GLOBAL GRADUATE
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Scoring Open-Ended Items in Reading
A rubric is a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of a student performance on an assigned performance task. “Like
criterion-referenced tests, performance assessments help you compare students’ demonstrated competence with accepted
levels, but the required tasks are generally closer to the real reading and writing that students experience in the classroom.”
(Fountas and Pinnell)
This year students will be asked to write a summary of text read. When scoring student responses to these open-ended
questions, teachers must score the responses holistically. Teachers will consider the cluster of characteristics for each level
and match the student’s performance to the characteristics. The rubrics are designed to look solely at the student’s response
to the question and not at the use of grammar and mechanics found in a student’s response.
Figure 19E Rubric 1
st
– 2
nd
Grade
The summarization rubrics for 1
st
and 2
nd
grade focus on the student’s ability to retell important events found in text in
sequential order. When scoring summaries for 1
st
and 2
nd
grade assessments, teachers should consider the following:
1. Has the student identified information shared in the text from the beginning, middle, and end? (If the response to
this question is yes, then the teacher can consider a score of 3 or 4 as outlined by the rubric.)
2. Has the student identified the most important information shared in the text? (If the response to this question is yes,
then the teacher can consider a score of 3 or 4 as outlined by the rubric.)
3. Is the information the student selected presented in logical or sequential order? (If the response to this question is
yes, then the teacher can consider a score of 3 or 4 as outlined by the rubric.)
ELA.1.Fig19E Retell or act out important events in stories in logical order.
ELA.2.Fig19E Retell important events in stories in logical order.
4
Exemplary Response
3
Sufficient Response
2
Partially Sufficient
Response
1
Insufficient
Response
0
No Response
Retelling has a
complete beginning,
middle and end
Retelling has a
beginning, middle
and end
Retelling provides
fragmented
information related to
beginning, middle
and end
Retelling provides
little or no evidence
of beginning, middle
or end
No response is given
or response given
does not relate to the
text
All details provided in
the retelling reflects
the most important
information/events
Most details provided
in the retelling
reflects the most
relevant
information/events
Some details
provided in the
retelling are
inaccurate or
irrelevant
Retelling provides
only a few sketchy
details
No details are given
Retelling properly
sequences major
events
Retelling properly
sequences most
major events
Retelling properly
sequences some
major events
Retelling does not
properly sequence
most major events
Events are not in any
sequence
Summarization rubric adapted from ReadWriteThink.org, an affiliate of ILA (International Reading Association and NCTE (National Council for Teachers of English)
