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Middle School Reading Response Journals

Rubric to use to evaluate Responses to Reading Response Journal Questions

Rubric Code: MX32993

By sheenah1

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Subject: English

Type: Reading

Grade Levels: 6-8

Reading Journal
	Exceeds Expectations 5 pts	Acceptable 3 pts	Needs Improvement 1 pts
Completion 10 pts	Exceeds Expectations Journal entries are completed using textual references and gives detailed personal responses that respond fully to the prompt.	Acceptable Journal entries are somewhat complete, and uses textual references or gives detailed personal responses that showed an understanding of the prompt	Needs Improvement Journal entries are incomplete, may lack uses textual references or personal responses that relate to prompt. Overall response lacked important details showing understanding the prompt
Response Quality 10 pts	Exceeds Expectations Responses are fully developed and strongly on-topic.	Acceptable Responses are acceptably developed and remain on-topic for the most part.	Needs Improvement Responses are underdeveloped and do not remain on-topic.
Conventions 10 pts	Exceeds Expectations Student utilizes superior organization in their response that adds to overall development of response. Response also has very few grammatical and conventional errors. Complete sentences are used.	Acceptable Student attempts organization with structures such as paragraphs and transitions. Response has limited grammatical and conventional errors that do not interfere with meaning. Most sentences are complete	Needs Improvement Student does not use organizing structures to organize response. Entry has grammatical and conventional errors that interfere with meaning. Complete sentences not used.
Presentation 5 pts	Exceeds Expectations Work is neatly presented using proper organization of: new chapter begins on a new page, title and date appear; prompts are numbered in margins and have a blank line between each. Writing is easily legible & mistakes are neatly erased.	Acceptable Work is presented that lacks some of required organization; writing is usually legible; prompts may not be numbered or properly spaced; mistakes are mostly erased.	Needs Improvement Work lacks most of the required organization or is barely legible.