FOLKTALE RUBRIC

Name:  _______________

Date: _________________

Title of Work: ___________________

Criteria

Student completed each

Stage in the writing process

Student completed two or less stages.                                       1

Student completed three stages.                                                2

Student completed four stages.                                                  3

Student completed all five stages.                                               4

Topic and Supporting Ideas

Student did not follow topic and needs to start over.                     1

Student followed topic, but supporting ideas are weak.                 2

Student followed topic and included supporting ideas.                  3

Use of Descriptive Words

Student has three of less descriptive words.                                1

Student has 10 or more descriptive words.                                  2

Mechanics

Student has 10 or more punctuation of capitalization mistakes.                       1

Student has 6-9 punctuation or capitalization mistakes.                                  2

Student has 3-5 punctuation or capitalization mistakes.                                  3

Student has 2 or less punctuation or capitalization mistakes.                           4

Organization

Student has made no attempt of a beginning, middle, end or use of transition words.     0

Student has clear beginning, middle, end but attempted to use transition words.             2

Student has a clear beginning, middle, end and effective use of transition word.             3

Technology

Student typed story in MS Word including font changes (size & style)            2

Student inserted word art (need minimum of 1)                                              1

Student inserted clip art (need minimum of 2)                                                2

Student incorporated font color changes (need minimum of 1)                       1

Student incorporated bold, underline & italics (use 1 of each)                        3

Points:  __________

Teacher Comments:  __________________________________________