Short Story Rubric

10 points 7 points 4 points 0 points

Basic Format 1 ½ - 2 pages, 12 Missing 2 Missing 2 Doesn't follow

font, Times New or more of or more of any of the
Roman, Double the the formatting
spaced, Story has a formatting formatting requirements
title (not “Short requiremen requiremen
Story”) ts ts and does
not have a
title

Style Catchy opening, The story The story is The story

Follows plot does not containing doesn't meet
diagram (rising follow the only 1 of any of the
conflict, climax, plot the criteria.
resolution), Story is diagram. elements
told with both The story is
dialogue and missing 1
narration, of the other
Consistent point of elements
view (1st person or
3rd)

Dialogue Dialogue formatted 3 or more More than The story

correctly (new line formatting half of the doesn’t have
for a new speaker, mistakes in dialogue is any dialogue
indented), dialogue formatted
Punctuated incorrectly.
correctly, Variety of
dialogue tags
(Speaker Tag,
Action Tag, Thought
Tag, No tag at all)

Editing The story appears 4 or more Most of the Grammatical

to have been grammatic story errors in most
proofread; minimal al errors in contains of the story.
errors that do not the story grammatic Errors take
 take away from the al errors away from the
meaning/understan meaning of the
ding story

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