DD was in 1st grade when I applied. The first portfolio included a bunch of reading worksheets that I got off the web that were labeled as being fourth and fifth grade level (both fiction and non-fiction passages), along with a scan of a short story she wrote in after-care one day. I also had a video of her reading out of the Madeline L'Engle book A Wizard of Earthsea and answering questions about it.
The second round included a recorded conversation I had with her about the Ray Bradbury short story "All Summer in a Day." It also included artwork that she did, a long narrative recommendation from my husband, and her Woodcock-Johnson Achievement, which didn't qualify, but had scores over 99%.
I suspect that part of the problem is that a lot of what I provided was receptive and not productive-- comprehension questions, talking about what she read. But while I consider her to be verbally precocious to a certain extent, she's not excessively verbally creative, so there's not a lot of product in that area. I wish there was a way to capture her entrepreneurialism--when she wants to learn something, she just does it. She taught herself to sew at 6 because it was something she was interested in. She's sitting at the piano right now teaching herself to read music with a book I bought an hour ago. She's very interested in science, but more in a natural science sort of way.
Sadly, I think it might be easier if your child is a math/engineering/physics type kid.
Last edited by staceychev; 01/26/13 03:49 PM.
