Independent Reading Activity Rubric

Independent Reading Activity Rubric (ELA8RC1-The student reads a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books or book equivalents (approximately 1,000,000 words) per year from a variety of subject disciplines.

4 3 2 1 Part I. Vocabulary  Has a minimum of 10 words  Has a minimum of 10  Has less than 7 words  Has less than 5 words from the from the reading words from the reading from the reading reading  Has defined each word  Has defined each word  Most of the words are  Did not make an attempt to including the part of speech including the part of defined including the part define any or all of words  Has included the quote from the speech of speech including parts of speech book where the word was used  Has some quotes for some  Made very little attempt  No attempt to include quotes  Has included an original words but not all to include quotes from the was made sentence using the word  Has 9-7 original sentences story where words were  No attempt was made to write correctly.  Has les than has 9-7 used original sentences.  Underlined the word in the words underlined in  Has less than 7 original original sentence original sentences sentences.

Part II. Timeline  Has minimum of 15 points on  Has 14-10 points on timeline  Has 9-5 points on timeline  Brevity limits evaluation timeline or more  Events are fairly significant  Events are of minor  Impossible to read or  Events are significant  Timeline is neat and fairly easy importance understand (x2)  Timeline is logical ordered and to read  Timeline is difficult to visually easy to read  Timeline is reasonably logical read  Much effort went into timeline  Timeline is only is obvious. somewhat logically ordered Part III: essay  Essay has all elements  Essay has most elements  Essay missing elements  Brevity of work limits  Essay is in correct  Essay is in correct multiple  Format not following evaluation multiple paragraph format paragraph format guidelines  Missing major elements  Essay contains at least 3  Essay has at least 2 pieces of  Has 1 or fewer pieces of textual  Punctuation, grammar, spelling pieces of textual evidence textual evidence evidence errors make understanding  Essay is typed/written in  Essay is typed/written in blue  Final draft not typed/written in impossible blue/black ink or black ink blue/black ink  No punctuation, spelling,  Only minor errors in  Errors in punctuation , spelling, grammar errors punctuation, spelling, grammar grammar make understanding difficult Quality of Work  Work is neat and clearly  Work reasonably neat and can  Somewhat difficult to  Looks like little effort was put All work must be turned in with written. be understood read/understand into it pride and professionalism.  Work is well-organized  Somewhat organized and  Attempt at organization but not  Not clear at all/sloppy (x1) and thought out thought out clear  No thought put into  Everything is labeled and  Most things are labeled and  Missing labels and parts are presentation of it. clear clear jumbled  Looks professional and  Looks like some time was spent  Looks rushed /thrown together polished and much time was spent on it