Oral News Report Rubric 4 3 2 1 Opening & Clearly, quickly Established Audience had an Little or no intro, Introduction established the focus of the idea of what was such that focus of the speech but not coming, but the audience did not speech, gained very clear. intro did not know the audience Gained attention. clarify the main speaker’s main attention focus. focus.

Content Main items in Main items of Audience infers Presentation the headline the headline main headlines; jumps among clearly stated fairly clear; holes are random topics. and explained; some missing evident. Main items of logical, smooth links or headline unclear. organization transitions.

Clarity & Highly detailed, Reports all the Reports the news Incomplete, Organization well organized, news items in an items without reports, few shows a strong organized way. much research details, too brief, research of the disorganized or issues covered. confusing.

Voice and Manner Loud, clear, Loud, clear, with Varies from loud Difficult to hear relaxed with few some pauses to and clear to or understand, pauses. Well gather thoughts. difficult to seems prepared, Seems well understand, unprepared or presentation prepared, seems prepared, has body somewhat may have some movement that nervous. nervous and significantly distracting distract listeners. behavior.

Eye Contact Consistent eye Eye contact Sometimes looks Little or no eye contact with mainly with the at the audience; contact with the many members teacher or one often looks at audience. of the audience; member of the notes or rarely looks at audience; elsewhere. notes. occasionally refers to notes. Audience Listens Listens and Listens but Does not listen attentively & participates. doesn’t or participate in remembers the participate. discussions. important news items.