Comic Strip Rubric
CATEGORY        4                     3                     2                     1
Neatness          The final draft is    The final draft of    The final draft of    The final draft is
                  readable, clean,      the story is          the story is          not neat or
                  neat and              readable, neat        readable and. It      attractive. It
                  attractive. It is     and attractive. It    looks like parts      looks like the
                  free of erasures.     looks like the        of it might have      student just
                  It looks like the     author took some      been done in a        wanted to get it
                  author took great     pride in it.          hurry.                done.
                  pride in it.
Parts of Speech   All 8 parts of        All 8 parts of        All 8 parts of        Some parts of
                  speech are used       speech are used       speech are used       speech are used
                  and identified        and some are          and a few are         and identified
                                        identified            identified
Title             Title is creative,    Title is related to Title is present,       No title.
                  sparks interest       the story and       but does not
                  and is related to     topic.              appear to be
                  the story and                             related to the
                  topic.                                    story and topic.
Creativity        The story             The story             The story             There is little
                  contains many         contains a few        contains a few        evidence of
                  creative details      creative details      creative details      creativity and t
                  and the author        and the author        and the author        he author does
                  has really used       has used his          has tried to use      not seem to have
                  his imagination.      imagination.          his imagination.      used much
                                                                                    imagination.
Illustrations     Original              Original              Original              Illustrations are
                  illustrations are     illustrations are     illustrations         not present OR
                  detailed,             somewhat              relate to the text    they are not
                  attractive,           detailed,             on the page.          original.
                  creative and          attractive, and
                  relate to the text    relate to the text
                  on the page.          on the page.
Spelling and      There are no          There is one          There are 2-3         The final draft
Punctuation       spelling or           spelling or           spelling and          has more than 3
                  punctuation           punctuation error     punctuation           spelling and
                  errors in the final   in the final draft.   errors in the final   punctuation
                  draft.                                      draft.                errors.
Humor             The Comic Strip The Comic Strip The Comic Strip What is humor?
                  is funny and    is funny and    is not so funny
                  made us LOL     made us smile