ANNOTATION RUBRIC **DO NOT MERELY SUMMARIZE**

25-23 Advanced 22-20 Proficient 19-16 Basic 15-11 Below Basic 10-0 Far Below
Basic
Completion & EXCEEDS GOOD, fairly BASIC completion. WEAK completion. Lack of annotations
Thoroughness completion and thorough Meets minimum At least half the shows no effort.
thoroughness. completion. requirements. Lacks pages annotated, Less than half the
EXCEEDS thoroughness. but lacking pages annotated;
expectations. thoroughness in overall lacking in
many areas. thoroughness.
Insightful & Extremely Some insightful Mediocre analysis. Shallow analysis. No analytical
Analytic Thinking MEANINGFUL annotations; some Summarizes. Summarizes. thinking shown.
annotations. not as in-depth. Shallow analysis.
EXCEEDS Summarizes. Summarizes.
expectations.
Inferences & Makes inferences Makes some Sometimes makes Rarely makes No inferences made
Explanations about the reading inferences and inferences; minimal inferences; minimal at all. Highlights,
and EXPLAINS the mostly explains explanation of explanation of but does not explain
significance of the significance of highlighting. highlighting. significance. Rarely
highlighting. highlighting. Summarizes Summarizes. makes inferences;
EXCEEDS Summarizes. minimal
expectations. explanation of
highlighting.
Focus Elements & EXCELLENT. GOOD. Recognizes BASIC. WEAK. Only LITTLE TO
Active Reading Identifies and focus elements, but Only recognizes/labels NONE. Does not
Strategies (ARS) ANALYZES the does not always recognizes/labels focus elements, but identify focus
significance of the analyze. Practices focus elements, but weak analysis of elements; does not
focus elements. some ARS. mediocre analysis their significance. analyze
Practices ARS. Summarizes. of their Practices few ARS. significance.
EXCEEDS significance. Summarizes. Practices few or no
expectations. Practices few ARS. ARS. Summarizes.
Summarizes. Labels. Identifies.
Chapter Analysis EXCELLENT GOOD chapter BASIC chapter WEAK chapter LITTLE TO NO
chapter analyses; analyses; good analyses; LACK of analyses; LACK of chapter analyses;
DO NOT COPY excellent understanding of understanding of understanding of little to no
FROM understanding of the reading is the reading is the reading is understanding of
EXTERNAL the reading is demonstrated; ties demonstrated; demonstrated; the reading is
SOURCES demonstrated; ties together predictions partially ties partially ties demonstrated.
(PLAGIARISM) together predictions and outcomes. together predictions together predictions Summarizes.
and outcomes. Summarizes. and outcomes. and outcomes.
EXCEEDS Summarizes. Summarizes.
expectations.

ANNOTATIONS COMMENT CODE

1. Keep up the good work!

2. Good start – add more detail to explanations.
3. Better – showing improvement.
4. When you ask questions in the reading, infer the answers and write them, as well.
5. Chapter analyses are weak.
6. Remember to write an analysis after each chapter.
7. Not enough to grade—work on time management.
8. Not enough to give a higher score – work on time management.
9. Good content, but not enough to grade or to give a higher score – work on time management.
10. Analyses are from Sparknotes or similar site – PLAGIARISM! Analyses should be based on what you think, and not taken from an
external source.
11. Illegible – cannot grade or score higher because handwriting cannot be read.
12. Add more focus to literary elements and EXPLAIN the literary elements with more detail.
13. Add more focus to ARS (Active Reading Strategies).
14. Look at “A” work example of annotations.
15. Did not follow comments from previous annotation check.
16. Summarizes. No analysis.
17. Vague; unclear. Be more specific with details during explanations.
18. Emerging analysis—expand details.
19. Combination of summary and analysis. Work on more analysis.
20. Missing chapter analyses. Where are they?
21. Incomplete chapter analyses.
22. GOOD use of semester vocabulary!!
23. Highlighted text, but no annotations.
24. Did not follow focus requirements for chapter analysis.
25. Be more specific with what occurs throughout the chapter and with whether or not your predictions were correct or incorrect.