New Social Studies Short Answer Rubric

Instead of our regular short answer rubric, we have created one just for social studies.  Since it is the middle of the year, we think it is time to decrease the emphasis on construction of sentences in our grading and increase the weight on the actual content that is being tested.  Woohoo!  This grading change will be reflected on this week's social studies test.  Thanks!

Happy Hero Day!

Today, we had Dwight Howard, Hermione Granger, Jeff Foxworthy, multiple Matt Ryans, and many other fabulous heroes in our classroom. 

The costumes were great, and the book fair is awesome!  Our class will preview the book fair on Monday, November 29. 

I have added links to the 2nd Quarter Book Report rubric, instructions, and outline on to the "Forms" page of the blog so the students can work on the book report during Thanksgiving break inbetween eating turkey legs and pumpkin pie. (MMMmmm! Pumpkin pie!)

Short Answer Rubric

 For our short answer questions, the fourth grade teachers all use the following rubric to grade the answers.  We use this rubric in Social Studies and Language Arts. 

3 points	Answer is written in complete sentences. All sentences have a subject and a predicate. There are no run-ons.
3 points	The student answers the question and uses examples from the text to justify his or her answer.
2 points	The sentences begin with a capital letter.
2 points	The sentences have end punctuation.