Children's Book Rubric

Students Name:

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Criteria

Excellent

Very Good

Good

Needs improvement

Cover Page

Cover page has 1a graphic or fancy handwriting,2. title, 3. author's name, and 4. picture.

Cover page has 3 of the 4 required elements.

Cover page has 2 of the 4 required elements..

Cover page has 1 of the elements. required

Neatness

The

story

is clean,

The

story

is

The

story

is

The story is not neat or attractive. It is messy.

readable,

readable, neat and attractive, but lacks overall presentation.

readable and some of the pages are attractive. It looks like parts of it

neat and has an attractive layout.

might have been done in a hurry.

Organization

The story is very well organized.

The story is pretty well One organized. idea may

The story is a little hard to follow. It does not have a clear beginning

Ideas seem to be randomly arranged. It does not have a beginning middle or ending.

One idea follows another in a logical sequence. beginning and ending. It has middle

seem out of place. It has beginning

middle or ending.

middle and ending.

Content

The story includes

The

student

The student only

The

student

does

include information about includes two of the includes one of the not following aspects: following aspects: information about the transportation, place of interest, and aspects. cultural information about information about the place and aspects. transportation, of interest, cultural the transportation, place of interest, and aspects. cultural the transportation, place of interest, and aspects. cultural

Grammar Structures

Excellent structure and Above accuracy. average

Many grammatical structures

correct

Many

incorrect

Few sentences are structurally correct generally

grammatical with elements structure. and

and

are

use of verbs and other grammatical elements.

some errors.

incomprehensible.

Vocabulary.

The

student

Some

variety

of

Lacks

some

Lacks

basic

applied 15 words minimum from the vocabulary: spelling meaning of and the

vocabulary

(from

vocabulary (5- 9 wrods) and some mistakes spelling meaning vocabulary. of in and the

vocabulary (1 5 words) and

10 14 words) with few mistakes in spelling of and the

mistakes in spelling and meaning of the vocabulary throughout story. the

meaning vocabulary.

vocabulary are use correctly.

Task Completion

Student

has

Student

has

Student

has

Student

has

completed 4 pages to their story, with pictures, and text.

completed 3 pages to their story, with pictures.

completed 2 pages with pictures.

completed 1 page of his or her story.

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