Rubric for Assessing Storytelling

By:

Pande Ayu Cintya Ningrum

1312021107 / 5D

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ART
GANESHA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION
2015
Rubric for Assessing Storytelling

Skill

: Speaking

Type

: Storytelling

Grade

:X

Standard of Competency

: To express the simple work of

narrative text

Basic Competence

: To deliver a simple work of narrative

text in the form of fable

Theory
National Storytelling Association (1997), stated that storytelling is the interactive art of
using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the
listeners imagination. Assessing students speaking ability is also an important thing because as
the EFL students, English is not our Language. It makes us difficult while learning English. Most
students is not have a brave feeling to speak. That also makes speaking is an important thing to
assess. In storytelling, it is not just uses verbal communication but also non-verbal
communication to deliver the story from teller to audiences.
In telling a story, the storyteller should be concerned with five things. Those are as
follows: understand the story, voice mechanic, acting, duration and focus. The storyteller should
understand and remember it while telling in front of the audience. If they cannot understand, they
also cannot deliver it to the audiences. The second things is voice mechanic. The storyteller
should produce the sound with the appropriate volume and correct pronunciation to make the
audience listen clearly and understand the story. The third things is acting. Without acting the
audience will be feel bored while the storyteller telling the story. The fourth things is duration.
While telling the story, the storyteller also should managing the time well. If they telling the
story too fast, it will be hard to understand however if they telling the story too long, it will make
the audience bored. The last thing is focus. The storyteller should be concentrate and engaging

eye contact with the audience, if they cannot do that the audience also will be not concentrate
and focus listen the story.
Blue print
This assessment designed for students at grade X of Senior High School. The students
should be choose one story of fable that they like. Then they asked to tell that story in front of
their friends. While telling the story, the teller should be concerned with their acting, voice
mechanic and focus with the audience. The teller also should be understand the story before
telling it to the audiences. The duration of storyteller telling the story is around 5 until 7 minutes.
Dimension
Understand The
Story
Voice Mechanic

Indicators
- Uses no notes
- Speaks with confidence
- Speak with appropriate volume
- Clear pronunciation
- Vocal expression to clarify the meaning of the text
- Expressively uses non-verbal communication to clarify the
meaning of the text.
- Minimal 5 minutes
- Maximal 7 minutes
- Clear concentration
- Engaging eye contact with audience

Acting
Duration
Focus

Rubric:
ANALYTICAL RUBRIC
Criteria

Weight

Understand

The Story

Voice
Mechanic

Score
4
Knows the story

3
Knows the

2
Knows some

1
Does not know

well; has

story pretty

of the story;

story; reads

obviously

well; some

has not

from notes;

practiced telling

practice; may

practiced;

nervous

the story; uses

use notes;

relies on notes;

no notes; speaks

fairly confident not so

with confidence
Always speaks
with appropriate

Usually speaks

confident
May speak too

Speaks too

with

softly or too

softly or too

volume; correct

appropriate

rapidly;

rapidly; often

pronunciation;

volume;

mumbles

mumbling;

explains

correct

occasionally;

Incorrect

unfamiliar

pronunciation;

Incorrect

pronunciation;

words

does not

pronunciation

does not know

explain

of some words; what

unfamiliar

does not

unfamiliar

words

explain

words mean

unfamiliar
Acting

Duration

Focus

Always uses

Often uses

words
Sometimes

non-verbal

non-verbal

uses non-

communication

communication verbal

expressively
Story lasts 5 to

expressively
Story lasts less

communication
Story lasts less Story lasts less

7 minutes

than 5 or more

than 4 or more

than 3 or more

Storyteller

than 7 minutes
Storyteller

than 8 minutes
Storyteller

than 9 minutes
Storyteller do

concentrate

sometimes

rarely

not concentrate

telling the story

concentrate

concentrate

and do not

and engaging

telling the

telling the

engaging eye

eye contact with

story and

story and

contact with

all audiences

engaging eye

engaging eye

audiences

contact with

contact only

few audiences

with 1-3

Do not uses
non-verbal
communication

audiences
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Assessment

: (C1 x W1) + (C2 x W2) + (C3 x W3) + (C4 x W4) + (C5 x W5)
4
(4x3) + (4x3) + (4x2) + (4x1) + (4x1)
4

In storytelling, understanding the story and voice mechanic is the important thing because
if the story teller cannot understand the story and cannot produce correct pronunciation, they will
not success deliver the story to the audience. The second important thing is action. If the
storyteller do not produce the action while telling the story, the audience might be feel bored and
do not want to listen the story. The last but still important of assessing the storytelling are
duration and focus. When the storyteller telling the story, they should manage the time and focus
with the audience. If they are not managing the time well and do not focus with the audience,
their performance might be not success.

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