Reading Portfolio Rubric

Excellent
4 pts

Book Reports

Excellent

Portfolio contains
more than three
pieces of work.
Organization

Excellent

Portfolio is very
neat and logically
organized.

Knowledge
Displayed

Potential

Excellent
Portfolio
demonstrates a
mastery of
knowledge in
subject area.

Excellent
Portfolio accurately
represents
student's capacity
and potential and
demonstrates
diligence and
responsibility.

SAMPLE A

Good
3 pts

Good

Portfolio
contains three
pieces of work.

Good

Fair
2 pts

Poor
1 pts

Unsatisfactory
0 pts

Fair

Poor

Unsatisfactory

Fair

Poor

Unsatisfactory

Fair

Poor

Unsatisfactory

Portfolio contains Portfolio contains Portfolio contains zero

two pieces of
one piece of
pieces of work.
work.
work.

Portfolio is
Portfolio is not Portfolio is not Portfolio is not neat
mostly neat and very neat and/or neat and/or has and/or organized.
logically
has one or two three or more
organized.
elements that
elements not
are not logically logically
organized.
organized.

Good
Portfolio
demonstrates
advanced
knowledge in
subject area.

Good

Portfolio
Portfolio
Portfolio demonstrates an
demonstrates
demonstrates an unsatisfactory
basic
approaching
understanding of
understanding of basic
knowledge in subject
knowledge in
understanding of area.
subject area.
knowledge in
subject area.

Fair

Poor

Unsatisfactory

Portfolio
Portfolio
Portfolio
Portfolio does not
represents
represents
represents a
represent the student's
student's
student's
desire by the
potential or capacity.
capacity and
capacity and
student to
potential, yet
potential, yet
simply complete
demonstrates a demonstrates a a portfolio that
slight lack of
strong lack of
includes the
diligence and
diligence and
requirements,
responsibility.
responsibility, as yet does not
shown in student represent the
work samples. students best
abilities.

SAMPLE B: STORY
Portfolio Rubric
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Poor
1 pts
Character
Has the student shown
growth in character
knowledge?

Setting
Has the student shown
growth in understanding
of story setting?

Fair
2 pts

Poor

Good
3 pts

Fair

Good

The student has stayed

The student has shown
The student has shown
consistent in character
growth in the ability to namegrowth in naming main
identification knowledge and main characters and
characters and additional
has not shown growth
additional characters but
characters and is able to
lacks the ability to tell
give additional details about
details about characters.
characters.

Poor
The student has shown no
growth in setting
identification.

Poor

Problem
Has the student shown
growth in identifying
problem and resolution
of the problem.

The student has shown no

growth in problem
identification.

Retelling
Has the student shown
improvement in
summarizing stories
after reading them?

The student has shown no

growth in their ability to
summarize stories.

Poor

Fair
The student has shown
growth in identifying the
main setting of a story.

Good
The student has shown
growth in identifying the
main setting of the story
and any additional setting of
the story and why the
setting is important to the
story.

Fair

Good

The student has shown

some growth in identifying
the problem of the story but
is unable to tell how the
problem was resolved.

Student has shown growth

in problem identification and
can describe how the
problem was resolved.

Fair

Good

The student is able to retell

story with 3 parts of the
story (beg. mid. end) The
student may add too many
details or not add any
details.

The student retells story

with beg. mid. and end. The
study adds one or two
additional details of the
story that they found of
interest.

SAMPLE C: LITERATURE
Reading & Writing
Advanced Proficient Proficient
4 pts
3 pts
Standard 6

Advanced
Proficient

Proficient

Most of the time uses

Always uses literary
terminology such as literary terminology
setting, plot character, such as setting, plot
character, problem &
problem & solution;
uses new vocabulary solution; uses new
from literature in othervocabulary from
literature in other
context, recognizes
the concept of classic context, recognizes
the concept of classic
literature
literature

Developing
2 pts

Beginning
1 pts

Developing

Beginning

Sometimes uses
literary terminology
such as setting, plot
character, problem &
solution; uses new
vocabulary from
literature in other
context, recognizes
the concept of classic
literature

Seldom uses literary

terminology such as
setting, plot character,
problem & solution;
uses new vocabulary
from literature in other
context, recognizes
the concept of classic
literature