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Story Elements

Fiction Story Elements

This rubric can be used to help assess a student on thier understanding of story elements.

Rubric Code: AAA599

By charae1107

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Fiction Story Element Puzzle
	Needs Improvement 0 pts	Fair 1 pts	Very Good 2 pts	Excellent 3 pts
Title and Author	Needs Improvement Student cannot identify the title and author.	Fair Student can identify either the title or author.	Very Good Student can identify the title and author without title capitalized correctly.	Excellent Student can identify the title and author with title capitalized correctly.
Setting	Needs Improvement Student cannot identify the setting.	Fair Student can identify setting with little detail.	Very Good Student can identify main settings with some details. (time or place)	Excellent Student can identify main settings with significant detail. (time and place)
Characters	Needs Improvement Student cannot identify the characters by name and cannot give much detail about them.	Fair Student can identify the some main characters by name, and can give little or no details about them.	Very Good Student can idenitify most main characters by name and can give some detail about them.	Excellent Student can identify all main characters by name and can give specific details about them.
Problem/Conflict	Needs Improvement Student cannot identify the problem/conflict.	Fair Student can identify a minor problem/conflict.	Very Good Student can identify more than one minor problem/conflict.	Excellent Student can identify the major problem/conflict.
Main Events/Rising Action	Needs Improvement Student cannot identify events in the story.	Fair Student can identify some of the events in random order.	Very Good Student can identify most of the important events in order. These are many of the minor events also, which do not have a direct impact on the resolution.	Excellent Student can identify all of the most important events in sequential order. These are the primary events that lead to the resolution.
Solution/Resolution	Needs Improvement Student cannot identify the solution/resolution.	Fair Student can identify an event that did not solve the problem.	Very Good Student can identify a part of the solution/resolution with no specific connection to the problem.	Excellent Student can identify the solution/resolution as it directly relates to the problem.
Handwriting/Spelling	Needs Improvement The size and formation of the handwriting makes it hard to read. There were more than 3 misspelled words	Fair The size and formation of the handwriting makes it somewhat easy to read the poster. 1 to 3 words were misspelled.	Very Good The size and formation of the handwriting makes it easy to read the foldable. One word was misspelled.	Excellent The size and formation of the handwriting makes it very easy to read the foldable. All the words are spelled correctly.
Overall Appearance	Needs Improvement The overall appearance is not pleasing to the eye. The foldable does not have labeling done. Much of the information is missing.	Fair The overall appearance is somewhat pleasing to the eye. The foldable has some of the labeling done. There is some missing information.	Very Good The overall appearance is pleasing to the eye. The foldable has most of the labeling done properly. All the information was included.	Excellent The overall appearance is extremely pleasing to the eye. Very organized. The foldable is labeled properly. All the information was included and even some extra interesting information was included.

Keywords:

fiction, story, elements, reading, comprehension

Subjects:

English

Types:

Writing

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