Learning from Texts

Superior 25 – 19

Responding to Texts

Superior 5 – 4	Acceptable 3.5 – 3	Needs Work 2.5 – 0
Your thesis statement clearly restates the question.	You have an adequate thesis statement.	You did not respond to the question.
You clearly and convincingly supported your response with relevant evidence from the text and specific details.	You supported your response with some evidence from the text and adequate specific details.	You did not support your response with evidence from the text or you chose irrelevant evidence and lacks details.
Your response is logical and well organized.	Your response is mostly logical and well organized.	Your response is not logical or lacks organization.
You paraphrased most of the time and did it accurately.	You paraphrased most of the time.	You did not put your work into your own words.

Superior 20 – 15	Acceptable 14 – 12	Needs Work 11 – 0
Your work is structured and formatted very well throughout.	Your work is structured and formatted.	Your work lacks adequate structure and format.
You identified the important points, an adequate number of supporting details, and important vocabulary.	You identified most of the important points, adequate supporting details, and some of the important vocabulary.	You did not identify enough of the important points, supporting details, and important vocabulary.
You used a clear and easy-to-recognize system to differentiate broad, general ideas from specific, supporting information.	You used a system to differentiate broad, general ideas from specific, supporting information.	Your system for differentiating broad, general ideas from specific, supporting information was vague and unclear.
You paraphrased most of the time and did it accurately.	You paraphrased most of the time.	You did not put your work into your own words.