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Book Review Rubric: Informational Text

The students will create a book to represent their student-chosen book. They will create a book jacket which is a one pager that includes, the title, author and illustration on front with a summary and review on back. Inside the jacket, Page 1:Analysis of Text Features and Text Structure. Page 2: a short review including a character analysis of a main characters, setting and elements of the genre, and the lesson they learned through reading the book and why that lesson matters in their life. Students will present book reports to class and a typed or black-ink written copy must be given to teacher to follow during presentation.

Rubric Code: ZXWCAX9

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Book Report
	Did Not Follow Directions 1 pts	Needs Improvement 2 pts	Almost There 3 pts	Way to Go 4 pts
Lead / Title Book Review has an interesting and engaing lead with title, author and illustrator of book mentioned	Did Not Follow Directions DNFD- There is no lead present	Needs Improvement Lead is dull, does not capture readers' attention and title or author missing.	Almost There Lead is present but could add more deatils to make it more interesting.	Way to Go Lead is interesting and cpatures reader's attention. Title, author and illustrator given.
Informational Text Features Discusses maps, charts, diagrams illustrations and captions.	Did Not Follow Directions DNFD- Did not complete	Needs Improvement Characters were listed, but no description given Time or place missing.	Almost There One or two characters given with minimal description Time and place given, but not described	Way to Go Characters were all listed. Descriptions were complete. Setting described comepletly
Synopsis Give a brief description of the important informational text topics	Did Not Follow Directions DNFD- Did not complete	Needs Improvement Description is incomplete.	Almost There Description is given. Thoughts are incomplete.	Way to Go A complete description of the story is given.
Connections making a connection from the book, with examples from the story.	Did Not Follow Directions DNFD- Did not complete	Needs Improvement A connection is given without an example from the story.	Almost There Connection is given but no clear example of how it relates to the story.	Way to Go Connection is clear and an example is given from the story.
Review Give your opinion of the book, reccomondation of the book and explanation	Did Not Follow Directions DNFD- Did not complete opinion and reccomendation	Needs Improvement An opinion and reccomendation are given without reasons.	Almost There An opinion and reccomendation of the book are given with weak reasons.	Way to Go An opinion and reccomendation of the book are given with strong reasons/ support.
Neatness The report is written cleanly. Proper spelling and grammar.	Did Not Follow Directions	Needs Improvement The report is not written neatly and has many errors in grammar, punctuation, and/or spelling	Almost There The report is written neatly and has few minor errors in grammar, punctuation, or spelling.	Way to Go The report is written very neatly. It has very few minor errors in grammar, punctuation, or spelling, or no errors at all.

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