RUBRIC FOR POETRY

CATEGORY Excellent - 4 Good - 3 Satisfactory - 2 Needs Improvement - 1

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

NEATNESS The final draft of the The final draft of the poem The final draft of the The final draft is not neat
poem is readable, clean, is readable, neat and poem is readable and or attractive. It looks like
neat and attractive. It attractive. It looks like the some of the pages are the student just wanted to
looks like the author took author took some pride in attractive. It looks like get it done and didn’t care
great pride in it. it. parts of it might have what it looked like.
been done in a hurry.

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