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Newspaer Page Design Rubric

Rubric for evaluating student production of school newsletter.

Rubric Code: B47973

By aloharobin

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Public Rubric

Subject: Journalism

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 9-12

Newsletter Production
	Poor 1 pts	Adequate 5 pts	Excellent 10 pts
Communications	Poor Do not consistently communicate with FF contacts.	Adequate Sent emails but without follow-up emails to encourage submissions.	Excellent Consistently emailed FF contact, put teacher in the cc line, and received all submissions in a timely manner.
Headlines	Poor Unoriginal, not descriptive	Adequate Adequately describe article but without active verb or originality.	Excellent All headlines read like sentences and include a subject and object. Only first word of the headlines and pronouns are capitalized. Subheads are used as needed.
Photos, Infographics	Poor No photos or minimal photos and infographics are used.	Adequate 1/3 of the page is graphical, but the photos do not have the best composition or lighting. Infographics, if used, are informative but could be more graphically appealing.	Excellent Photos or infographic expand stories. Images are aesthetically pleasing and use the rule of thirds. Cutline explains pic and adds to story. Credit is given to photographer or designer. Images have good contrast. Mug shots labeled correctly.
Follow Style Guide	Poor More than 10 errors on page. Did not use the style guide to check for errors.	Adequate Five errors on the page. Used style guide, but not consistently.	Excellent Two or fewer errors on the page. Used style guide consistently.
Bylines and photocredits.	Poor No bylines or photocredits	Adequate Some bylines and photocredits, but not consistent.	Excellent Bylines have correct spelling and title for each author. Photocredits are correct. All of the above use correct style sheet.
Pull Quotes	Poor No pull quotes.	Adequate Pull quotes, but not the best choice or not as graphical as could be for a design element.	Excellent Pull quotes used to promote the article. They are appealing to the reader.
Design I elements	Poor Looks chaotic, no flow.	Adequate Some thought to placement	Excellent Page not too crowded and “flows." Stories are grouped by similarities when possible. Page uses correct style sheets for EVERY aspect of the page (i.e. headlines, subheads,
Design II elements	Poor Chaotic spread, no thought to design.	Adequate Thought has been put into the design, but could have taken it farther for more professional look.	Excellent Good use of white space. Lines used to separate similar looking stories. Page doesn’t clash with page next to it. Used magazine/newspaper layout for model.
Spellcheck, etc.	Poor More than 3 spelling errors on the page.	Adequate Three or fewer spelling errors on page.	Excellent Spell check and read all stories out loud. 1 or 0 spelling errors on page.
Names	Poor Names were spelled incorrectly, people were not checked for press permission.	Adequate	Excellent All names spelled correctly with no last names. Grade is indicated. Press permission checked.
Deadline	Poor Missed deadline by a day. Up to 10 points deducted per day past deadline.	Adequate	Excellent Page done before or during the monthly "press day."

Subjects:

Journalism

Types:

Project

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