CATEGORY

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Points Earned

Front Cover

Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name. Font and colors fit the emotional content of the book. The graphic illustrates some scene from the book.

Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name. The graphic illustrates some scene from the book.

Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name.

Does not include illustration, title, AND/OR author's name.

 

Inside Left (front) Flap

Summary is well-written and includes all aspects of the story. Paragraphs are well formed. It is clear the student read the book and understood it.

Summary includes all aspects of the story, but at least one paragraph is not well formed. It is clear the student read the book.

Includes a description of some of the things that happened in the story. lt appears the student read most of the book, but might not understand it.

Summary is too vague. Does not appear the student read or understood the book.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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