Holistic Rubric Regarding Short Story

4 3 2 1 0
Spelling and Virtually no A few spelling and A number of There are a great N/A
spelling or grammatical errors. spelling and number of spelling
Punctuation grammatical errors. grammatical errors. and grammatical
errors.
Use of Excellent use of Proficient use of Moderate use of Insufficient use of Absent use of
adjectives. They adjectives. For the adjectives. A fair adjectives. There adjectives in the
Adjectives have been used at most part, they number of are only a few used story.
appropriate times have been used adjectives have been appropriately
throughout the appropriately used appropriately throughout the story.
story, and greatly throughout the throughout the story. They hardly
enhance the story. They They moderately enhance meaning in
meaning of the strongly enhance enhance meaning in the story plot.
plot. meaning in the the story plot.
story plot.
Incorporation of Excellent use of Proficient use of Moderate Insufficient use of Absent use of
quotations. They quotations. Use of quotations. quotations. Only a quotations.
Quotations have been used For the most part, A fair number of few have been used
with correct they have been quotations have been with correct
punctuation. used with correct used with correct punctuation.
punctuation. punctuation.
Creativity of Excellent Proficient Moderate Insufficient N/A
Story has been well For the most part, The story has Delivery of story is
Thought thought out and the story has been somewhat been repetitive, and is
shows a great well thought out, thought out, and presented with
amount of and strongly shows moderately shows hardly any
creativity. creativity. creativity creativity or
originality of
thought
Story Clarity The story sequence For the most part, The story sequence The story sequence The story does
makes sense and is the story sequence makes some sense. is very hard to not make any
and Sequence very easy to makes sense and is follow and makes sense
follow. easy to follow. little sense.

Story Plot Incorporates Ideas from all Three Picture Prompts /3

Correct Format /4
Story has:
-Title
- Author’s name
- Date
- Spaced paragraph’s

Bonus Marks: There is a Title Page /1

Total Number of Marks: /28