Description
Étude Middle School students will explore ideas about society, the world at large, and themselves as growing human beings through literature and written communication. Students will share their analyses, reflections, and critiques of literature through a digital reading portfolio using Google Sites. These portfolios are not only meant to document their reading and writing progress but also reveal their growth as writers, thinkers, innovators throughout the school year.
Reading Portfolio Rubrics
Étude Middle School students will explore ideas about society, the world at large, and themselves as growing human beings through literature and written communication. Students will share their analyses, reflections, and critiques of literature through a digital reading portfolio using Google Sites. These portfolios are not only meant to document their reading and writing progress but also reveal their growth as writers, thinkers, innovators throughout the school year.
Reading Portfolio Rubrics
- Reader's Profile
- Book Reviews
- Artifact Reflections
activities
Design Board
Before you begin creating your reading portfolio, complete the CSI: Color, Symbol, Image thinking routine:
Based on your responses to the CSI, you will create a design board that will serve as the inspiration for the aesthetic appearance of your reading portfolio:
Day 1 | FirstName LastInitial’s ÉMS Reading Portfolio
Create a new Google Site. Right now we are going to work on following along with what I do then replicate in your own Site. Please do not start messing around with themes or colors. You will have plenty of opportunities for that down the road.
Here are some websites with free website images you can use in your portfolio header. To do so click on the Change Image tab in the header and Select Image:
Before you begin creating your reading portfolio, complete the CSI: Color, Symbol, Image thinking routine:
- Color: What color(s) represent you as an individual? Your personality? Your attitude toward life? Why?
- Symbol: Create a symbol that represents something that is important to you in life. What does this symbol say about you as an individual?
- Image: Create an image that portrays the image of the future you want. What does this image say about you as an individual?
Based on your responses to the CSI, you will create a design board that will serve as the inspiration for the aesthetic appearance of your reading portfolio:
- CSI: What colors will you include in your portfolio? What is the background color? How will those colors represent you as the designer? How will those colors impact your audiences' experience with your portfolio?
- Link colors
- Title colors
- Font colors
- Background colors
- Tab colors
- Metaphor (Symbols + Images): How will your portfolio demonstrate your metaphor? How will the metaphor be portrayed on your website?
- Texts: What type of fonts will be found in your portfolio? If you use different fonts, how do those fonts interact with one another? What font colors exist in the portfolio?
Theme: What is the overall message of the portfolio? What do you want your viewers to understand about you as a reader, learner, thinker?
Day 1 | FirstName LastInitial’s ÉMS Reading Portfolio
Create a new Google Site. Right now we are going to work on following along with what I do then replicate in your own Site. Please do not start messing around with themes or colors. You will have plenty of opportunities for that down the road.
- Name your Site Document FirstName LastInitial’s ÉMS Reading Portfolio
- Rename “Your page title” the same thing, FirstName LastInitial’s ÉMS Reading Portfolio
- In the white space below your header (this is the banner your just title FirstName LastInitial’s ÉMS Reading Portfolio), click and drag the Layout with one picture over.
- In the Title Box, name it About Me. A picture of your design board will go in the picture box. Your mini-artist statement will go in the text box
Here are some websites with free website images you can use in your portfolio header. To do so click on the Change Image tab in the header and Select Image: