assessment rubrics for storytelling projects
- Original Author: Jill Pears, Selwyn House School, New Zealand
- Education Level: Preschool and Kindergarten, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College and University, Professional Development, Other
- Content Types: Assessment, Handout, Website
- Curricular Areas: Language Arts
- Keywords: rubric, storytelling, self-assessment
Short description of the assessment forms (by Jill Pears): Students do a storytelling project based on a school camp. The rubric and self evaluation can be used for any storytelling project.
Assessment is based on the following attributes:
- Structure
- Character
- Language Features
- Vocabulary
- Surface Features
- Graphics
- Programming Structures
- Background
- Originality / Risk taking / Experimentation
- Problem solving
In the self-assessment form, the student are asked to review the following aspects of their storytelling project.
- My story has a beginning, middle, and end with supporting detail.
- My characters have distinct personalities that are demonstrated by what they say and do.
- I make my recount more interesting by using language features such as alliteration, simile, onomatopoeia, metaphor and personification.
- I use interesting and high quality vocabulary.
- I make and edit detailed graphics that help tell my story.
- I make and edit detailed backgrounds that help tell my story.
- I make sure all the surface features such as capital letters, grammar punctuations, and spelling are correct.
- I use a wide variety of different programming structures.