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| -You show a complete understanding of what you have read. | -You show a good understanding of what your have read. | -You show some understanding of what you have read. | -You tried, but it is difficult to tell from what you wrote that you understand the story. | -You wrote nothing on your paper. |
| -You get all of the facts from the story right. | -You get major facts from the story right. | -You may have some mistakes about what you have read. | -You made a big mistake about what happened in the story. | |
| -You go beyond the story to connect it to what you have learned and/or you can explain why you agree or disagree with the story. | -You tell more than just the story and can match it with something that is not in the story. | -You just tell what is in the story. | -You copied right from the story to answer your question...you didn't put things in your own words. | |
| -You use examples from the story and can tell how it matches other things you know about and what you think about the story is written. | -You use examples from the story, some of your own experiences and other things you have read or seen. | -You use examples from the story that connect to what you already know or have seen but are incomplete. | -You wrote down things that had nothing to do with the story. | |