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Essential Skills:  Orthography

(character) Rubrics

-Accurately produce all characters in the target syllabary to match each sound

-All characters are written accurately with appropriate proportions, angles, stroke type, stroke direction and stroke order

(100%)

ES.OP.J1 & 2:    Orthography - Japanese Syllabary:  
                         Accurately produce characters in both Hiragana and Katakana Syllabaries.
eXceeds
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Not met
Emerging

-Accurately produces all the characters in the target syllabary to match each sound

-May contain less than 5% errors in stroke type, stroke direction or stroke order

-Minor inaccuracies in size, spacing, angles or proportion are not distracting or repeated

(n>95%)

-Produces at least 50% of the characters in the target syllabary to accurately match each sound

-Contains more than 5% errors in stroke type, stroke direction or stoke order

-Contains less than 50% errors in size, spacing, angles and proportion are distracting or repeated

(95%>n>50%)

-Produces at less than 50% of the characters in the target syllabary that accurately match each sound

-Contains more than 50% errors in stroke type, stroke direction or stoke order

-Contains more than 50% errors in size, spacing, angles and proportion are distracting or repeated

(n<50%)

eXceeds
Meets
Emerging
Not met

-Accurately produces introduced Kanji characters

-All Kanji characters are written accurately with appropriate stroke type, stroke direction and stroke order

-All Kanji characters are written accurately with appropriate proportions, angles and spacing

-Includes accurate furigana and okurigana where applicable

(100%)

-Accurately produces introduced Kanji characters

-All Kanji characters are written accurately with less than 5% errors appropriate stroke type, stroke direction and stroke order

-All Kanji characters are written accurately with appropriate proportions, angles and spacing, but may contain minor inaccuracies that are not distracting and do not affect equivalent/meaning

-Includes accurate furigana and okurigana where applicable

(n>95%)

-Produces at least 50% of introduced Kanji characters

-Written Kanji characters may contain more than 5% errors in appropriate stroke type, stroke direction and stroke order

-Proportions, angles and spacing may contain inaccuracies that are distracting and affect equivalent/meaning in less than 50% of the Kanji characters

-Includes inaccurate furigana and okurigana where applicable

(95%>n>50%)

-Produces at less than 50% of introduced Kanji characters

-Written Kanji characters may contain more than 5o% errors in appropriate stroke type, stroke direction and stroke order

-Proportions, angles and spacing may contain inaccuracies that are distracting and affect equivalent/meaning in more than 50% of the Kanji characters

-Omits or includes inaccurate furigana and okurigana where applicable

(n<50%)

ES.OP.J3 & 4:    Orthography - Japanese Blends:
                            Accurately produce blends in both Hiragana and Katakana
eXceeds
Meets
Emerging
Not met

-Accurately produce all blends in the target syllabary to match each sound

-All characters are written accurately with appropriate size, spacing, proportions and angles

(100%)

-Accurately produces all blends in the target syllabary to match each sound

-May contain less than 5% errors in size and spacing

-Minor inaccuracies in angles or proportion are not distracting or repeated

(n>95%)

-Produces at least 50% of the blends in the target syllabary to accurately match each sound

-Contains more than 5% errors in size or spacing

-Contains less than 50% errors in angles and proportion that are distracting or repeated

(95%>n>50%)

-Produces at less than 50% of the blends in the target syllabary that accurately match each sound

-Contains more than 50% errors in size or spacing

-Contains more than 50% errors in angles and proportion that are distracting or repeated

(n<50%)

ES.OP.J5:    Orthography - Japanese Kanji:
                    Accurately produce Kanji characters.
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