Critical Reading Rubric

The Building Blocks: Literary Analysis, Grammar, Rhetoric

 

Student is adept at symbolic interpretation and rhetorical analysis, and will reread and annotate. Student has an excellent vocabulary.  Student understands syntactic and grammatical choices as they affect meaning.

 

9

 

Student can analyze passages for ethos, logos, pathos, and an array of rhetorical strategies. Students analyze purpose, audience, method, structure, diction…

 

8

 

Student can spot multiple literary devices and understand their purpose and effectiveness.

 

7

 

Student can annotate, apply etymological strategies, and can pick up context clues.

 

6

 

Reader can read on the metaphorical level. The reader can understand tone, irony, and symbolism.

 

5

 

Reader comprehends on a literal level, but can spot some basic literary components such as foreshadowing, figurative language, and can spot theme with rereading.

 

4

 

Literal understanding. Reader can retell the plot, can decode average vocabulary.

 

3

 

Literal understanding. Reader can retell most of the plot, but might have trouble with main ideas and inferences.  Below average vocabulary.

 

2

 

Student struggles with reading and needs remediation.

 

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