46 SRA FLEX LITERACY ™ IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
comprehending and interacting with informational text. Students create Foldables® to
gather research, organize academic vocabulary terms, and showcase their work,
providing an overview of their academic achievement in a Project Portfolio. Students
learn about the variety of Foldables® in the Pre-Project Lessons. The ePresentation
provides animations for creating the Foldables®. Students organize and retain all
Project Portfolios to review and synthesize during the Capstone Project’s end of year
assessment.
Assessment
As in The Print Experience, teachers complete a set of Assessment Guides (rubrics) to
assess students’ performance in The Project Experience. These Assessment Guides
address collaboration with project team members, the writing project, and the
presentation. Students are assessed on collaboration at the end of each week; other
assessments occur only at the end of the project. Reproducible versions of the
Assessment Guides are available in Assessment Resources and in FLEXWorks, or
teachers can input scores directly into the FLEXWorks Gradebook.
Assessment Guides for The Project Experience
Collaboration
Assessment Guide
This guide assesses how well each Project Team member contributes to the
work and how successfully the team members interact with each other. Used
three times per project—after Days 5, 10, and 15.
Writing
Assessment Guide
There are three Assessment Guides for writing, one for each writing mode
(opinion, narrative, and informative writing). These assess the content and
quality of the project’s main writing assignment. This is used at the end of the
project.
Presentation
Assessment Guide
This guide assesses the content and quality of the Project Team’s
presentation, including the use of technology. This is used at the end of the
project.
Project Portfolio
Assessment Guide
This guide assesses the content and quality of the student’s work contained in
the Project Portfolio. This is aligned with the items listed on the student Action
Plan and is used at the end of the project.
Capstone Project
Each three-week lesson in the Project Experience is a step toward the Capstone
Project, a four-week assignment marking completion of the course and proficiency of
the skills it’s intended to develop. For their final projects, students will have the option
of working independently, with a partner, or with a team as they choose a topic,
research it, and compose a presentation in a medium of their choice that may be
shared with an audience.