Marking Rubric
Marking Criteria Very low Limited Satisfactory High Excellent Marks
achievement achievement achievement achievement achievement allocated
Article includes Image and Image or Image and Image and Image and 5
appropriate caption are caption is caption are caption are caption are
image and missing. missing. present. present and present and
caption. appropriate. add to the
story.
Article includes Appropriate One or more All elements All elements All elements 10
appropriate elements are appropriate are present. are present are present
elements such as missing. elements are and used and
headline, byline, missing. appropriately contribute to
lead, body. . the story.
Article is Article Article is Article is Article is Structure of 10
structured misses any somewhat structured structured the article
appropriately. structure. structured noticeably. correctly and supports the
with an appropriately reading and
introduction . understandin
or g of the
conclusion. article.
Writing includes No attention Limited Some Appropriate Creative and 10
appropriate paid to attention attention use of appropriate
vocabulary and vocabulary, paid to paid to vocabulary, use of
sentence types; sentence vocabulary, vocabulary sentence vocabulary,
correct tense types or sentence and types and sentence
used. tense. types or sentence tense. types and
tense. types. Past tense.
tense used.
Accurate Serious Few errors, Very few Less than There are no 5
spelling, errors but they do errors, but two errors. errors in
grammar, interfere with not interfere they do not spelling,
punctuation and the with the interfere with grammar,
syntax. effectiveness effectiveness the etc.
of the article. of the article. effectiveness
of the article.
Article No Some Sufficient Formatting is Formatting is 5
appropriately formatting is formatting is formatting is accurate and creative and
formatted. evident. evident. evident. appropriate. conducive to
reading.
Participation in Very low. Limited. Satisfactory. Good. Very good. 5
group work.
Mark = /50