. Next, it is essential for teachers to learn and use a repertoire of instructional strategies, presented later in this Guide, in purposeful ways to support students to be able to transfer their use of these strategies across a department, team, and/or school. Within a department or learning team, teachers can agree on the types of reading, writing, research/inquiry, and speaking/presenting opportunities students will have, where instruction on how to do these will occur, and which instructional strategies will be taught, modeled, and used. This will support students in developing fluency with learning strategies they can use to accomplish content area learning tasks. Transfer of learning strategies across content areas occurs when students experience common instructional strategies across content areas and classes. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 5
8 There are instructional strategies that work well across all content areas, but there are also studies indicating that some specific literacy strategies support reading and writing in certain content areas. In particular, reading and writing in science (Norris & Phillips, 1994), social studies (Mosburg, 2002; Perfetti, Britt, & Georgi, 1995), and mathematics (Leong & Jerred, 2001) require specific skills unique to each content area (as cited in Torgeson et al., 2007, p 18). The following descriptions provide readers with some background information about the reading and writing demands of the four core content disciplines and important literacy tasks in each area. If the reading/writing connection is fully developed, students will be better prepared to make meaning of expository and narrative text. Content teachers have the opportunities to not only teach the skills and learning strategies most applicable to their content, but they also can model and teach students how to use reading and writing to learn the content material. The following information can serve as a springboard for powerful discussions among teachers, teams, departments, and schools as they consider how to connect instructional goals with instructional strategies in core content classes. For further information about content area reading and writing, visit the Content Expert section of the CCSSO Adolescent Literacy Toolkit. Reading and Writing in Science Science text often presents students with particular roadblocks to learning because the vocabulary is technical, the text is filled with symbols and formulas. and it is often written in an expository style. Science textbooks are often written on a much higher reading level than the students actual reading level or grade level. This presents a challenge for both the on-grade level student, but especially for the struggling reader. Explicit teaching and modeling of comprehension strategies, vocabulary development activities, use of leveled text, and use of collaborative group protocols for reading text and text supplements are just a few of the instructional strategies and practices that will support literacy needs of science students. Lab experiences provide science students with a good opportunity to learn and remember some of the abstract vocabulary found in science text (Barton, 1997). For instance, it is much easier for students to understand the term mitosis if they can view slides of the stages of cell division. Lab experiences also provide an opportunity for students to make the reading/writing connection through the recording of observations, predictions, and developing hypotheses. The key is to help students make these connections on their own, as many depend on teachers to frontload information and guide them in explaining lab processes and results. Inquiry-based science encourages students to use higher order thinking skills and conduct investigations. Students need support with selecting tools, such as graphic organizers or learning logs, to collect information from text or experiments as they search for answers. Organizing their findings and thoughts through writing helps students summarize, synthesize, and reflect on what they have read or discovered during their investigative methods. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 6
9 Science tasks require students to gather data, make predictions, conduct experiments, and interpret data. This requires students to draw upon critical reading skills such as following directions, drawing conclusions, and problem solving. Understanding these literacy and cognitive skill requirements of science will allow teachers to help students select appropriate instructional literacy strategies to support learning and understanding. Sample literacy tasks required of science students: Compare and contrast Form hypotheses and draw conclusions Understand the bigger picture Determine the relative importance of information Write about findings in learning logs or as part of lab report conclusions Reading and Writing in Social Studies Students success with social studies text requires them to have not only basic level skills such as the ability to recall and select main ideas and details, but also the ability to use higher order thinking skills to analyze text format and structure, evaluate perspective and sources, and synthesize across multiple texts. As students engage with text, they use questioning strategies or skills to build meaning and understanding (Beck & McKeown, 2002). They also must identify cause and effect relationships, recognize bias, distinguish fact from opinion, and compare and contrast. Social studies texts come with other literacy challenges the need to read graphs and maps and various presentations of data. As social studies teachers plan instruction, it is important to identify instructional strategies that will best support students to learn facts and, more importantly, to understand context and relationships and to make connections from differing periods of history to current events. Questioning strategies, such as Question Answer Relationship (QAR) and ReQuest, move students from simple recall to making the types of inferences that are so important for students deep understanding of social studies text. Class activities should support the reading/writing connection and help students move from a basic understanding of bias, issues of equality and differing points of view. Instructional strategies should transition from reading about cause and effect relationships to writing persuasive and argumentative essays supported by students understanding of the topic. By writing about the information collected during reading of social studies texts, students have the opportunity to clearly define their thinking and understanding. Writing assignments in social studies should stimulate students thinking and may include report writing about an event in history; expository writing to compare and contrast; writing narratives that weave historical events with fiction; and writing to argue or defend an idea or belief. Sample literacy tasks required of social studies students: Sequence and make connections between historical events Understand text structures and features Evaluate sources Recognize issues and trends in context The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 7
10 Engage in reflective inquiry through reading and writing Recognize and write about cause-and-effect relationships Distinguish between, and write about, fact versus opinion Reading and Writing in Mathematics Mathematics texts are dense with symbols, equations, concise explanations, and graphic representations that require students to read slowly and deliberately. Understanding the technical vocabulary of mathematics is critical to knowing how to set up a problem or an equation. Students must also understand the multiple meanings of words such as power, root, tangent, reciprocal, and degree, which have specific meanings in mathematics that are quite different from their meanings in other contexts. Vocabulary development strategies, such as Knowledge Rating Guides and Triple-Entry Vocabulary Journals, can support the learning and remembering of mathematics vocabulary. Understanding the language or vocabulary of mathematics is only the beginning of the literacy skills required to be successful with reading and understanding mathematics text. Other literacy challenges include understanding how the position of symbols in an equation or words in a word problem can influence meaning, how to read and interpret graphs, and how to write an explanation of one s mathematical thinking, or problem-solving steps. Mathematics requires students to be analytical readers, something that does not come naturally to most students (MacGregor, 1990). The savvy mathematics teacher will use a variety of instructional strategies to help students read and understand mathematics text. Direct, explicit instruction will guide students understanding of terminology; how to read mathematics expressions; and how to successfully identify words in a word problem to guide setting up the equation to solve the problem. Constructing meaning through discussion and writing is the natural next step to comprehension. Mathematics students need the opportunity to discuss and investigate solutions and apply mathematical vocabulary in their writing and their thinking. When students have an opportunity to write about their thinking through the problem-solving process, they become much better at constructing meaning and understanding of the mathematics concepts and not just the mathematics operation. Sample literacy tasks for mathematics students: Understand processes Grasp abstract concepts and translate them into symbols Distinguish patterns Decode words and numeric and nonnumeric symbols Translate words into problems and problems into words Use journals to write about and examine ideas and reflect on solutions Write paragraphs to compare key concepts, such as a line and a plane The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 8
11 Reading and Writing in English Language Arts English teachers are often misidentified as the reading teachers. The reality is the content of English language arts is literature, grammar, and certain forms of academic writing (e.g., essay, short story, critique). Typically, the focus is on teaching students the literary devices of fiction and nonfiction genres such as characterization, plot, setting, figurative language, symbolism, and theme. Yet, English teachers also have the responsibility to teach how to read, productively discuss, and write about literary works, not just to assign the reading or to teach the content of the reading. Because English language arts depend so heavily on being able to read and comprehend complex literary text, it is critical that English teachers know and teach their students specific learning strategies to help them learn how to construct meaning; analyze devices like characterization, theme, and plot; develop new vocabulary; and make inferences. The English teacher also has a prime opportunity to encourage a love of reading by providing choice and a wide variety of reading materials (Wright, 1998). Too often, teachers are focused on assigning literature from required reading lists instead of motivating students to read. Student interests should guide the selection of reading materials, and how to select reading material or books should be an important support provided to students. Students need a print-rich environment with high-interest adolescent literature and selections that cater to a wide range of reading levels and connect with the cultural backgrounds and interests of students. The research of Wilhelm and others also strongly supports the need to provide an array of nonfiction materials within the English classroom. Nonfiction genres applicable to the English classroom include biography and autobiography, journalistic writing formats including newspaper articles, and factual accounts students can compare and contrast with fictional representation of similar content. Although some teachers see read-alouds as a strategy only for younger students, secondary English teachers can connect easily with all students when they read aloud. Students enjoy hearing the voice of a fluent, expressive reader and will often be more eager to continue reading on their own if the teacher has used a read-aloud as a way to generate interest. Short book talks, quick verbal overviews of the books displayed in the classroom, and student sharing of their favorites through creative venues, like improvised TV interviews, can also inspire students to read for pleasure as well as learning. Students need the opportunity to deeply discuss and write about good literature. Collaborative group exploration of a piece of literature provides an opportunity for student engagement while they discuss, construct meaning, and take ownership for their understanding of the text. Literature circles, reciprocal teaching, and other collaborative group strategies support cooperation, inquiry, problem solving, and communication skills that are so important for adolescents. At the same time, these instructional strategies develop students abilities to effectively use the literacy and learning strategies of reading, writing, discussing, listening, and investigating to learn new content. Exposure to an array of fiction and nonfiction genres is also essential, and students benefit when they learn specific techniques for constructing meaning and critically responding to ideas and concepts for the various types of genre through writing and discussion. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 9
12 Sample literacy tasks for English language arts students: Articulate thinking orally and in writing for various audiences Understand mechanical standards and rhetorical techniques Employ context clues Recognize literacy devices Understand how to read different literary genres Develop fluency with the use of the writing process to generate different types of writing Encourage the reading/writing connection to persuade, learn, inform, and evoke feelings Strategic Teaching The second part of this Guide details numerous instructional strategies that will help students develop literacy skills and better understand content. However, the strategies will not have much of an impact unless teachers use them deliberately as part of a routine of best practice. Strategic Teaching effectively combines teacher behaviors and instructional practices to support student learning and understanding of concepts and texts. The strategic teaching model is effective because: 1) Students need time to practice learning strategies to support reading and understanding of text. Strategic teachers model strategies and scaffold instruction to support students as they internalize those strategies. The simple formula for scaffolding instruction is I do, We do, You do (Rosenshine, Meister, & Chapman, 1996). 2) Adolescents are social beings, and reading and learning are social behaviors. Interactive collaborative protocols, such as reciprocal teaching, think-pair-share, and other small group strategies, encourage student talk and deep discussions connected with learning content material. Collaborative grouping strategies provide opportunities for students to deeply discuss concepts presented in the text and to interact with one another at a level that assures comprehension and understanding. (Rosenshine & Meister, 1994; National Reading Panel, 2002; Applebee, A. N., Langer, J. A., Nystrand, M., & Gamoran, A., 2003; Guthrie et al., 2004). 3) Students need frequent opportunities to make connections with text. Using linked strategies to support reading, writing, thinking, and deep discussion about the text is a critical instructional practice that leads to student understanding. Strategic teachers routinely employ instructional strategies that help students make connections with the text before, during, and after reading and learning as an integral part of content area instruction. The instructional strategies a teacher chooses will depend on the purpose of the lesson, the nature of the material being studied, and student data. The National Reading Panel (2002) strongly recommends including instructional strategies to support students with monitoring comprehension; using graphic organizers, generating questions, answering questions; using text structure; summarizing, activating prior knowledge, developing vocabulary, listening, and visualizing. The strategic teaching model (Fig. 1) synthesizes the work of adolescent literacy researchers and practitioners. Although a simple model, the concepts and ideas portrayed in the graphic are complex and should serve as a reminder, when lessons are planned, to include those instructional strategies that best connect students with learning strategies. The result will be students who better comprehend textual The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 10
13 concepts and information. A reference list is provided at the end of this Guide to serve as a resource for further reading and powerful discussions among educators. The graphic below illustrates the Strategic Teaching Model and is taken from Creating a Culture of Literacy: A Guide for Middle and High School Principals, p. 46. (2005). Reston, VA: National Association of Secondary Principals. Figure 1 Best Practices Frameworks In addition to strategic teaching, effective teachers support students with instructional strategies used within a best practices framework that connects literacy support with the instructional goals and the types of texts being read. Before, During, and After A best practice framework that fits most lessons or units is the before, during, and after reading framework. Use of this framework assists students at varying reading levels in making the important The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 11
14 connections proficient readers use when reading for meaning. Instructional strategies for each stage (before, during, after) of the reading/learning process are discussed below. The content teacher already supports most of these learning proficiencies with content-specific learning activities and pedagogy. Adding specific learning strategies enhances general instructional strategies by providing specific howto support. Such procedures, templates, or approaches show the students how to achieve content objectives, instead of attempting to complete an assignment without a plan in mind. Planning strategic lessons has similarities across all content areas. Although the literacy tasks and intensity of use by the specific content area may differ, the following descriptions for planning content lessons can be easily adapted to fit the needs of specific content areas. It takes time for teachers to learn how to effectively incorporate the literacy support strategies at the end of this Guide into daily classroom practice. The best model for becoming proficient with planning strategic lessons is when teachers work collaboratively within or across content areas to support one another to implement strategic teaching. The following charts are adapted from the Alabama Reading Initiative-Project for Adolescent Literacy training guide, Planning Strategic Lessons: A Step by Step Guide (ALSDE, 2007). 1) Before reading/learning instructional strategies to guide content learning Preparing learners to be ready for content learning involves a variety of actions: Activating prior knowledge by considering what is already known about a content topic and linking new information to it in the brain. Setting purpose and generating questions for learning, such as to gain information; read for pleasure; learn a step-by-step process; or understand the historical relevance. Previewing to ascertain how text features, graphs and charts, appendices, and other text structures can contribute to the reader s understanding. Making predictions about what might happen; adjusting these predictions as new information is presented, and discarding them when faced with contradictory information. Teacher Instructional Practices Before Reading Sample Activities for Students Teachers must: Help students activate their background knowledge. Help students establish purposes for reading. Encourage students to generate questions. Ask students to make predictions about text. Help students construct graphic organizers. Connect reading and writing. Source: Fuentes 1998, p. 83. Students will: Brainstorm concepts, key words, and ideas. Establish reading goals based upon purpose for reading. Turn headings into questions. Predict and verify based on scan or preview of content. Construct a graphic organizer based on text structure to use during reading. Write in a journal, vocabulary notebook, or other forms to connect with the text to be read. 2) During reading/learning literacy instructional strategies to guide content learning Helping learners comprehend content information and construct concepts and relationships involves a variety of actions: Questioning to clarify and deepen understanding. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 12
15 Monitoring understanding and using fix-up strategies when they do not understand, such as rereading, reading on, or examining a word more closely. Making connections when they use information from personal experiences, other texts, and knowledge of world issues to make sense of text. Inferring by using prior knowledge to get a deeper understanding of text and making valuable connections with the author s intent when the answer may not be explicitly stated. Drawing conclusions and refining them as needed in light of additional information. Summarizing what they have read by stopping and reflecting during and after reading. Creating mental images or visualizing by seeing people, events, and relationships between concepts, but also using other senses (hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling) as they experience the meanings they build from text. Analyzing story structure and informational text structures and using these structures as supports for building meaning. Synthesizing by combining ideas and information within and across texts. Teacher Instructional Practices During Reading Activities for Students Teachers must: Model metacognitive and cognitive processes. Verify and/or formulate predictions. Help students integrate new data with prior knowledge. Get students to think about what they are reading. Help students construct graphic organizers. Summarize text. Read aloud. Think aloud. Students will: Find answers to self-initiated questions. Read silently. Read with a partner. Predict and verify. Re-read if necessary. Take notes. Construct and use graphic organizers. Source: Fuentes 1998, 83. 3) After reading/learning instructional strategies to guide content learning Helping learners reflect about the content involves a variety of actions: Reflecting about what was read on personal, emotional, and cognitive levels. Reviewing information, ideas, relationships, and applications to real life by re-reading, summarizing, and deep discussion with others. Presenting understanding of concepts learned through the informal and formal written and spoken word, including small group classroom venues and authentic audiences. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 13
16 Teacher Instructional Practices After Reading Sample Activities for Students Teachers must: Encourage students to reflect on what they read. Prompt students to evaluate predictions. Examine questions that guided reading. Require students to respond to text through discussion. Require students to respond to text through writing. Encourage retelling or summarizing. Connect writing to reading. Students will: Discuss. Debate. Respond to questions. Verify predictions. Construct a graphic organizer. Write in a journal. Retell. Summarize. Role play. Research. Read related materials. Source: Fuentes 1998, 83. Gradual Release Framework A second best practice framework for content area literacy is the gradual release model (I do, We do, You do). That is, teachers need to explicitly teach and model a literacy support strategy. It is important when introducing a learning strategy that teachers explain what the strategy is supposed to help students do (e.g., learning to effectively set a purpose for reading, learning to make inferences, learning to summarize). Then students need opportunities to practice the strategy in pairs or small groups and have time to examine how the strategy was useful and what it supported. They should also be given the opportunity to ask questions and to get feedback on the quality of their work. Only then should students be asked to implement a literacy strategy independently. It is important to note that the gradual release process does not always occur within one lesson. The teacher may need to model the process several times before the students actually take ownership of the literacy strategy. Becoming proficient and selecting the strategy as a support for reading content material may take longer for some students than others. The teacher s continued support through explicit modeling and differentiation is key for students at all levels. Planning Strategic Literacy-Based Lessons When planning strategic lessons, it is important to understand the purpose of the lesson and what the students will be able to do as a result of the lesson. Carefully consider the components of the strategic teaching model and the gradual release framework. Select before, during, and after literacy learning strategy/ies that best support the lesson outcome and plan instructional strategies that will help students connect with the purpose of the strategy/ies and better learn content. The choice of instructional strategy is important and should be carefully considered to make sure it truly fits the purpose of the lesson. The following steps will be helpful reminders as you design your lessons. Step 1: Plan a Before Reading Activity What is the purpose of before reading activities? Is it to: Activate prior knowledge? The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 14
17 Build background knowledge? Generate questions? Make predictions? Discuss vocabulary? Establish a purpose for reading? Consider the content of the lesson: Is it a new concept to most of the students? If so, plan an activity that will allow students to build some background knowledge about the concepts. Is it a review of content students are familiar with? If so, select a strategy that will help students activate prior knowledge. Is there vocabulary in the lesson that may cause interference to understanding? If so, select an activity to explore and discuss unfamiliar words. Step 2: Plan a During Reading Activity What is the purpose of during reading activities? Is it to: Engage with text? Verify and formulate predictions? Summarize text? Self-monitor comprehension? Construct graphic organizers? Use mental imagery? Integrate new information with prior knowledge? Consider the content of the lesson: Is the text challenging? If so, choose an activity that will require students to stop periodically as they read, reflect about what they have read, and self-monitor for understanding. Does the text structure present challenges to student understanding? If so, consider chunking (dividing into small sections) the text and choosing an activity that will allow small collaborative reading and sharing of the text to identify important information before large group discussion. Step 3: Plan an After Reading Activity What is the purpose of the after reading activities? Is it to: Reflect on the content of the lesson? Evaluate predictions? Examine questions that guided reading? Respond to text through writing? Retell or summarize? Consider the content of the lesson: Does the lesson build upon previous learning? If so, consider an activity that allows students to make connections and evaluate new information. Does the content lend itself to visual representations? If so, consider providing students with graphic organizers as a format for organizing information and concepts. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 15
18 Does the content contain challenging vocabulary? If so, consider an activity that will lead to student ownership and understanding of the important vocabulary. Is the content open to interpretation? If so, consider activities that will promote discussion and critical thinking. A planning worksheet for strategic lessons may look like the following template. The template is only a suggestion, but the format serves as a reminder to select instructional strategies that support students as they prepare, engage, and think about complex content text. Planning Template for Connecting Before, During, and After Reading/Learning Strategies Instructional Outcomes Lesson: Standard/s: Content Learning Outcome: Literacy Instructional/Learning Strategy/ies: Before reading/learning: Materials: During reading/learning: Materials: After reading/learning: Materials: Before Reading/Learning Literacy Outcome: Teacher facilitation: During Content Reading/Learning Literacy Outcome: Teacher facilitation: After Reading/Learning Literacy Outcome: Teacher facilitation: Next Steps: The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 16
19 Examples of completed lessons in each of the core content areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies are provided in the lesson plan section of the CCSSO Toolkit. A lesson narrative that depicts the classroom environment and implementation of the lesson plan is also provided for each of the twelve lessons. The lesson plans illustrate the best practices framework for using strategies to support all three phases of the reading/learning process. Most lesson plans also demonstrate the gradual release framework. The literacy learning strategies provided in this Guide may be used across all content areas and they support students in developing key academic literacy habits and skills. These strategies are easy to learn and implement. Each can be used as a stand-alone strategy to support before, during, or after comprehension and critical response to content information and concepts. Most can be used in combination with one another. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 17
20 PART II: LITERACY INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES This section defines various literacy instructional strategies. Each literacy strategy is described and cited with its originator, when available, since some of the strategies are synthesized from the work and research of several individuals. A list of purposes and benefits is provided to help teachers determine when use of a specific literacy strategy is most appropriate. Step-by-step directions for using the strategy in the classroom are listed along with several ideas for extending or differentiating the use of the strategies. Following each strategy description is a quadrant chart, Cross Content Sample, which illustrates how each strategy might be used in a high school English, mathematics, science, or social studies class. Teachers are encouraged to read all four quadrants to see various examples of how the strategy can be used before, during, and after reading/learning. Teachers may shape and modify the strategies as needed to best support the learning strategies and content knowledge they want students to learn. To summarize, the strategies are presented in the following order: The Semantic Feature Analysis Chart provides an overview of the 25 suggested strategies and the purposes for using them. Each Literacy Support Strategy lists the description, purpose, and directions for use. Each strategy has a Cross-Content Sample with instructions on how to use the strategy in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. To deepen teacher understanding of how the literacy support strategies are used within a content lesson, many are described in detail in one or more of the core content lesson plans found in the lesson plan section of this Toolkit. Each lesson plan is accompanied by a lesson narrative, which illustrates how a teacher would teach the lesson, including the step-by-step process for before, during, and after learning. Lesson narratives also show student responses, illustrate how to engage students in learning by using the strategy, and identify what classroom interactions preceded and followed the lesson. When trying to learn the strategies in isolation, it is not unusual for teachers to feel somewhat overwhelmed by the number of literacy strategies to choose from or how to implement those strategies into daily instruction. If this is true for you, begin with planning and practicing the use of one literacy strategy with your students and, as you become proficient with this strategy, you can add other strategies to your bag of instructional best practices. Of course, it is always less threatening and more productive if you are working with a peer or team of professionals to discuss the use of literacy support strategies and how to best integrate them into daily practice. Develop opportunities for shared teaching with a peer to observe and provide, as well as receive, feedback about becoming a strategic teacher. The content for this component of CCSSO s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was provided by Public Consulting Group s Center for Resource 18
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Continuing from our last episode, (here) after being attacked by agents of the 4th Reich, three members of Eight Ball Command have fled into the jungle.
The Odeco support office has been destroyed, and the Nazi's have them outgunned at the settlement. To change the direction of the investigation, Tech Sgt. Bont has intercepted some encrypted signals coming from the interior of the continent. As there are no charted settlements there, our party begins to follow a network of trails and hike in that direction. Hopefully there are some answers at the other end.
The hike is grinding. The jungle terrain is difficult and the temperature is soaring.
A few days into the trek, a humanoid known as a "Honschu", steps out hiding, and greets them with a ceremonial welcome and challenge. The translation would approximate, "Hello Stranger, all of the gods blessings for your journey. However, these are Honschu lands, and you will not violate them without permission. Peace be with you, and be on your way."Without a second's pause, Sgt. Mannesmann gives the traditional response… in Honschu, "Thank-you for your goodwill. May the gods bless you as well. We are of the people, and ask for passage."
Rendered speechless by the surprise, the Honschu looks at them for a hard minute. Then breaks into laughter
Sgt. Mannesmann continues, "We have fought, broken bread, and shared with one of your Honschu kinsman before. As you can see, we have even learned your language from him. However, I must confess, we did not know Honschu were settled on this planet."
"A friend of the kin is a friend. Yes, Honschu have lived here for a thousand years. You are welcome, much welcome, come with me."
To be continued…
So, giant trees and jungle,
Started with this
Then I used butcher paper and watered down white glue for a paper mache' technique to add texture to the trunks. Below is a picture after painting and flocking, but before I added the vegetation. As you can see the concept was extensively tested by my son and his transformer collection...
Then I added a huge amount of cheap plastic plants hung off of floral wire and came out the other side with 5 of these
Thanks for looking!


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I stay 7 nights in Cagliari and had a great experience at the Pittoresco B&B. The accommodation is well located with bus around, beach not too far, center really close. The tenant is nice and understanding, the place is clean. I strongly recommend!
Getting you more information on this room
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"Some rooms are own bathrooms, some with shared accomondation. The same with balkony.."
"We had a shared bathroom but had a sneak peek at the en suit bathroom and that looked lovely."


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