Rubric for Informative/Explanatory Speech
Topic: _______________________ Speaker: ____________________
Content – 4 – 3.5 3 – 2.5 2 – 1.5 1-0
STANDARDS
Exceeds Standard Meets Standard Works on Not meeting/
approaching barely
Standard meeting
Standard
INTRODUCTION Attention-getter grabs Attention-getter gets Attention-getter Attention
the audience, creates audience involved is present but getter isn’t
ATTENTION information hunger. (mentally or limited. The present. Topic
GETTER A clear explanation physically). explanation of statement
of topic leads Explanation of topic topic is late, isn’t present.
PURPOSE audience smoothly leads us into the weak or makes it
into the speech speech. harder for us to
follow you into
the speech
ORGANIZATION Organization of Used logical order to The speech There is no
complex ideas is deliver information. lacked a logical discernible
TRANSITIONS logical, coherent and Utilized basic order, utilized order, no
relevant which helps transitions and minimal transitions,
RELATIONSHIPS convey message organized ideas, transitions, and and the ideas,
clearly. Smooth concepts and only hints at concepts and
transitions were made information organized ideas, information
so that each new concepts, are
element builds on the information. unorganized
preceding to create
unified whole
Developed topic Developed topic by Topic needs Very few, if
DEVELOPMENT thoroughly by selecting significant more any, relevant
OF TOPIC selecting most and relevant facts, development. facts,
significant and definitions, details, Included definitions,
relevant facts, etc. appropriate to the minimal details, etc.
definitions, details, purpose of the speech significant and included in
quotations, relevant facts, speech
appropriate to definitions,
purpose. details, etc.
CONTENT You made your topic You used appropriate You used some Very few
interesting to word choices, appropriate word appropriate
LANGUAGE specified audience, vocabulary, and choices, word choices,
using appropriate examples. Detail and vocabulary, vocabulary,
word choices, word choice were examples. Need examples.
vocabulary, figurative appropriate to help to make Details and
language and level of audience. detail and word word choices
complexity. Detail choice not
and word choice and appropriate to appropriate to
examples were audience. audience.
appropriate to
audience
STYLE You established and You maintained a You struggle to You lack
maintained a formal formal style and maintain a formality in
style and relatively relatively objective formal and your tone.
objective tone while tone through most of relatively Your
attending to the your speech. objective tone. information is
norms of an You become too too
informational/ informal and subjective.
explanatory speech. subjective
several times.
CONCLUSION You provided a You concluded the Development of Little
concluding statement speech by adequately each main point development
that summarized the summarizing the is spotty. of main
main points, referred main points, points.
back to the mentioning a
introduction or previous anecdote, or
supplied a looking mentioning future
forward statement to research.
bring speech full
circle and left
audience with lasting
impression.
DELIVERY
Excellent Good Fair Needs
Improvement
Time Effectively and Less than 30 More than 30 Significantly failed
appropriately met seconds over/under seconds over/under to meet time limit
_____________ the time limit time limit time limit
Preparedness You appeared You seemed fairly Your presentation You lack
Composure well-prepared, comfortable, seemed to need confidence,
Polish practiced, practiced, and more practice to practice,
confident, confident make it polished preparedness,
comfortable, which and confident polish. It was
enhanced your obvious you were
credibility. not well prepared.
SOURCES _______
OUTLINE _______
