K-5 Digital

Portfolio Protocol

Original Candler County Writing (Literacy) Portfolio Transition Process

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1) Each student will have a writing portfolio

2) Writing will be added to the folder each year in accordance with the Candler County Writing Plan

3) The checklist attached shows the types of writing that is to be added to the folder each year. It is guided by the Georgia Department of Education frameworks, Georgia Performance Standards, Common Core Georgia Performance Standards, and the focus for each grade level.

4) At the end of the year, the writing folder will be passed to next year’s teacher in vertical PLC meetings so that the writing folder follows the student from year to year, school to school.

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Original Candler County Writing (Literacy) Portfolio Transition Process

5) These meetings should occur in post-planning if next year’s rolls have been made or in pre-planning of the following school term when rolls are available.

6) Student essays will provide a wealth of exemplar papers for teachers to use to guide instruction.

7) Rigor will be increased in each grade level as teachers analyze what the students produced the year before and plan instruction accordingly.

8) The writing portfolio will house the following:

· Writing Checklist

· Scoring Rubrics with teacher feedback attached to each essay

· Student Writing Pieces

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Going digital...

• Now that we have agreed to transition to digital writing portfolios, some procedural elements will change. This does not mean that the types of writing or the expected number of pieces have changed.
• While we only require one published piece per genre to be passed to the next grade, one written piece per genre hardly gives students enough time to become proficient writers
• Please see the following slides for a reminder of what is expected at each grade level

Whether completing the writing piece in google docs, or using pencil and paper, student samples should be housed in a folder on google drive

Which samples should be included and why?

• Cold writes provide a clear picture of what students can do independently
• Samples of student work included in the portfolio should be indicative of what the student is capable of
• Independent work samples serve as formative pieces for teachers receiving the portfolios
• These samples should be used at the beginning of the year as a “jumping off” point for writing conferences
• They can also serve as an illustration of student growth from one point to the next

Steps for uploading typed student work samples

create a new folder by clicking on the folder icon

Select “Move this item”

Select “My drive”

Create a new folder

Title the folder “writing Portfolio” and click the check

Type the appropriate grade and click on the check

Once you are in the grade-level folder, Click “Move here”

To add another piece to the folder, open the piece and click the “organize” folder

Click “Move this item”

Click the folder icon again to create a grade-level folder

Click “My drive”

Select “writing portfolio”

Select the appropriate grade

click “move here”

The selected writing piece is now in the writing portfolio

Steps for uploading pencil and paper writing

On an ipad, have students open the google drive app

Select “sign in”

have students enter their google credentials

Tap the “+”

Select “Folder”

Name the folder “Writing Portfolio” and select “Create”

Open the “writing portfolio” folder

Select the “+” to create a new folder within the folder

Select “Folder”

Type the appropriate grade level and select “create”

Open the grade-level folder

Tap the “+”

Select “Use Camera”

place the paper and pencil writing piece flat and take a photo

tap “use photo”

now that the piece is in the folder, you must rename it. Select the 3 dots beside the image that you wish to rename

Select “rename”

Type the appropriate genre

Now that the writing sample is in the folder, you must follow the same steps to attach a completed rubric

Steps for creating a mock writing assessment using google classroom

Create a Google Doc that includes the following (template)

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• The genre of the assigned writing piece
• A writing prompt based on the genre
• Nonfiction text(s) from which to cite evidence (opinion and informational only, paired passages in grades 3-5)
• A student writing checklist
• A copy of the rubric that will be used to assess the writing
• Click here for a sample template

Click the + button

Click “Create assignment”

use the genre to name the assignment (informational, opinion, or narrative)

then click on the google drive icon to add the writing assignment template

Select the template into which the students will type

select “make a copy for each student”

Finally, click “assign”