• Use acrostic card. Pieces of paper won't do the job.
• The star student's name is PRINTED vertically in large, outlined letters. The student's name must be correctly spelled. (Outline the letters of the name with a black, felt-tip pen.)
• Each letter of the child's name should begin a complimentary ADJECTIVE. Use our Adjective List, or a dictionary or thesaurus. Avoid "nice," and ordinary words. Use interesting words. DO NOT USE SLANG WORDS SUCH AS "COOL"!
• Do not use a phrase. Use one adjective.
• Check spelling. Misspelled words will prompt a "re-do."
• The acrostic should be neat, fully colored, and imaginative.  White backgrounds are only allowed when it is a wonderful and essential component of the acrostic design.
• Use pencil to BEGIN the project, but the final acrostic should not be left in pencil. Go over all pencil marks with a marker. Erase stray marks. Do this BEFORE coloring.
• Colors--felt-tip markers. "Highlighter colors" for backgrounds.  Remember to outline name letters with black marker or permanent black pen. No crayons.

Good Work Criteria:

• All directions followed and the acrostic is ON TIME, neat, accurate, colorful, and interesting.

Grading Rubric

• Graded as SUPERIOR, ACCEPTABLE or UN-ACCEPTABLE WORK
• SUPERIOR WORK: Directions followed. Work is outstanding and/or vocabulary and design. (I usually give tickets for superior work.)
• ACCEPTABLE WORK:  Directions followed.  The child's name is correctly spelled, the words chosen are complimentary adjectives and correctly spelled.
• UN-ACCEPTABLE WORK: (Misspellings, lack of color, use of slang words, messiness, careless work) Students will be required to re-do, or, will not be given full credit for their work.