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Oral Recitation Rubric
Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement
(20 points) (15 points) (10 points) (5 points)
Delivery • Speaks with fluctuation in • Speaks with satisfactory • Speaks in uneven volume • Speaks in low volume and/
volume and inflection to variation of volume and with little or no inflection or monotonous tone,
maintain audience interest inflection which causes audience to
and emphasize key points disengage
Content/ • Demonstrates full • Is at ease with expected • Is uncomfortable with • Does not have grasp of
Organization knowledge by answering answers to all questions, information and is able to information and cannot
all class questions without elaboration answer only rudimentary answer questions about
with explanations and • Has somewhat clear questions subject
elaboration purpose and subject; some • Attempts to define purpose • Does not clearly define
• Provides clear purpose and examples, facts, and/or and subject; provides subject and purpose;
subject; pertinent examples, statistics that support the weak examples, facts, and/ provides weak or no
facts, and/or statistics; subject; includes some data or statistics, which do not support of subject; gives
supports conclusions/ideas or evidence that supports adequately support the insufficient support for ideas
with evidence conclusions subject; includes very thin or conclusions
data or evidence
Enthusiasm/ • Demonstrates strong • Shows some enthusiastic • Shows little or mixed • Shows no interest in topic
Audience enthusiasm about topic feelings about topic feelings about the topic presented
during entire presentation • Raises audience being presented • Fails to increase audience
Awareness • Significantly increases understanding and • Raises audience understanding of
audience understanding awareness of most points understanding and knowledge of topic
and knowledge of topic; knowledge of some points
convinces an audience to
recognize the validity and
importance of the subject
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