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Writing News Story- from Interview Writing News Story Rubric Code: E24AW65 By STeach4Ever Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 9-12

News Story
	Excellent 5 pts	Good 4 pts	Needs Revision 2 pts	Needs Instruction 1 pts	Comments (N/A)
Title/Headline	Excellent article has a creative title/headline catches the reader's interest	Good article has a somewhat creative title/headline	Needs Revision article has an uninteresting title/headline	Needs Instruction article does not have a title/headline	Comments
Lead	Excellent lead introduces subject and immediately engages the reader's interest impelling; encourages continued reading. effectively uses the 5Ws and 1H questions	Good lead introduces topic and engages the reader's interest encouraging continued reading mostly uses the 5Ws and 1H questions	Needs Revision lead introduces topic somewhat uses the 5Ws and 1H questions	Needs Instruction lead vaguely introduces topic does not use the structure of a lead few to none o fthe 5Ws and 1H questions used	Comments
Quotes	Excellent quotes set-up correctly and enhance the article for the reader sources adequately present all sides in the story and the information is accurate All sources identified	Good quotes set-up correctly and enhance the article for the reader some sources identified Information is accurate	Needs Revision quotes weakly enhances the article some sources improperly identified some info or opinion is given without support/elaboration most information accurate-may not be as thorough errors in quote set-up	Needs Instruction article does not include any quotes sources improperly identified inaccurate or vague info	Comments
Clear Focus and Unity (content)	Excellent focus of story clear nothing detracts from the focus everything contributes to the overall purpose	Good focus is fairly clear one or two areas may detract from t story's purpose	Needs Revision story lacks strong sense of unity and focus several areas seem to detract from purpose	Needs Instruction no clear angle story rambling and awkward	Comments
Interesting & Effective Style	Excellent writing strong and effective with clear voice and variety of sentence structures Utilizes active and vivid word choice Original writing piece	Good writing is adequate but not extremely compelling or original may be wordy or voice may be unclear May not be as vivid word choice	Needs Revision writing rather bland lacks clear voice and/or sense of originality is wordy or redundant. with repetitive sentence structure	Needs Instruction writing lacks a clear voice and original style	Comments
Effective Organization/Flow	Excellent strongly organized with clear transitions and logical connections sense of being tightly woven together.	Good organized most transitions and connections are clear organization somewhat lacking or sense of flow is somewhat abrupt	Needs Revision story lacks strong organization jumps around too much or lacks effective transitions	Needs Instruction story choppy organization is unclear few effective transitions	Comments
Writing Convensions	Excellent text free of errors in sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling	Good few (one or two) errors in sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling	Needs Revision has several errors in sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling	Needs Instruction has many errors in sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling hard for the reader to follow the story because of it	Comments

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