NARRATIVE SCORING GUIDE

Directions:

1)As you read and review a narrative, focus on the criteria for scoring. Note textual evidence for each criterion as well as the effects created by the author’s choices to assist you in the final scoring process.

2)For each criterion, review your textual evidence,the effect the author created with that portion of the text, and the descriptorsfor each score on the NarrativeRubric.

3)Determine a score for each criterion and write the score in the score column on the Textual Evidence Sheet. Notice that you may assign a score of 4 or 2 if you determine a narrative should score in between the descriptors.

4)Total the scores for all four of the narrative criteria, and place that score next to the narrative titleat the top of the Textual Evidence Sheet.

NARRATIVE RUBRIC

Criterion /
5 /
4 /
3 /
2 /
1
Focus/
Exposition /
  • Purposely engages the reader by setting out a problem or situation and its significance
  • Establishes a narrator or point of view
  • Expertly introduces a narrator and/or characters
/
  • Attempts to engage or orient the reader by setting out a problem or situation
  • Attempts to establish one or multiple point(s) of view
  • Introduces a narrator and/or characters
/
  • Does not engage or orient the reader by setting out a problem or situation
  • Does not establish one or multiple point(s) of view
  • Does not introduce narrator and/or characters

Organization/
Plot /
  • Expertly creates a smooth progression of experiences or events
  • Adeptly uses a variety of techniques to sequence events that build on one another to create a coherent whole and develop a particular tone and outcome (i.e. mystery, suspense, surprise)
  • Skillfully provides a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative
/
  • Experiences and events are somewhat connected
  • Uses a variety of techniques to sequence events that build on one another to create a coherent whole and develop a tone or outcome
  • Provides a conclusion that connects to the narrated experiences or events
/
  • Event sequence unfolds illogically
  • Does not use sequencing techniques to create coherence or develop a tone or outcome
  • Provides no conclusion or one that is not connected to the rest of the narrative

Narrative
Techniques/
Literary
Elements /
  • Skillfully utilizes narrative techniques such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines to develop experiences, events, and/or characters
  • Sophisticated use of precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters
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  • Uses a variety of narrative techniques such as dialogue, pacing, and description to develop experiences, events, and/or characters
  • Uses some descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events
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  • Uses few to no narrative techniques
  • Does not use sensory language or descriptive details

Language /
  • Uses purposeful and varied sentence structure
  • Contains minimal to no errors in conventions (grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization)
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  • Uses mostly correct and some varied sentence structure
  • Contains some errors in conventions which may cause confusion
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  • Lacks sentence mastery (i.e. fragment/run-ons)
  • Contains serious and pervasive errors in conventions

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TEXTUAL EVIDENCE SHEET

NARRATIVE TITLE/AUTHOR:
CRITERION / TEXTUAL EVIDENCE / EFFECT(S) / SCORE
Focus/Exposition / “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America…’of course you can be prodigy too’….She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China…But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.” / The reader understands that the narrator’s mother is focused on the promise of America because she lost everything in China. The reader will be sympathetic to her.
Organization/Plot
- / “In the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so…after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die…I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not…Old Chong and my mother conspired to have me play in a talent show…I never really listened to what I was playing…I played this strange jumble through two repeats, the sour notes staying with me all the way to the end…I wish I was dead! Like them…I opened up the Schumann book to the…peice
CRITERION (con’t) / TEXTUAL EVIDENCE(con’t) / EFFECT(S)(con’t) / SCORE
(con’t)
Narrative Techniques/
Literary Elements
Language

FOR TASK 1 ONLY:Remember to write an accurate, thoughtful 4-5 sentence summary of the process for scoring a narrative. Attach your summary to this page.