Newsletter Grading Guidelines
Your Name ____________________________ Grade ____________
The following guidelines determine the grade on the newsletter project.
Add your name and use this grading rubric to grade yourself by circling
the grade that best applies to your assignment, then staple this to the
top of your two page newsletter.F level work: did not hand it in on time.
D level work:
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any spelling mistakes;
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No matter how much work you put into your communication to parents and
community, it is all undone by the presence of spelling errors. Those mistakes
are either interpreted as a teacher who does not know how to spell or does
not care if the spelling is right. Either conclusion damages your professional
reputation.
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There is a simple solution. Use a spelling checker. Always have a colleague
look over your work in addition to using computer error checking for spelling.
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Did just part of one page, not two.
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Did not include a story that focuses on one or more ways that students will
learn something new about computer technology in this unit of study.
C level work:
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other grammatical errors; Grammatical errors have a similar impact
to spelling. Always have a colleague look over your work in addition to
using computer error checking for grammar.
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some requirements of the Clarisworks newsletter such as two images (one
of yourself) or text areas are missing or empty;
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background placement lines have not been covered up;
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the pages look very incomplete; 2 full pages needed.
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other than your portrait shot of yourself, image use is not closely
related to the theme of the unit plan.
B level work:
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everything but one element (story, image or title) is present or too many images
are used, filling up story areas with images instead of writing a newsletter
story.
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or the text in the newsletter that you copied from the Internet doesn't
really match up with the theme of your newsletter;
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or you forgot to cite the source for a piece of the data you inserted.
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Your image in the photograph does not fill the frame (a tight portrait shot is
needed).
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the pages look somewhat incomplete; 2 full pages needed.
A level work. The creator has followed the newsletter assignment
details. It really looks like a newsletter that parents
and children would be proud to receive; all required elements of text and
image are present; you have written one of the pieces in the newsletter
yourself. The text of the newsletter makes sense and has relevance to your
unit plan activities; and you finished it in time to make changes after
somebody proofed it for spelling and grammar.
Newsletter Assignment
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