Reading Response Rubric 1 2 3 4 No clear focus Partial focus focus Maintains clear focus Content is misunderstood Partial understanding Basic understanding of Full understanding of the Focus of the content the content content No logical structure Unclear structure Logical structure Logical structure No main ideas Present but illogical Logical main ideas Logical main ideas No transitional devices main Effective use of Effective use of transitional Minimal or ineffective transitional devices devices Organization use of transitional Dialogue and descriptions devices of actions, thoughts, and feelings develop to show the response of characters to situations. Missing or incorrect text Minimal support using are supported by Multiple examples of evidence some text details as text details as evidence support Text-Based Text details are irrelevant evidence Text details are Text details are relevant, or insignificant Text details are mostly relevant and logically logically connect to topic, Support relevant but are not connect to topic and cite specific passage fully connected to topic information No extraneous information Poor use of grammar, Several errors in Few errors in Proper use of grammar, punctuation, and/or grammar, punctuation, grammar, punctuation, and/or capitalization and/or capitalization punctuation, and/or capitalization Multiple spelling errors Several spelling errors capitalization No spelling errors Conventions Few spelling errors No sentence variety Minimal sentence Purposeful use of sentence variety Use of sentence variety variety Created by Brandi Derstine 2013
1 2 3 4 Focus No clear focus Content is misunderstood Partial focus Partial understanding of the content focus Basic understanding of the content Maintains clear focus Full understanding of the content Organization No logical structure No main ideas No transitional devices Unclear structure Present but illogical main Minimal or ineffective use of transitional devices Logical structure Logical main ideas Effective use of transitional devices Logical structure Logical main ideas Effective use of transitional devices Dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings develop to show the response of characters to situations. Text-Based Support Missing or incorrect text evidence Text details are irrelevant or insignificant Minimal support using some text details as evidence Text details are mostly relevant but are not fully connected to topic are supported by text details as evidence Text details are relevant and logically connect to topic Multiple examples of support Text details are relevant, logically connect to topic, and cite specific passage information No extraneous information Conventions Poor use of grammar, punctuation, and/or capitalization Multiple spelling errors No sentence variety Several errors in grammar, punctuation, and/or capitalization Several spelling errors Minimal sentence variety Few errors in grammar, punctuation, and/or capitalization Few spelling errors Use of sentence variety Proper use of grammar, punctuation, and/or capitalization No spelling errors Purposeful use of sentence variety Reading Response Rubric Created by Brandi Derstine 2013