Name: ____________________________________________________ Date: _____________________

Journalistic Podcast Rubric

Learning Target Exceeding Mastery Meeting Mastery Approaching Missing/

Mastery Not
Attempted

JOURNALISM Author meets mastery, Author successfully

I can write an and chooses a story identifies, scripts, and
informative and that is particularly records an informative
explanatory text to impactful, detailed, story about their
examine and convey and compelling. neighborhood.
complex ideas.

EVIDENCE Author chooses Author chooses and cites

I can select, paraphrase, relevant sources that relevant sources that
and cite relevant support and enrich advance their audience’s
evidence from literary their key takeaway. understanding of the key
and informative texts to Author goes above and takeaway.
answer my research beyond to locate and
question. understand extra
sources.

ANALYSIS Author meets mastery, Author uses their sources

I can put multiple and goes above and in conjunction to build
texts/authors in beyond to compare towards and support a key
conversation and take and contrast points of takeaway.
my own stance. view from their
sources.

STYLE/VOICE Author uses the Author uses a semi-

I can adapt my writing to podcast format to its conversational style to
a specific purpose and fullest, including a engage their listener.
audience. semi-conversational
style, multiple voices,
sounds, and levels of
emotion to engage the
listener.

GRAMMAR Author’s sentence Writing is comprehensible,

I can effectively use structure is complex with few errors in
grammar and sentence and “flows.” Very few grammar and conventions.
or no errors in
structure to improve the
grammar and
quality of my writing. conventions.