Story Telling


New Measure Example Language Arts 5 5 8/19/2003	Story Telling Standard/Benchmark: English/Language Arts: Writing For Social Interaction: Student adjusts vocabulary and style to take into account the nature of the audience and relationship. Performance Task: Write a story about how you worked to improve your performance in a school subject to a group of second graders. Send your story to a group of students in your school. (Use this initial idea as a starting point for the prompt/task design process. Please click on the word, "Prompt" for more information and help.)
Performance Element	Level 3	Level 2	Level 1
Organization	The reader can identify a beginning, middle, and end of the story.	The reader thinks there is a beginning, middle, and end of the story.	The reader can't find the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Problem	The problem is well developed. It is easily identifiable to the reader.	There is a problem included, but there are few details apparent to the reader.	The reader is unclear about the story's problems.
Solution	The story concludes with a clear solution which is identifiable to the reader.	The story concludes with an unclear solution to the problem or the solution does not fit the problem per the readers' comments.	There is not an identifiable solution to the problem of the solution has nothing to do with the problem per the readers' comments.
Characterization	The characters can be well described the reader.	The characters are identifiable to the reader, but little information about them is provided.	The characters' names are known to the reader, but they cannot describe anything else about them.
Audience Feedback	The writer checked for audience understanding and asked for audience feedback.	The writer invited audience feedback with a specific question.	The writer did not invite audience feedback.
Class Meeting Criteria	All members of the team can accurately state the purpose of each criteria statement and why each is important.	Most members of the team can accurately state the purpose of each criteria statement and why each is important.	Only a few members of the team can accurately state the purpose of each criteria statement and why each is important.

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