Oral Fluency: Tooth Truth “Performance” Rubric

Emerging Toward Progressing Meeting Exceeding

Expectations Toward Expectations Expectations
Expectations

Pauses The student does The student The student The student
not pause at sometimes pauses pauses performs the
punctuation or at punctuation or appropriately poem, meeting all
between stanzas. between stanzas but with each present criteria: pauses,
has room to work punctuation. expression of
toward more exclamation point
consistency. / question mark,
emphasizes italics
Exclamation The student does The student adjusts The student to match the
Point / not adjust expressions for appropriately sound word , and
Question intonation / only one adjusts their physically
Mark expression for (exclamation point expression for expresses the
exclamation point or question mark) both the poem in a way
or question marks. but not the other. exclamation point that is theatrical
(excited speech) and entertaining,
and question successfully
mark. conveying the
emotion and
Italics / The student does The student The student light-hearted
Sound Word not change his / her changes their emphasizes the nature of this
emphasis or emphasis for the word in italics, children’s poem.
expression when word in italics but mimicking an
reading the word in not in a way that is appropriate sound
italics appropriate for the that matches the
sound it represents. given
onomatopoeia.

Physical The student is still The student has The student uses
Expression working on used some physical several body or
including physical expressions but has facial expressions
expressions (Body room to use more in an appropriate
and facial) when to enhance their manner that adds
reading a poem or oral reading. to their oral
the physical reading.
expressions they
use don’t make
sense for the
content of the
poem.