Book Jacket

This description of the book is found on the cover. It may hint at the exciting parts of the plot or begin to describe a character. A book jacket is also art that incorporates a design that represents the book. The author's name and the title are also on the book jacket. Look at the covers of books for real life examples.

CATEGORY

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Front Cover

Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name. Font and colors fit the emotional content of the book. The graphic illustrates some scene from the topic of the project.

Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name. The graphic illustrates some scene from topic of the project.

Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name.

Does not include illustration, title, AND/OR author's name.

Illustrations

Illustrations were creative, colorful and were a good size.

Illustrations were colorful and were a good size.

Illustrations were colorful, but some were too large or too small.

Illustrations were messy.

Measurement & Format

Student accurately measured and folded the book jacket to the dimensions of a standard size book. Folds are straight as though done with a ruler.

Two portions of the book jacket were not measured/folded accurately. Folds are straight as though done with a ruler.

Two portions of the book jacket were not measured/folded accurately.

Most of the book jacket was not measured/folded accurately.

Grammar

There are no grammatical mistakes on the book jacket.

There is 1 grammatical mistake on the book jacket.

There are 2 grammatical mistakes on the book jacket.

There are more than 2 grammatical mistakes on the book jacket.

Spelling

There are no spelling errors on the book jacket. The author's name and the title are spelled correctly throughout!

There is 1  spelling errors on the book jacket.

There are 2  spelling errors on the book jacket.

There are more than 2 spelling errors.

Neatness and Effort

The book jacket has no distracting errors, corrections or erasures and is easily read. It appears the student spent a lot of effort getting things just right.

The book jacket has almost no distracting errors, corrections or erasures and is easily read. It appears the student worked hard on it.

The book jacket is fairly readable but the quality is not too good on some parts. It looks like the student ran out of time or didn't take care of it.

Very messy and hard to read. It looks like the student threw it together at the last minute without much care.

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