Rubric for ELA 10A Review Name _____________________
Exceeding expectations Meeting expectations Mostly meeting expectations Not yet meeting expectations,
independently with assistance even with assistance
Strong, focused Your message is clearly on one You independently With help your message is mostly Even with help you struggle to
message topic with a strong message that is represent a clear central clear and on topic. Spend a little present a message that is clear and
engaging and suspenseful. message. more time in the pre-writing stage, on topic. Always keep your main
developing your message idea in mind and build onto it.
Style appropriate to The style and voice of your text was The style and voice of With help you create a text with a With much help you create a text
audience and carefully considered and developed your text suit your style and voice that suit your with a style and voice that
purpose to engage your intended audience intended audience and intended audience and purpose. somewhat suits your intended
and purpose. purpose. Working on making these decisions audience and purpose. As you work
on your own. on your writing, check with others
to be sure it is making sense.
Message/Meaning
Thoughtful You explicitly and thoroughly relate You effectively give With help you give basic You are having trouble giving
explanations and your explanations about multiple thoughtful explanations, explanations, somewhat relating explanations and relating your ideas
references to texts aspects of the text to the text and relating your ideas to your ideas to the text. Think about to the text. What do you need to
draw relationships to other texts the text. what you are being asked to explain? How can the text help you
and experiences. explain. How can you support your with your ideas?
ideas more fully?
Opinions that have You succinctly and insightfully You express opinions With help you express some You are having trouble expressing
scope (strengths and express multiple opinions that that address strengths opinions that address some opinions that address strengths and
weaknesses) address strengths and weaknesses and weaknesses of the strengths and weaknesses of the weaknesses of the text you are
of the text you are reviewing. You text you are reviewing text you are reviewing. Dig more reviewing. How did the text make
support your opinions with and provide support for deeply into the text. Make you feel? How did it address your
thorough and insightful evidence. your ideas. connections and think about how it purpose for reading it? What was
makes you think and feel. strong? What wasn’t?
Recognizes theme You succinctly and intuitively You independently With help you recognize and With much help you recognize and
recognize and explain connections recognize and explain explain connections between some explain basic connections between
between the details of the text and connections between of the details of the text and its some details of the text and its
its theme and support your ideas the details of the text theme. Think about the author’s theme. What do we mean by
with strong evidence. and its theme. purpose and how it impacted the theme? How do you recognize a
text you are reviewing. theme?
Identifies relevance You succinctly and intuitively You independently With help you mostly recognize You are having trouble recognizing
of literary techniques recognize and explain the relevance recognize and explain and explain the relevance of some and explaining the relevance of
(e.g. setting, of literary techniques to the overall the relevance of literary literary techniques to the overall some literary techniques to the
characters, point of effectiveness of the text. You are techniques to the overall effectiveness of the text. Explore overall effectiveness of the text.
able to analyze the relationship effectiveness of the text. more techniques. How do they What are the techniques in a text?
view, basic conflicts,
between multiple techniques and affect the effectiveness of the text? How do they affect a text? How can
plot development how they impact the overall you share your ideas about this?
and use of literary message.
elements)
Relevant, logical You have shared engaging and You independently use With help, you provided some You are having trouble providing
details to support thorough details to support your relevant, logical details details to support your message. enough details to support your
message, and suited message. Audience and purpose to support your How can you build on your ideas to message. Consider your audience
Organization and
to audience and were clearly part of your writing message, which are make your narrative be more and purpose. How can you give
Coherence
process. suited to your intended substantial? substance to your story? Spend
purpose
audience and purpose. more time in the pre-writing stage.
Logical and The body of your message is The body of your You need help to organize the body You are having trouble organizing
appropriate powerfully logical and coherent. message is logically and of your message in a logical and the body of your message in a
organization Your beginning is highly engaging coherently organized. coherent way. This work needs to logical and coherent way. Use your
and you ending leave the reader You have presented a be done in the “before” and planning tool to help you organize
with a strong sense of clear beginning, middle “during” stage of writing. better.
understanding. and end.
Smooth transitions Your topic flows eloquently from Your representation With help you create basic You are having trouble creating a
one part to the next enhancing the smoothly flows from one transitions from one part of your flow from one part of your review
overall enjoyment of the review. part to the next. You review to the next. How can you to the next. Include your plans for
effectively use take some risks and try some new transition in your map. Explore
Style and Language Choices
transitional words and transitions? ways to move from one idea to the
phrases. next.
Other cues and You intuitively use language choices Your language choices With help you choose some You are having trouble choosing
conventions that add richness, power and clarity are suitable to your language that is suitable to your language that is suitable to your
attended to to your message. You have taken message. You have used message. Explore new ways to message. Think about how you can
(syntactic, semantic, risks and tried new things! language effectively to express ideas. Spend time before make choices for the best
deliver your review. writing exploring words and communication. Spend time
lexical,
phrases. exploring examples of reviews to
graphophonic, etc.) get ideas.
Effectively uses You creatively use multiple You effectively use With help you use basic techniques You need much help to you use
techniques techniques to enhance meaning in techniques to add to add meaning to your message. techniques to add meaning to your
(flashback, your message and make your meaning to your How can you deliver your message message. Use your planning tool to
hyperbole, allegory, review highly engaging and message and engage using a variety of techniques? help you include some techniques
interesting to read. your audience in your Explore new ways to express your that will help others understand
figurative language,
story. ideas. your intended meaning. Explore the
etc.) techniques available.
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