Advanced English
Portfolio Rubric: Your advancement toward strong and varied language skills in English
Vocabulary use
Advanced
9 or 10
Formal speaking
able 1
to make use of language subtleties, such
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as humor, idioms and irony.
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the audience.
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Achieving
intermediate
8 or 9
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speech
Regularly integrates new vocabulary into
writing
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Consistently uses strategies to decode
thinking in English.
intermediate
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beginner
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Contributes
facts and restates ideas in a literal way.
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Writing
Uses and
synthesizes
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35 information from
non-academic genres to enrich work
Understands language subtleties such as
humor, idioms
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and stylistic level. Check Box 35
Articulates new ideas and original thinking beyond
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lanaguage
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Writes organized essays using academic
conventions.
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Shows
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45basic self-editing in work. Check Box 45
Constistenly uses sentences correctly.
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with
substantial
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12from written work.
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with teacher
21 support and
demonstrates comprehension.
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from written work.
Listens attentively to others.
Reads and understands short works
Writes short summaries of other works in
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Gives short "yes" or "no" answers to questions
help from
written
work ( mostly reading)
of fiction with
complete sentences.
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21 support and
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Contributes some simple phrases in discussions
demonstrates comprehension.
Writes
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ideas to show essential meaning
Reading
Analyzes works of poetry effectively
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Able to present synthesized information
support
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in an organized, academic manner.
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Achieving
Articulates
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Developing
Developing
beginner
Score: ______/61
After you have checked the points that you believe you have demonstrated competency for and scored yourself for your current level, answer these questions:
What have you improved on most during this partial (or, if this is the 4th partial, during the semester)?
What aspects of your English do you think still needs more work?
What aspect of your portfolio are you most proud of so far? Why?
What aspect of your portfolio do you think needs the most improvement? Why?
Your portfolio will include work that you have done all throughout the semester. You will not include all assignments and work i
Once each partial, you will have time to meet with the teacher, discuss your portfolio and your general improvement in English
TO BEGIN: Get the following materials together in one pl For the first 3 partials, you will NOT be graded on your portfolio base
Floppy disk
4 copies of this rubric (one for each partial)
Your Final partial grade will be based directly on this rubric and is wo
Videotape
Cassette
Large binder that can hold ALL materials in an organized manner
t include all assignments and work in your porfolio, but will choose the best work you have done that shows master of all the steps up to an
our general improvement in English during the semester. During the fourth and final partial, you will turn in your final portfolio. On that day, y
OT be graded on your portfolio based on this rubric. Your first 3 partial portfolio grades will be based on THE PROGRESS YOU MAKE.
ows master of all the steps up to and within your target level. You will be responsible not only for saving your work and choosing the most re
in your final portfolio. On that day, you will meet with the teacher to present your portfolio and to grade your own work in the class. You will
your work and choosing the most representative work during the semester, but also for bring videotaping materials to classes in which you
your own work in the class. You will be asked to explain what you have improved upon during the course and to defend the level you believ
ng materials to classes in which you intend to demonstrate strong formal speaking skills. and audiotaping materials for days in which you int
se and to defend the level you believe you have acheived. The teacher will either approve your level or make changes (which may be higher
g materials for days in which you intend to demonstrate strong informal speaking skills.
make changes (which may be higher or lower than your target level) according to her perspective. You will have the chance to discuss your l
ill have the chance to discuss your level, but the final level is determined by the teacher. Your level will determine 60% of your grade in this