Pitt County Schools

Writing Portfolio Guidelines Revised 2011

Final Product Writing Portfolio Checklist

Grade 4

Name: ______Date: ______

Teacher: ______School: ______

Product
Number / Type of Document / Date Completed
1
2 / Personal Experience Narrative – on demand
Personal Experience Narrative – shows writing process / October / March
3
4 / Imaginative Narrative – on demand
Imaginative Narrative – shows writing process / October / March
5 / Research Report/Multimedia Project*
Student selects a topic to write ONE research report. Write a short informative/explanatory piece about a topic of your choice, quoting accurately from the texts. Conduct research that uses several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. Publish it and present it in a multimedia format to the class. Examples of multimedia include, but are not limited to: PowerPoint, interactive whiteboard presentations, Photo Story, Movie Maker, Blogs, Podcast, etc. Report should include a bibliography/works cited with at least three resources (print and non-print). * Suggested 1 – 2 pages, hand written OR word processed
6 / Persuasive Essay *
Science or Social Studies
Write opinion piece on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
7 / Reading Response to Story or Poetry
Student selects ONE response to text that has been read or heard.The response should reflect analytical thinking. The learner will examine text to explore or better understand a variety of literature. / BOY / MOY / EOY
8 / TRC Writing Response / BOY / MOY / EOY
9 / Spelling Inventory
Staple in Writing Portfolio / BOY / MOY / EOY

*Products 5 OR 6 should show planning, drafting, conferencing, revising, editing and closure/publishing for piece of writing.

**The Mid-year check will observe the writing within a student’s working portfolio (i.e.: writing notebook).

****The End-of-year check will observe student selected work placed within the official writing portfolio folder & will be completed before EOG testing, with data from both content area and on demand tasks entered into DPI.

◊DPI will provide On-Demand Prompts(either a personal or imaginative narrative) one in the fall and one in the spring these are to be scored using DPI Rubrics. Scores are to be entered into the DPI Accountability Spreadsheet.Teachers should provide the genre not provided by DPI.

*A Total of four products per student (two on-demand prompts, the research paper and content task) will be scored using the DPI Rubrics,two products in the fall and two products in the spring.Data should be entered into DPI Accountability Spreadsheet as soon as tasks are completed.

*Fourth grade exemplars for personal/imaginative narrative and letter writing are found in Narrative Writing training materials.