Name: _________________________
Role: ______________________________
Statement of Purpose / Focus and Organization
Score
Biome roles
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4
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3
2
1
0
Development: Language and Elaboration of Evidence
Organization
I included a strong
introduction with
supporting evidence in
my Weebly.
I have 3 or more
paragraphs describing
my topic.
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I included a clear
introduction in my
Weebly.
I have 3 paragraphs
describing my topic.
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My photos, captions,
graphs and/or charts
thoroughly support my
topic.
Text supports and
enhances my photos.
I used many different
transitional words.
I included photos,
captions, graphs, and/or
charts that are related to
topic.
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Text supports photos
and/or graphs and
charts.
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I have sentence variety.
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My photos, graphs and
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My introduction is
charts do not have
unfocused or not
captions to support
related to my topic.
them.
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I have 2 paragraphs
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I have limited text
describing my topic.
support for my photos,
graphs and charts.
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I do not have a lot of
sentence variety
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No introduction or
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I did not include an
conclusion
introduction in my
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I used many of the same
Weebly.
sentence starters.
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I have 1 paragraph
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My ideas are not
describing my topic.
connected to the topic
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My photos are not
labeled or captioned
A response gets no credit if it provides no evidence
Biome: ________________________ Score: ____/20
Evidence
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I included evidence in my
own words and used
elaborative details.
Evidence clearly supports
my topic and is focused.
I included evidence in my
own words.
Evidence clearly supports
my topic.
Conventions
Scientific Vocabulary
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I included all key scientific
words related to my topic.
(include keywords:
organism, flow of
energy, biotic & abiotic
factors, producer,
consumer, herbivore,
carnivore, omnivore,
decomposer, food chain)
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I included 3-5 scientific
vocabulary words.
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I have no spelling errors.
I used capital letters and
punctuation correctly.
I used 4th grade sentences
and elaborated effectively.
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I included evidence and
some text is not in my
own words.
Evidence may not stay
focused on topic.
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I included 1-3 scientific
vocabulary words.
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I did not use evidence to
support my topic.
I did not stay on topic
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General vocabulary –
no keywords
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I have less than 3
spelling errors.
I used capital letters and
punctuation correctly.
I used 4th grade
sentences.
I have more than 3
spelling errors.
I used capital letters and
punctuation correctly
most of the time.
My sentences do not
have a lot of
elaboration.
I have many spelling
errors.
I did not use capital
letters and punctuation
all the time.
My sentences do not
have any elaboration.