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Civil Rights News Stories 2016 Civil Rights Expository Paragraphs Rubric Code: FB6CX8 By ltiesse Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 6-8

Civil Rights News Stories
	Good 10 pts	Fair 7 pts	Poor 4 pts
Ideas	Good Interesting and specific details gives the reader important information about the topic. Use of a good quote helps to give the reader more information about the topic.	Fair More specific details are needed to clearly explain the topic. The quote gives a little more information about the topic but is not clearly supportive of the main idea of the article.	Poor Details are limited and unclear.
Organization	Good News story follows the correct format with a strong headline and 1-3 sentence paragraphs with lots of information.	Fair News story sometimes follows the correct format of short paragraphs. The headline is not specific enough. Some paragraphs are too long.	Poor Information is not organized correctly.
Word Choice	Good Strong verbs and specific nouns are used to convey information.	Fair Some use of strong verbs and specific nouns used.	Poor No evidence of strong verbs or specific nouns.
Voice	Good Writing is clearly in the voice of the student. Writing is in a news story "voice": it is impartial and focused on giving the facts to the reader.	Fair Writing is mostly in students own words. There is some evidence of use of a news story "voice" in the writing.	Poor Writing is not in the student's own words. Correct voice for a news story is not evident.
Conventions/Presentation	Good Spelling, punctation, capitalization and grammar are generally correct. Uses conventions to make the piece easy to read. Presentation shows good effort.	Fair Editing and use of spellcheck is inconsistent. Spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar are usually correct. Presentation shows some effort.	Poor Errors in spelling, punctutation, capitalization and grammar make the text difficult to read. Spellcheck not used. Correct presentation format not used. Very little effort evident.