1. EOC Rubric
Connecting Selections
 Score point 3: EXEMPLARY response
 Indicates an ACCOMPLISHED reading
performance
 Score point 2: SUFFICIENT response

Indicates a SATISFACTORY reading
performance
 Score point 1: PARTIALLY SUFFICIENT
 Indicates a BASIC reading performance
 Score point 0: INSUFFIECIENT response

Indicates a VERY LIMITED reading performance

2. What’s for dinner??
Insufficient:
Partially sufficient:
Sufficient:

3. EXEMPLARY!

4. Transportation??
Exemplary

5. Exemplary
Vacation??

6. Score Point 3
 Exemplary responses indicate an
ACCOMPLISHED reading performance.

The idea is



PERCEPTIVE
and reflects an AWARENESS of the
COMPLEXITIES of the text.
The student develops


a COHERENT explanation of the idea
by making DISCERNING connections across
both selections.

7. Text Evidence
 For both selections, the text evidence
is SPECIFIC
 and WELL CHOSEN.

 The evidence STRONGLY supports the
validity of the idea.

8. Putting it all together…
 For both selections
 the
COMBINATION of the idea and
the text evidence demonstrates a
DEEP UNDERSTANDING of the text.
Idea
Text Evidence

9. A➜T➜E
A: Answer the question clearly

If it is too vague or general, then you will receive a
zero (0)!
T: Thinking—

Explain the answer you gave.
If your answer is reasonable, but there is no bridge
between your answer and your evidence, then you will
not get above a one (1)!
E: Evidence—
The evidence you give
must support your answer, not echo your answer!

10. A➜T➜E
A: Answer the question clearly

If it is too vague or general, then you will receive a
zero (0)!
T: Thinking—

Explain the answer you gave.
If your answer is reasonable, but there is no bridge
between your answer and your evidence, then you will
not get above a one (1)!
E: Evidence—
The evidence you give
must support your answer, not echo your answer!