Persuasive Speech Scoring Rubric

Category Does Not Minimally Fully Meets Exceeds

Meet Meets

Poise Slouches; leans Rarely looks at Stands tall & Moves

on things; does audience; relaxed; expressively;
not look at fidgets. engages relaxed
audience. audience with demeanour;
gestures; keeps eye-
makes good contact
eye contact.
Projection Mumbles Hard to hear Easy to hear Good tenor &
timbre.
Fluency & Stumbles Reads Good Good
Speed frequently; prepared conversational conversational
reads from speech; too speed; pauses speed; no
script. fast. to consult hesitation.
notes.
Clarity Barely Broken by Familiar with Easy delivery;
intelligible. numerous material; clear very
ums and ahs. delivery. understandable
.
Expression Monotonic Slight Lots of vocal Engagingly
expression; expression. expressive.
mainly
monotonic.
Introduction No Very short Clear intro Full intro to
introduction. introductory paragraph. topic.
paragraph.
Content & Scarcely Marginal Provides Provides novel
Originality informative. information information information on
on topic. on original original topic.
topic.
Conclusion/ No concluding Brief Full Thought
Closing paragraph concluding concluding provoking
paragraph paragraph concluding
paragraph
Time Less than 90 90 – 119 secs. 120-180 secs.
secs. & greater than
180 secs.