SJK(C) KONG HWA POETRY RECITATION COMPETITION SCORING RUBRIC

The scoring rubric is meant to provide a consistent measure against which to evaluate recitations. It is not intended to be comprehensive but serves as a companion to the
evaluation criteria. Review it before the competition to get a sense of what you look for an individual performances.
VERY WEAK WEAK AVERAGE GOOD EXCELLENT OUTSTANDING
PHYSICAL Stiff or agitated; lacks Timid; unsure; eye Body language and eye Comfortable; steady Poised; body language Authoritative; body
PRESENCE eye contact with contact and body contact are at times eye contact and and eye contact reveal language and eye
audience; appears language reflects unsure, at time confident body strong stage presence contact show
uncomfortable nervousness confident language compelling stage
presence
VOICE AND Inaudible; slow; Audible, but quiet; too Clear, adequate Clear, appropriate Very clear, crisp Very clear, crisp
ARTICULATION distracting rhythm; loud; monotone; paced intonation; even pacing intonation and pacing effective use of mastery of rhythm and
singsong; hurried; unevenly; affected tone volume, intonation, pace; skillful use of
mispronunciations rhythm, and pacing volume and intonation
DRAMATIC Poem is overshadowed Poem is secondary to Poem is neither Poem is enhanced by Style of delivery Style of delivery
APPRORIATENESS by significant style of delivery; overwhelmed nor style of delivery; any reflects precedence of reflects internalization
distracting gestures, includes instances of enhanced by style of gestures, facial poem; poem’s voice is of poem; all gestures
facial expressions, distracting gestures, delivery expressions, and well conveyed and movements feel
inflections or accents; facial expressions, and movement are essential to poem’s
acting out of poem; vocal inflections; appropriate to poem success
singing; over-emoting; inappropriate tone
inappropriate tone.
LEVEL OF Simple content, easy Straight-forward One element of Contains two elements Contains very Contains extremely
COMPLEXITY language, short length language and content; challenging content: of challenging content. challenging content challenging content
moderate length language or length language, or length and language; length is and language; length is
appropriate to the challenging for a poem
complexity of the of this complexity
poem
EVIDENCE OF Obscures meaning of Doesn’t sufficiently Satisfactorily Conveys meaning of Interprets poem very Masterfully interprets
UNDERSTANDING poem communicate meaning communicates poem well well for audience; poem for audience,
of poem meaning of poem nuanced deftly revealing
poem’s meaning
OVERALL Ineffective or Inadequate recitation; Sufficient recitation; Enjoyable recitation; Inspired performance Captivating
PERFORMANCE inappropriate lackluster; does lacks meaningful successfully delivers shows grasp of performance – whole
recitation; does disservice to poem impact on audience poem recitation skills and equals “more than the
disservice to poem enhances audience’s sum of the parts”;
experience of the poem shows mastery of
recitation skills
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