Write a one and a half- page essay on the impact of oral language, writing, and an information-intensive environment upon children’s reading development. Please consult the rubric before attempting this assignment. Use the attached documents for this assignment. The attached documents include resources and rubric you need to use to successfully complete this assignment.
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Rubric for Essay
After completion of assigned reading(s), write a one and a half- page essay on the impact of oral language, writing, and an information intensive environment upon children’s reading development.
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CRITERIA Not Met
Less than 70 points Developing
(70 – 79 points) Competent
(80 – 89 points) Outstanding
(90 – 100 points) Points Earned
Structure
• Organization Flow of thought
• Transitions
• Format • There is no apparent organization to the paper
• Difficult to follow
• No or poor transitions
• No format • There is some level of organization though too many digressions, ambiguities, and irrelevances
• Difficult to follow
• Ineffective transitions
• Rambling format • Paper has a clear organizational structure with some digressions, ambiguities or irrelevances
• Easily followed
• Basic transitions
• Structured format • Paper is logically organized
• Easily followed
• Effective, smooth, and logical transitions
• Professional format
Content/Information
• Clarity of content
• Critical and original thought
• Use of examples • Central idea and clarity of purpose are absent or incompletely expressed and maintained
• Little or no evidence of critical, careful thought analysis and/or insight
• There are too few/no examples and evidence, or they are irrelevant • The central idea is expressed though it may be vague or too broad; Some sense of purpose is maintained in the essay
• Some evidence of critical careful thought and analysis and/or insight
• There are some examples and evidence, though general
• Central idea and clarity of purpose are generally evident throughout the essay
• Evidence of critical, careful thought and analysis and/or insight
• There are good, relevant examples and supporting evidence • Central idea is well developed, and clarity purpose is exhibited throughout the paper
• Abundance of evidence of critical, careful thought and analysis and/or insight
• Evidence and examples are vivid and specific, while focus remains tight
Support
• Development of ideas
• Assumptions
• Details • Offers simplistic, undeveloped, or cryptic support for ideas
• faulty assumptions; and/or errors of fact
• inappropriate or off-topic generalizations
• Offers some support that may be dubious, too broad or obvious
• Assumptions are somewhat faulty
• Details are too general • Offers solid but less original reasoning
• Assumptions are not always recognized or made explicit
• Contains some appropriate details or examples
• Substantial, logical, and concrete development of ideas.
• Assumptions are made explicit.
• Details are germane, original, and convincingly interpreted
Sources Fails to use sources and/or overuses quotations or paraphrasing and/or uses source material without acknowledgement. Uses relevant sources but substitutes them for the writer’s own ideas. Uses sources to support, extend, and inform the writer’s own development of ideas. Uses sources to support, extend, and inform, but not substitute for writer’s own development of ideas. Skillfully combines material from a variety of sources.
Conventions Mechanical and usage errors so severe that writer’s ideas are difficult to understand Repeated weaknesses in mechanics and usage. Grammar and syntax are correct with very few errors in spelling or punctuation Essentially error free. Evidence of superior control of diction
Total Points Earned
50 Possible Points