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Newspaper Article Writing

This rubric is to be used to assess a student's final copy of an article for the classroom newspaper.

Rubric Code: M9ABCX

By brittmarg

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8

Newspaper Article Writing
	1 pts	2 pts	3 pts
Important Information	1 The article does not tell who, what, when, where or why/how.___ The facts are incomplete or wrong.___ The most important information is not presented first.___ Does not answer the guiding question.	2 The article tells 3 of the following: who, what, when, where or why/how.___ The facts are primarily correct.___ Important information is presented first, but not the most important information.___ Answers the guiding question in an unclear way.___	3 The article contains all 5 W's: who, what, where, when, and why/how. ___ The facts are complete and correct.___ The most important information is presented first.___ Clearly answers the guiding question.___
Reporting Format	1 The article does not contain a lead.___ The article is an opinion.____ The article does not have subheadings.___ Article is not newsworthy and does not have a reporter's voice.___	2 The article contains a lead but it is not interesting.___ The article contains an opinion.___ The article has subheadings that do not match the following paragraphs.___ Article is written with a reporter's voice or is newsworthy.___	3 The article contains and interesting/ exciting lead.___ The article is free of opinions.___ The article has subheadings and the following paragraphs match the subheadings.___ Article is newsworthy and written with a reporter's voice.___
Writing Mechanics	1 The article is vague and unclear.___ The article contains many spelling errors.___ The article contains many grammatical errors.___	2 The article contains few sentences that are unclear to the reader.___ The article contains few spelling errors.___ The article contians few grammatical errors.___	3 The article is clear and concise.___ The article contains only 1 or 2 spelling errors.___ The article contains only 1 or 2 grammatical errors.___
Editing and Improving	1 The article was neither edited nor improved.___	2 The article shows some improvements and edits.___	3 The article was completely edited and improvements were made.___
Illustrations and Tables	1 Illustrations are not present or they are not original.___ Image does not have a caption. ___	2 Original Illustrations relate to the text on the page.___ Image has a caption that does not relate to the article. ___	3 Original illustrations are detailed, attractive, creative, and relate to the text on the page.___ Images have a caption.___