This rubric evaluates biographies on content, research, organization, style, originality, word choice, creativity, conventions/neatness, and work ethic. It provides criteria for exceeding requirements and earning a score of 4, meeting requirements well and earning a 3, meeting some requirements and earning a 2, and needs improvement to earn a 1. Areas evaluated include including significant life events, supporting details, facts about the person's life, grouping information together logically, sentence structure, writing in the student's own words, using descriptive language, including visuals, following writing process steps, and conventions like spelling and grammar.
This rubric evaluates biographies on content, research, organization, style, originality, word choice, creativity, conventions/neatness, and work ethic. It provides criteria for exceeding requirements and earning a score of 4, meeting requirements well and earning a 3, meeting some requirements and earning a 2, and needs improvement to earn a 1. Areas evaluated include including significant life events, supporting details, facts about the person's life, grouping information together logically, sentence structure, writing in the student's own words, using descriptive language, including visuals, following writing process steps, and conventions like spelling and grammar.
This rubric evaluates biographies on content, research, organization, style, originality, word choice, creativity, conventions/neatness, and work ethic. It provides criteria for exceeding requirements and earning a score of 4, meeting requirements well and earning a 3, meeting some requirements and earning a 2, and needs improvement to earn a 1. Areas evaluated include including significant life events, supporting details, facts about the person's life, grouping information together logically, sentence structure, writing in the student's own words, using descriptive language, including visuals, following writing process steps, and conventions like spelling and grammar.
Biography Rubric for ___________________________________________ Date ____________________
Exceeds Requirements!! 4 Awesome Job!! 3 Good Job! 2 Needs Work 1
What am I being graded on?
Includes most of person’s
Includes all of person’s Missing some significant life Missed many of person’s life significant life events (at least Content significant life events and has events and has a few events and has very few 3) and has some supporting many supporting details. supporting details. supporting details. details. Person’s life is well researched Person’s life is supported with Person’s life does not seem Very few clear facts about the Research and developed with facts and facts and details. well-researched. person’s life. details. Related information about the Some related information Most related information about person is grouped together in about the person is grouped the person is grouped Lacks organization and Organization paragraphs. Paragraphs have together, but some is out of together. At least one topic structure. No topic sentences. topic sentences. order. No clear topic sentence. sentences. Interesting, keeps reader’s attention. Complete sentences Has some interesting Sentences sound the same and Some sentences incomplete and Style with varied length. sentences of varied length. have similar length. are very basic, repetitive.
Clearly described in own words
Clearly described in own words Describes the person’s life but the person’s life, Described with some of own Originality the person’s life and seems like someone else’s accomplishments and words the person’s life. accomplishments. writing style. contributions. Consistently uses a variety of Very basic, general word Word choice Uses some descriptive words. Very few descriptive words. descriptive words. choice. Included picture. Added extra Included picture but added no Included pictures and added Creativity information to make report other details. Missing picture. extras to make report special! unique. Very professional! Two or Three to four spelling or Needs editing. Over six Four to six spelling or grammar Conventions/Overall Neatness fewer spelling or grammar grammar errors. Paper typed spelling or grammar errors. errors. Paper is typed but not errors. Typed paper with with indented paragraphs. Very Paper typed but difficult to all paragraphs indented. indented paragraphs. neat and professional. see paragraphs. Always on task!! Followed all Almost always on task. Sometimes on task. Followed Daily Work Ethic Needed to focus more on the steps of the writing process Followed most steps of the some steps of the writing Following Directions project! Needed frequent help with rough draft, editing, and writing process with rough process with rough draft, Writing Process with the writing process. final draft. draft, editing, and final draft. editing, and final draft.