Thoroughly addresses all areas:

• Includes many details
• A variety of textures are used and enhance the drawing
• A variety of patterns are used and enhance the drawing

Sample 1
The drawing includes a variety of textures in the house and trees, as well as many in the grass and ground cover. Patterns were included in the planting areas and house. Details such as the walk, road, hopscotch game, and the pile of stones beside the girl enhance the drawing.

Sample 2
The student included several details that add to the effectiveness of the drawing, such as the hand rail beside the steps, the sparsely placed trees, and the snow and ice melting on the house. The pattern on the house and the textures of the trees, snow, and mountains are effective due to the pencil techniques and shading.

Mostly addresses all areas:

• Includes many details
• Textures are used and enhance the drawing
• Patterns are used and enhance the drawing

Sample 1
The student effectively used a variety of textures in the grass, logs of the house, and trunks and branches of the trees. The details and patterns are not as abundant but do enhance the drawing.

Sample 2
The drawing includes many details but is lacking in variety. The textures and patterns enhance the drawing.

• Includes few details
• Includes few textures that may enhance the drawing
• Includes few patterns that may enhance the drawing

Sample 1
The drawing includes a few details in the fence by the walk, bark on the tree, and some patterns on the roof and windows. While the use of texture is limited, it does enhance the drawing in several places (tree bark, grass, and shading on the mountains and in the clouds). 

Sample 2
The drawing contains some details and patterns but limited texture.

• Includes very limited details
• Includes very limited textures that may not enhance the drawing
• Includes very limited patterns that may not enhance the drawing

Sample 1
The drawing includes limited details and textures. The pattern of dark and light in the house does not enhance the drawing.

Sample 2
The drawing is limited in texture with an attempt included in the darker area of the foreground. A few details and patterns were included in the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines of the house and the mat.

Needs Major Support

The drawing is off topic, incomplete, or does not adequately address the task.

Sample 1
The drawing does not reflect a landscape with a building.

Sample 2
The drawing is incomplete and does not address the task. It includes a rectangle that takes up the majority of the drawing, rather than a fully-formed building. The flowers and birds on the sides do not demonstrate a landscape.

Thoroughly addresses all areas:

• Fills the space in a unified composition
• The environment has a clear distinction between foreground and background
• The composition has a clear sense of depth

Sample 1
The drawing fills the space and presents a unified composition through the repetition of trees and the pencil techniques. A sense of depth is evidenced by the road trailing into the mountains, the size of objects, and the use of lighter and darker shading in the mountains.

Sample 2
The drawing demonstrates a unified composition with a sense of depth and a clear distinction between foreground and background.

Mostly addresses all areas:

• Fills most the space in a unified composition
• The environment has distinction between foreground and background
• The composition has a sense of depth

Sample 1
The use of shading in the drawing distinguishes the foreground from the background. The sense of depth is minimally evident.

Sample 2
The student communicated a sense of depth and distinction between foreground and background, especially with the stone path woven through the hills. The composition is unified, but only uses some of the drawing space.

• Fills most of the space
• The environment has minimal distinction between foreground and background
• The composition has a minimal sense of depth

Sample 1
The drawing fills most, but not all, of the space. There is some sense of depth in the road, but there is little distinction between foreground and background.

Sample 2
The drawing fills much of the space with large shaded areas, but a center area was left blank. There is some distinction between foreground and background. The house is dwarfed by large shaded areas that do not effectively represent a landscape.

• Fills some of the space
• The environment has no clear distinction between foreground and background
• The composition has no sense of depth

Sample 1
The student attempted to create a landscape with a house, but the drawing has little sense of depth, or distinction between foreground, and background. There is also a great deal of open space.

Sample 2
The drawing is very simple and does not demonstrate depth.

The drawing is off topic, incomplete, or does not adequately address the task.

Sample 1
The drawing includes three buildings. It has no sense of landscape, depth, or foreground and background.

Sample 2
The student drew a horizon line, but did not demonstrate a sense of depth or a distinction between foreground and background. There are pencil outlines throughout the space of the paper, but the space between the lines was left blank, causing the drawing to appear to be unfinished.