PSSA Writing Rubric



PSSA Writing Rubric (Text Structure/Text Feature Project)

| |FOCUS |CONTENT |ORGANIZATION |STYLE |CONVENTIONS |

| |Very good ideas about one specific |Evidence of 5 different Text Features. A|All information is neatly written and |Excellent word choice. Creative display|Very few mistakes in grammar, |

| |topic. |description of each of the following |organization of included items is |of materials |punctuation, spelling, and |

|4 | |text structures: Enumeration, Sequence, |appropriate. | |capitalization. |

| | |Problem/Solution, Cause/Effect, | | | |

| | |Compare/Contrast, and Question/Answer. | | | |

| | |The acronym P.I.E. with an explanation. | | | |

| |Good ideas focused on one topic. |Evidence of 3-5 different Text Features.|Most information is neatly written and |Good word choice. Some creativity is |Some mistakes in grammar, punctuation, |

| | |A description of some of the following |organization of included items is |evident. |spelling, and capitalization. |

|3 | |text structures: Enumeration, Sequence, |appropriate. | | |

| | |Problem/Solution, Cause/Effect, | | | |

| | |Compare/Contrast, and Question/Answer. | | | |

| | |The acronym P.I.E. with an explanation. | | | |

| |A few ideas with appropriate focus |Evidence of some Text Features. A |Some information is neatly written with |Evidence of a plan is present. |Many mistakes in grammar, punctuation, |

| | |description of some of the text |some organization of included items. | |spelling, and capitalization, but still |

|2 | |structures: Enumeration, Sequence, | | |understandable. |

| | |Problem/Solution, Cause/Effect, | | | |

| | |Compare/Contrast, and Question/Answer. | | | |

| |Focus is unclear. |No examples or descriptions. |Lack of Information. No organization |Words on a page. |Difficult to understand because of |

| | | | | |mistakes in grammar, punctuation, |

|1 | | | | |spelling, and capitalization. MESSY |

Academic Literacy Text Structure Poster Performance Task

You are a newspaper editor and you are interviewing people for a journal writing position on your newspaper. You want your new employee to know how important text structure and text features are in writing a newspaper. Subsequently, you came up with the brilliant idea to design a poster showing several different text features and describing the different types of text structures. Your poster must include a minimum of five different text features. In addition, your poster must include descriptive information on each of the following text structures: Enumeration, Sequence, Problem/Solution, Cause/Effect, Compare/Contrast, and Question/Answer. Finally, you will want to include the acronym P.I.E. with an explanation. Feel free to add any additional information you feel might be important for a new journal writer to know about the newspaper business.

You will be graded on content, mechanics, creativity, appearance, and presentation in accordance to the attached rubric. You will be given one class day to put the finishing touches on your poster. That day will be November 24th. Your completed project will be due November 25th.

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