Comic Strip Rubric

CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Neatness The final draft is The final draft of The final draft of The final draft is
readable, clean, the story is the story is not neat or
neat and readable, neat readable and. It attractive. It
attractive. It is and attractive. It looks like parts looks like the
free of erasures. looks like the of it might have student just
It looks like the author took some been done in a wanted to get it
author took great pride in it. hurry. done.
pride in it.
Parts of Speech All 8 parts of All 8 parts of All 8 parts of Some parts of
speech are used speech are used speech are used speech are used
and identified and some are and a few are and identified
identified identified

Title Title is creative, Title is related to Title is present, No title.

sparks interest the story and but does not
and is related to topic. appear to be
the story and related to the
topic. story and topic.

Creativity The story The story The story There is little

contains many contains a few contains a few evidence of
creative details creative details creative details creativity and t
and the author and the author and the author he author does
has really used has used his has tried to use not seem to have
his imagination. imagination. his imagination. used much
imagination.
Illustrations Original Original Original Illustrations are
illustrations are illustrations are illustrations not present OR
detailed, somewhat relate to the text they are not
attractive, detailed, on the page. original.
creative and attractive, and
relate to the text relate to the text
on the page. on the page.
Spelling and There are no There is one There are 2-3 The final draft
Punctuation spelling or spelling or spelling and has more than 3
punctuation punctuation error punctuation spelling and
errors in the final in the final draft. errors in the final punctuation
draft. draft. errors.

Humor The Comic Strip The Comic Strip The Comic Strip What is humor?
is funny and is funny and is not so funny
made us LOL made us smile