Rubric for Evaluation of Poetry

Student Rubric

Starting Out On My Way Wow!

Words  vague words  words describe  just the right
 ordinary, tired what I mean words
words  Some words are  words create clear
especially good pictures in my
head
Sound  no rhythm to the  some rhythm is  the rhythm of the
words like what I want words is like the
 sounds like regular  sometimes the meaning I want
reading sounds reflect the  sounds contribute
meaning to the message
Feelings  my reader is  my reader has a  my reader gets an
confused or connection with emotional
doesn’t connect what I wrote response to what I
with what I wrote wrote
Topic  I just wrote about  the topic has some  the topic is
whatever came elements that are a original/ new
into my head little new or fresh  the way I looked at
 predictable  I looked at things this topic is fresh
meaning in a bit of an and surprising
unusual way

Teacher Rubric

Starting Out On My Way Wow!

Poetic  mundane  descriptive but  precise and
Lang , imprecise prosaic language vivid vocabulary
uage vocabulary  irrelevant details  just the right
and  clichés, or missing details amount of detail to
Imagery tired expressions  overuse of some create images
 little use of images words or devices  effective use of
or other literary images and other
devices literary devices
Sound  no rhythm or  rhythmic  rhythm and
and inconsistent metre elements, with metre are
Sense  reads prosaically some consistent with
inconsistencies or sense of poem
misses  sound of words
 sound reflects and lines
meaning with some contribute to
inconsistencies evocative imagery
Sandra Falconer Pace, adapted from T. Loftsgard, September 2002
Audienc  reader is  reader is  reader
e confused or interested responds
Reactio indifferent emotionally to
n poem
Topic  subject is  topic has some  topic is
predictable and elements that are a original
mundane or trivial little new or fresh  perspective on
or treated in an topic is fresh,
unusual way surprising or
unusual

Sandra Falconer Pace, adapted from T. Loftsgard, September 2002