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Children's Story

The student will create a complete children's mystery book based on popular nursery rhymes. The target audience are third grade students. The learning outcome is that student's will deepen their understanding of the elements of mystery by reducing it to it's simplest terms and utilize illustration, fable, allegory and other devises to communicate effectively.

Rubric Code: M5WW55

By rlskinner

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Children's Story
	Poor 10 pts	Fair 15 pts	Good 20 pts
Key Concepts	Poor Fails to include 3 or more required elements of mystery. (3 clues, detective, crime, victim, witness, culprit, and solution.)	Fair Fails to include 1-2 required elements of mystery. (3 clues, detective, crime, victim, witness, culprit, and solution.)	Good Completes all of the required elements of mystery. (3 clues, detective, crime, victim, witness, culprit, and solution.)
Grade Appropriate	Poor Fails to communicate using 3rd grade vocabulary and reasoning ability. Does not show the qualities of a fable, fairy tale or Dr. Seuss kind of story.	Fair Somewhat communicates using 3rd grade vocabulary and reasoning ability. Shows the qualities of a fable, fairy tale or Dr. Seuss kind of story.	Good Effectively communicates using 3rd grade vocabulary and reasoning ability. Skillfully shows the qualities of a fable, fairy tale or Dr. Seuss kind of story.
Organization/ composition	Poor Fails to develop 2 or more of the five areas of the plot in narrative form. (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution)	Fair Fails to develop 1 of the five areas of the plot in narrative form. (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution)	Good All five areas of the plot in narrative form. (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution).
Title page/illustrations	Poor Failed to included 3 or more of the requirements for title page and illustrations. (fully colored, no blank pages, name of story, and author)	Fair Failed to included 1-2 or more of the requirements for title page and illustrations. (fully colored, no blank pages, name of story, and author)	Good Included all of the requirements for title page and illustrations. (fully colored, no blank pages, name of story, and author)
Creativity	Poor There is little or no creativity demonstrated.	Fair The story demonstrates some uniqueness in it's approach to communicating.	Good The story is special in that it goes beyond the expected scope of the assignment and demonstrates an unusually effective approach to the task and objectives.
Map	Poor Failed to include 4 or more of the required elements on the map. (crime scene, clues, and places mentioned in the story)	Fair Failed to include 1-3 of the required elements on the map. (crime scene, clues, and places mentioned in the story)	Good Includes all of the required elements on the map. (crime scene, clues, and places mentioned in the story)

Keywords:

Mystery; children's story; nursery rhymes

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