Student Autobiography Rubric

CATEGORY

Spellingand
Punctuation

Therearenospelling
orpunctuationerrors
inthefinaldraft.
Characterandplace
namesthattheauthor
inventedarespelled
consistently
throughout.

Thereisonespelling
orpunctuationerror
inthefinaldraft.

Thereare23spelling Thefinaldrafthas
andpunctuationerrors morethan3spelling
inthefinaldraft.
andpunctuation
errors.

FocusonAssigned
Topic

Theentirestoryis
relatedtotheassigned
topicandallowsthe
readertounderstand
muchmoreaboutthe
topic.

Mostofthestoryis
relatedtotheassigned
topic.Thestory
wandersoffatone
point,butthereader
canstilllearn
somethingaboutthe
topic.

Someofthestoryis
relatedtotheassigned
topic,butareader
doesnotlearnmuch
aboutthetopic.

Noattempthasbeen
madetorelatethe
storytotheassigned
topic.

Organization

Thestoryisverywell
organized.Oneidea
orscenefollows
anotherinalogical
sequencewithclear
transitions.

Thestoryispretty
wellorganized.One
ideaorscenemay
seemoutofplace.
Cleartransitionsare
used.

Thestoryisalittle
hardtofollow.The
transitionsare
sometimesnotclear.

Ideasandscenesseem
toberandomly
arranged.

Creativity

Thestorycontains
manycreativedetails
and/ordescriptions
thatcontributetothe
reader\'senjoyment.
Theauthorhasreally
usedhisimagination.

Thestorycontainsa
fewcreativedetails
and/ordescriptions
thatcontributetothe
reader\'senjoyment.
Theauthorhasused
hisimagination.

Thestorycontainsa
fewcreativedetails
and/ordescriptions,
buttheydistractfrom
thestory.Theauthor
hastriedtousehis
imagination.

Thereislittle
evidenceofcreativity
inthestory.The
authordoesnotseem
tohaveusedmuch
imagination.

Requirements

Allofthewritten
requirements(#of
pages,#ofgraphics,
typeofgraphics,etc.)
weremet.

Almostall(about
90%)thewritten
requirementswere
met.

Most(about75%)of
thewritten
requirementswere
met,butseveralwere
not.

Manyrequirements
werenotmet.