POEM RUBRIC

GROUP:
CATEGORY Excellent - 4 Good - 3 Satisfactory - 2 Needs Improvement - 1
THE WRITING Student devoted a lot of time and effort Student devoted adequate time and effort Student devoted some time and Student devoted little time and effort to the
PROCESS / to the writing process and worked hard to the writing process and worked to get effort to the writing process but was writing process. It appears that the student
to make the poem a good read. The the job done. The poem may have one or not very thorough. Does enough to does not care about the assignment. The
EFFORT poem has no errors. two errors. get by. There are several errors. poem has many errors.

TITLE The poem has a title that clearly relates The poem has a title that relates to the The poem has a title The poem has no title
to the poem and adds interest to the poem
theme or message of the poem

NEATNESS The final draft of the poem is readable, The final draft of the poem is readable, The final draft of the poem is The final draft is not neat or attractive. It
clean, neat and attractive. It is free of neat and attractive. It may have one or two readable and some of the pages are looks like the student just wanted to get it
erasures and crossed-out words. It looks erasures, but they are not distracting. It attractive. It looks like parts of it done and didn’t care what it looked like.
like the author took great pride in it. looks like the author took some pride in it. might have been done in a hurry.

STYLE The poem is written with a great sense The poem is written with a defined with The poem is written somewhat with The poem lacks style and the thoughts did
of style. The poem has been well style. Thoughts are clear to read and style. Thoughts are clear to a not come out clearly on paper.
thought out and makes sense to the understandable. degree.
reader.

VOCABULARY The poem is filled with descriptive The poem includes many descriptive The poem includes some descriptive The poem lacks description and does not
vocabulary that appeals to the reader. elements and is appealing. words and phrases. allow the reader to visualize the poem.