Writing a Summary of a Narrative Text: Portfolio (Summative Assessment)

INSTRUCTIONS: ​You will write a writing response of 300 words that summarizes the text that
you have read. Make sure that you are writing a response that accurately summarizes your
short story and touches on all of the different parts of the short story - characters, plot, theme,
conflict, point of view, and setting.

Categories Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

0 - 49% 50 - 64% 65 - 79% 80 - 100%

Thinking/Inquiry Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates a

Critical and limited moderate considerable high degree of
creative thinking competence in competence in competence in competence in
skills using critical using critical and using critical and using critical and
and creative creative thinking creative thinking creative thinking
thinking skills skills. skills skills.

Communication Communicates Communicates Communicates Communicates

Communication ideas and ideas and ideas and ideas and
of ideas and information with information with information with information with
information limited clarity moderate clarity considerable a high degree of
clarity clarity

Application Uses the Uses the writing Uses the writing Uses the writing
Application of the writing process process with process with process with a
writing process with limited moderate considerable high degree of
competence competence competence competence

Knowledge and Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates a

Understanding limited moderate considerable high degree of
Understanding of knowledge of knowledge of knowledge of knowledge of
directly stated information and information and information and information and
information and ideas. ideas. ideas. ideas.
ideas;
understanding of
relationships
between ideas;
understanding of
concepts and
themes)