Newsletter Project: What? No more Water!

Teacher name: Mr. Helleson

Student Name ___________________

CATEGORY	20	15	10	5
Content	Ideas are clear and focused. Content reflects that the student understands a great number of uses and needs of water.	Ideas are clear and focused. Content reflects that the student understands some uses and needs of water.	Ideas are not very clear and focused. Content only points out one or two uses or needs of water.	Content doesn’t focus on the uses and needs of water.
Graphics and Illustrations	Use of graphics and illustrations help to explain the content.	Graphics and illustrations are used.	Some graphics and illustrations interfere with the content or meaning of the presentation	Little or no extra graphics and illustrations.
Organization	Content is well organized and is easy to understand from beginning to end.	Organization of content is clear and readable.	Content is a little unclear and difficult to understand.	There is lots of information put together with no sense of organization.
Conventions	Spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation are generally correct.	Spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation contain just minor errors.	Spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation contain many errors.	Mistakes in spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation make the piece difficult to read.