CATEGORY

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Points Earned

Neatness and Effort

The book jacket has no distracting errors, corrections or erasures and is easily read. It appears the student spent a lot of effort getting things just right.

The book jacket has almost no distracting errors, corrections or erasures and is easily read. It appears the student worked hard on it.

The book jacket is fairly readable but the quality is not too good on some parts. It looks like the student ran out of time or didn't take care of it.

Very messy and hard to read. It looks like the student threw it together at the last minute without much care.

 

Inside Right (back) Flap

Includes a small photograph or drawing of the author, the author's name and a biography that includes some personal facts and the name of at least one other book written by the author.

Includes the author's name and a biography that includes some personal facts and the name of at least one other book written by the author.

Includes the author's name and a biography that includes some personal facts about the author.

Author's name AND/OR bibliography is missing.

 

Grammar

There are no grammatical mistakes on the book jacket.

There is 1 grammatical mistake on the book jacket.

There are 2-3 grammatical mistakes on the book jacket.

There are more than 3 grammatical mistakes on the book jacket.

 

Use of Time

Class time was used wisely. It is clear the student worked at home as well as at school.

Class time was used wisely. Student could have put in more time and effort outside of class.

Class time was not always used wisely, but student did do some additional work outside of class.

Class time was not used wisely and the student put in no additional effort.

 

Spelling

There are 3 or fewer spelling errors on the book jacket. The author's name and the title are spelled correctly throughout!

There are 3 or fewer spelling errors on the book jacket, but the author's name is is not always spelled correctly. The title is always spelled correctly.

There are 3 or fewer spelling errors on the book jacket, but the title and author's name are not always spelled correctly.

There are more than 3 spelling errors.

 

Illustration(s)

Illustrations were creative, drawn and colored neatly and were a good size.

Illustrations were drawn and colored neatly and were a good size.

Illustrations were drawn and colored neatly, but some were too large or too small.

Illustrations were drawn and/or colored carelessly.

 

Summary of Book

Students included all elements of the story. They included details that were important to the story. Writing was neat and no grammatical errors or spelling mistakes.

Students included all elements of the story. No details were added, and only a few grammatical mistakes.

Students included most of the elements of a story.

Students did not include elements of the story, they did not summarize the story, but gave their own opinion of the story. They didn't follow directions.