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Compare/Contrast Writing: Book to movie

The purpose of this rubric is to allow the student to know what the expectations are for writing this comparing/contrasting paragraph. This rubric will help me, the teacher, to assess student writing and inform further instruction. The student will compare and contrast, The Watsons Go To Birmingham book to the movie.

Rubric Code: XX22843

By cshimro

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

C/C Parahraph
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Topic Sentence	Excellent Student has a topic sentence introducing the topic of this writing and the subjects.	Good Student has a topic sentence but does not flow in a way to introduce topic and subjects.	Fair Student has an introduction mentioning the subjects but not the topic of writing.	Poor Student does not have a topic sentence.
Grammar & Spelling (Conventions)	Excellent Writer makes no errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Good Writer makes 1-2 errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Fair Writer makes 3-4 errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.	Poor Writer makes more than 4 errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.
Comparison points	Excellent There are (2) two clear comparison examples between the movie and the book.	Good There are (2) two comparison examples between the movie and the book	Fair There is (1)one comparison example between the movie and the book .	Poor Student has not provided any comparison examples between the movie and the book.
Contrasting points	Excellent There are (2) two clear contrasting examples between the movie and the book.	Good There are (2) two clear contrasting examples between the movie and the book.	Fair There is (1) one clear contrasting example between the movie and the book.	Poor Student has not provided any contrasting examples between the movie and the book.
Transitions	Excellent The paragraph moves smoothly from one idea to the next. The paper uses comparison and contrast transition words to show relationships between ideas. The paragraph uses a variety of sentence structures and transitions.	Good The paragraph moves from one idea to the next, but there is little variety. The paragraph uses comparison and contrast transition words to show relationships between ideas.	Fair Some transitions work well; but connections between other ideas are fuzzy.	Poor The transitions between ideas are unclear or nonexistent.
Supporting Details (quotes)	Excellent Quote is exemplary in proving claim. Includes quotation marks, page number and punctuation are accurate	Good Quote Supports Claim Includes quotations marks and page numbers with some mistakes with punctuation	Fair Missing necessary text to support claim. Incorrectly uses quotation marks and punctuation/ Has page number(s)	Poor Quote does not support claim. Incorrectly uses quotation marks/punctuation mistakes and no page numbers(s)

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