Thursday, October 4, 2012

Grading Student Blog Posts

The students in Reading Workshop just completed an interdisciplinary project for social studies and language arts.  They had to research about a place they had visited, list five facts, and then write a story about their trip.  In addition, for their blog, they had to write an introduction, find relevant links, and post pictures that supported their writing.

The project was graded using this rubric.

A 

  • Follows project guidelines
  • Has an introduction that explains the project telling W's (who, what, when, where, why)    
  • Interesting/draws in the reader
  • Writing has a sense of style
  • Provides relative and interesting facts
  • Writes a narrative that is detailed, exciting, and complete
  • Has numerous links to relevant websites
  • Correct PUGS (Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, and Spelling)
  • Does not plagiarize

B

  • Follows project guidelines
  • Has an introduction that explains the project telling W's    
  • Provides relative and interesting facts
  • Writes a narrative that is detailed and complete
  • Has links to relevant websites
  • Correct PUGS (Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, and Spelling)
  • Does not plagiarize

C 

  • Follows guidelines
  • Has an introduction that explains the project
  • Provides facts
  • Writes a narrative that is complete
  • Has links to websites
  • Two - Four mistakes with PUGS (Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, and Spelling)
  • Does not plagiarize

D 

  • Does not follow guidelines
  • Incomplete introduction
  • Provides some facts
  • Incomplete narrative
  • Errors with PUGS (Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, and Spelling)
  • Does not plagiarize

F 

  • Plagiarizes
  • Little sign of effort
  • Did not publish post on blog

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