PSELA4c: Organizes and implements a writing portfolio program that promotes high quality writing by including a variety of instructional strategies and topics to teach purposes, structures, and composition
Evidence 1: Photograph
Description: This is a photograph of the shelf where portfolios for each of my students are kept.
Analysis: Pieces are submitted to student's portfolios in two ways in my classroom. There are times during center time when I will share a story with the children. After engaging in discussion regarding what we have read, I will ask my students to draw a picture that relates to what we have read or discussed. When children finish, I write their words at the top of the page. The other way in which items are added to a portfolio, is when a child creates a piece of work and asks to have it submitted. I will fill out a Portfolio Submission Form with the student asking them to describe the item they are submitting and why it is important to them.
Evidence 2: Transcript of Go Fish Conversation
Description: This conversation occurred with a four year old while playing Go Fish.
Analysis: While we were playing Go Fish, a child kept asking me for the number Q. Each time she asked me for that card, I would respond with, "I don't have the letter Q. Go fish." As this game has continued over the past few months, the child has transitioned from identifying Q as a number and now calls it a letter. We are now working on the letters K and J while playing that game.
Description: These are photographs of children holding their writing utensils in a tripod grip for greater control while writing.
Analysis: When children begin the year in preschool, they usually use their entire hand to grasp their writing utensils. This grip is accompanied by wide arm strokes that limits fine motor control over the writing tool. I aid children in building fine motor control and show them how tohold their pencil strong by holding it by the tripod grip. This allows children to have greater control over their writing utensil and create smaller and finer strokes.
Evidence 3: Tripod Grip Photographs
