Storybook Category Excellent Good Fair Poor 4 pts 3 pts 2 pts 1 pt Cover The cover is The cover is The cover is not The cover is not creative and grabs creative and has creative and is creative and is the attention of the the title, author, missing some of missing several of reader. The cover and illustrator. The the requirements. the requirements. contains a picture picture is drawn, that is neatly but is not neat. drawn, the title, author, and illustrator. Organization The story is very The story is pretty The story is a Ideas and scenes well organized. well organized. little hard to seem to be One idea or scene One idea or scene follow. The randomly follows another in a may seem out of transitions are arranged. logical sequence place. Clear sometimes not with clear transitions are clear. transitions. used. Focus on The entire story is Most of the story is Some of the story No attempt has Assigned related to the related to the is related to the been made to Task theme of Where the theme of Where theme of Where relate the story to Red Fern Grows the Red Fern the Red Fern the theme of and allows the Grows. The story Grows, but a Where the Red reader to wanders off at one reader does not Fern Grows. understand much point, but the learn much about more about that reader can still the theme. theme. learn something about the theme. Writing Student devotes a Student devotes Student devotes Student devotes Process lot of time and sufficient time and some time and little time and effort to the writing effort to the writing effort to the effort to the process (prewriting, process writing process writing process. drafting, reviewing, (prewriting, but was not very Doesn't seem to and editing). Works drafting, reviewing, thorough. Does care. hard to make the and editing). enough to get by. story wonderful. Works and gets the job done.
Storybook Category Excellent 4 pts Good 3 pts Fair 2 pts Poor 1 pt Cover The cover is creative and grabs the attention of the reader. The cover contains a picture that is neatly drawn, the title, author, and illustrator. The cover is creative and has the title, author, and illustrator. The picture is drawn, but is not neat. The cover is not creative and is missing some of the requirements. The cover is not creative and is missing several of the requirements. Organization The story is very well organized. One idea or scene follows another in a logical sequence with clear transitions. The story is pretty well organized. One idea or scene may seem out of place. Clear transitions are used. The story is a little hard to follow. The transitions are sometimes not clear. Ideas and scenes seem to be randomly arranged. Focus on Assigned Task The entire story is related to the theme of Where the Red Fern Grows and allows the reader to understand much more about that theme. Most of the story is related to the theme of Where the Red Fern Grows. The story wanders off at one point, but the reader can still learn something about the theme. Some of the story is related to the theme of Where the Red Fern Grows, but a reader does not learn much about the theme. No attempt has been made to relate the story to the theme of Where the Red Fern Grows. Writing Process Student devotes a lot of time and effort to the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, and editing). Works hard to make the story wonderful. Student devotes sufficient time and effort to the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, and editing). Works and gets the job done. Student devotes some time and effort to the writing process but was not very thorough. Does enough to get by. Student devotes little time and effort to the writing process. Doesn't seem to care.