Quote Analysis Rubric
When you are asked to choose a quote from a text to analyze, you will be graded on the following criteria.
Fully Meets Expectations
18-20 points
Student response:
❖ includes a quote or a clear paraphrase from
the text as evidence.
❖ has insightful explanation of the
significance and/or meaning of the evidence
❖ explains the relationship between the
evidence and the topic discussed or the
guiding questions in an insightful and
accurate way
❖ meets all grade level expectations for use of
academic language (no use of ‘I’ or ‘me’
statements, proper framing of quotes)
❖ has very few spelling or grammatical errors
Partially Meets Expectations
14-17 points
Student response:
❖ includes a quote or a clear paraphrase from the
text as evidence.
❖ has an accurate, but short explanation of the
significance and/or meaning of the evidence
❖ explains the relationship between the evidence
and the topic discussed or the guiding
questions in an accurate, but brief way
❖ meets some grade level expectations for use of
academic language (some use of ‘I’ or ‘me’
statements or improper framing of quotes)
❖ has very few spelling or grammatical errors
Needs Improvement
10-13 points
Student response:
❖ does not include a quote or a clear paraphrase
from the text as evidence.
❖ has an partially accurate or very short
explanation of the significance and/or
meaning of the evidence
❖ Partially explains the relationship between the
evidence and the topic discussed or the
guiding questions
❖ meets few grade level expectations for use of
academic language (frequent use of ‘I’ or
‘me’ statements or improper framing of
quotes)
❖ has several spelling or grammatical errors