Select a struggling reader from grade 2 to 12 to focus instructional strategies and assessments. Practice administering assessments to this student and house them in the portfolio to demonstrate application. Using the same student throughout the portfolio will allow for a streamlining of strategies and a cohesiveness among the items used to demonstrate your competencies.
Choose and include materials that demonstrate understanding, application, and working knowledge of assessment for the grade-level of the student selected, and for reading assessment in general. Include both formal and informal assessments such as Basic Reading Inventories, Running Records, and state standardized assessments.
Include anonymous versions of completed tests with well-written summaries of results to include student strengths, weaknesses, and conclusions drawn. Reflect on all sessions with students in the same manner, preferably through a reflection journal with thoughts about the process, observations, anecdotal information about student performance, strengths, and noted learning needs.
Write up some best practices recommendations---strategies, teaching techniques, recommended practices for addressing specific learning needs. Create web links to research that supports the practices recommended in the summaries.
Align recommended practices with state and national standards. Create a spreadsheet with two columns: one for standards, the other for recommended practices as they align with the standard. This will demonstrate that you know what the state's expectations are and how to align them to best teaching practices as they meet the needs of your students.
Include course grades, transcripts, and recommendations from professors and teaching supervisors to demonstrate mastery of concepts learned about assessments, teaching, and meeting the needs of learners.