Rubric for: What's the Story?

Rubric for: What’s the Story? - A WebQuery for 4^th Grade (Designed by: Mrs. Goeden)

	Excellent	Good	Poor
Grammar	Students use complex sentence, correct verb tense, prepositions, connectors and adequate grammatical structure.	Students use simple sentence with some mistakes but their grammatical structure is acceptable.	Students use the verb tense in an unacceptable way with mistakes in connectors and grammatical structure.
Cohesion	Students are able to write the ideas and link them with a sequence, according to general scheme.	Students are able to write the ideas and link them but they use inappropriate way.	Students are not able to link the sentences or general idea according to topic
Coherence	Students employ coherence to write the sentence with known features in order to catch the readers' attention.	Students employ coherence to write the sentences but it is a little interesting and understandable.	Students employ fake issues to write the ideas therefore it is understandable and boring to readers
Vocabulary (Use of unit words in project)	Students utilize a variety of unit/vocabulary words to express the ideas in the text.	Students utilize a few of unit/vocabulary words to express the ideas in the text.	Students lack unit/vocabulary words to express the ideas in the text
Capitalization & Punctuation (Conventions)	Student makes no errors in capitalization or punctuation, so the paper is exceptionally easy to read.	Student makes a few errors in capitalization or punctuation, but the paper is still relatively easy to read.	Student makes several errors in capitalization and/or punctuation that catch the reader's attention and greatly interrupt the flow.
Presenation (2 parts) - Stays on Topic – - Vocabulary -	Stays on topic all (100%) of the time.	Stays on topic most (99-90%) of the time.	Stays on topic some (89%-75%) of the time.
	Incorporates at least 5 vocabulary words appropriate for the unit.	Incorporates a few vocabulary words appropriate for the unit.	Does not include words or phrases that are linked to the vocabulary words for the unit.