Story Writing : Immigration Story

Teacher Name: Mr. Shields

Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY
Title

Setting

Characters

Accuracy of Facts

4
3
Title is creative, sparks Title is related to the
interest and is related story and topic.
to the story and topic.

Many vivid, descriptive Some vivid,

words are used to tell descriptive words are
when and where the
used to tell the
story took place.
audience when and
where the story took
place.
The main characters
The main characters
are named and clearly are named and
described in text as
described. Most
well as pictures. Most readers would have
readers could describe some idea of what the
the characters
characters looked like.
accurately.

All facts presented in Almost all facts

the story are accurate. presented in the story
( 8-10 Facts)
are accurate. (5-7
Facts)

Focus on Assigned
Topic

The entire story is

Most of the story is
related to the assigned related to the assigned
topic and allows the
topic. The story
reader to understand wanders off at one
much more about the point, but the reader
topic.
can still learn
something about the
topic.

Creativity

The story contains

many creative details
and/or descriptions
that contribute to the
reader\'s enjoyment.
The author has really
used his imagination.

Spelling and
Punctuation

There are no spelling There is one spelling

or punctuation errors or punctuation error in
in the final draft.
the final draft.
Character and place
names that the author
invented are spelled
consistently
throughout.

Neatness

The final draft of the

story is readable,
clean, neat and
attractive. It is free of
erasures and crossedout words. It looks like
the author took great
pride in it.

The story contains a

few creative details
and/or descriptions
that contribute to the
reader\'s enjoyment.
The author has used
his imagination.

The final draft of the

story is readable, neat
and attractive. It may
have one or two
erasures, but they are
not distracting. It looks
like the author took
some pride in it.

migration Story

2
1
Title is present, but
No title.
does not appear to be
related to the story
and topic.
The reader can figure
out when and where
the story took place,
but the author didn\'t
supply much detail.

The reader has trouble

figuring out when and
where the story took
place.

The main characters

It is hard to tell who
are named. The reader the main characters
knows very little about are.
the characters.

Most facts presented

in the story are
accurate (2-4 Facts)

There are several

factual errors in the
story. (0-1 Fact)

Some of the story is

No attempt has been
related to the assigned made to relate the
topic, but a reader
story to the assigned
does not learn much
topic.
about the topic.

The story contains a

few creative details
and/or descriptions,
but they distract from
the story. The author
has tried to use his
imagination.

There is little evidence

of creativity in the
story. The author does
not seem to have used
much imagination.

There are 2-3 spelling The final draft has

and punctuation errors more than 3 spelling
in the final draft.
and punctuation
errors.

The final draft of the

story is readable and
some of the pages are
attractive. It looks like
parts of it might have
been done in a hurry.

The final draft is not

neat or attractive. It
looks like the student
just wanted to get it
done and didn\'t care
what it looked like.