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Year Ten Short Story Year Ten Short Story Students are to write a short story, using narrative conventions. Rubric Code: FX87338 By Jenmc18 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Assessment Grade Levels: 9-12

Year 10 Short Story
	Excellent 10 pts	Good 7 pts	Fair 5 pts	Poor 3 pts
Language	Excellent Vocabulary choices engage the reader and show subtlety in meaning. Sentence structures aid in meaning.	Good Chooses vocabulary to engage the audience. Uses a wide choice of vocabulary to show meaning. Uses different sentence structures to aid in meaning.	Fair Attempts to vary vocabulary to engage the audience and show meaning. Attempts to vary sentence structures to assist in meaning, but not always clear.	Poor Vocabulary not varied or extended. Audience not engaged with text. Sentence structures do not aid in meaning and are confusing.
Literature	Excellent Uses descriptive and figurative language to aid in ideas. Characters are fully developed through action, dialogue and description. Elements of plot are clear. Uses a variety of narrative devices (such as flashback, foreshadowing, analogy). Point of view is consistent throughout. Author's voice is sustained throughout the text.	Good Uses some figurative and mostly descriptive language. Develops the characters through dialogue, actions and description. Elements of plot (exposition, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion) are used. Uses some narrative devices in writing. Point of view is mostly consistent. Attempted to sustain consistent voice.	Fair Attempts to use figurative language. Uses mostly descriptive language. Some development of characters, mostly through description. Elements of plot are evident yet are not always clear. Attempts to use some narrative devices in writing, not always successfully. Point of view is mostly consistent. Author's voice is lacking.	Poor Descriptive language used. Characters are not developed. Elements of plot are lacking. Narrative devices are used incorrectly or lacking. Point of view is mostly consistent. No clear author's voice.
Literacy	Excellent Uses correct spelling. Tense is consistent throughout text. Sentence structures are varied for impact.	Good Uses mostly correct spelling (difficult or unusual words) Tense is consistent. Variety in sentence structures. Text shows control and organisations of ideas.	Fair Most words are spelt correctly (difficult and unusual words) Tense is mostly consistent. Attempts to vary sentence structures. Evidence of editing, yet needs some work for control and organisation.	Poor High number of spelling mistakes (mostly common words) Tense is inconsistent. Sentence structure is poor and lacking in sense. Little or no evidence of editing.