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Story Elements: , Beginning, Middle, & End

The learner will provide a description of the key points of the beginning, middle, and end of a story through class discussion.

Rubric Code: WBWWAC

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Subject: English

Type: Reading

Grade Levels: K-5

Story Elements
	Emerging 1 pts	Developing 2 pts	Applying 3 pts	Innovating 4 pts
Beginning of story	Emerging Student attempts to identify how the story began, but is incorrect.	Developing Student can give 1 detail from the beginning of the story, but does not state the key point, or what the problem is.	Applying Student identifies key elements of the beginning of the story, including the problem or situation.	Innovating Student correctly expresses all key elements from the beginning of the story, including the problem, and describes how it introduces the story.
Middle of story	Emerging Student attempts to identify events from the middle of story, but is unable to correctly do so.	Developing Student can give 1 event from the middle of story, but leaves out the key point(s), or what the character(s) is doing to solve the problem.	Applying Student identifies key elements from the middle of the story, which tell what the character(s) is doing to solve the problem.	Innovating Student correctly identifies all the key elements of the story and can express why it is important to the story.
End of story	Emerging Student attempts to identify events from the end of story, but is unable to do so.	Developing Student can give 1 event from the end of story, but leave out key point.	Applying Student identifies key elements from the end of the story.	Innovating Student correctly expresses all the key elements from the ending of the story and describes how it concludes the action.
Characters	Emerging Student does not identify the important characters when retelling.	Developing Student identifies some important characters and may or may not use their name when retelling.	Applying Student identifies the important characters but refers to them using pronouns when retelling.	Innovating Student identifies the important characters and uses their names when retelling.
Prompting	Emerging Student could not retell without constant teacher prompting.	Developing Student needed some prompts in order to retell.	Applying Student needed a few prompts in order to retell.	Innovating Student did not need any prompting in order to retell.

Keywords:

character, setting, beginning, middle, end

Subjects:

English

Types:

Reading

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