The document provides a rubric for evaluating writing with criteria in several areas:
1) Sentence beginnings are crafted skillfully to capture interest for excellent, somewhat for good, and begin the same way for fair or needs improvement.
2) Sentences show exceptional variety and complexity for excellent, are skillfully constructed for good, and generally complete but lack variety for fair or have errors for needs improvement.
3) Mechanics like capitalization, punctuation, and spelling are exceptional for excellent and consistently correct for good but have some errors for fair or needs improvement.
The document provides a rubric for evaluating writing with criteria in several areas:
1) Sentence beginnings are crafted skillfully to capture interest for excellent, somewhat for good, and begin the same way for fair or needs improvement.
2) Sentences show exceptional variety and complexity for excellent, are skillfully constructed for good, and generally complete but lack variety for fair or have errors for needs improvement.
3) Mechanics like capitalization, punctuation, and spelling are exceptional for excellent and consistently correct for good but have some errors for fair or needs improvement.
The document provides a rubric for evaluating writing with criteria in several areas:
1) Sentence beginnings are crafted skillfully to capture interest for excellent, somewhat for good, and begin the same way for fair or needs improvement.
2) Sentences show exceptional variety and complexity for excellent, are skillfully constructed for good, and generally complete but lack variety for fair or have errors for needs improvement.
3) Mechanics like capitalization, punctuation, and spelling are exceptional for excellent and consistently correct for good but have some errors for fair or needs improvement.
Beginnings The writing has: sentences that The writing has: The writing has: The writing has: are crafted skillfully and show an sentences that are crafted sentences where two sentences sentences where two sentences or more Sentences have exceptional awareness of sentence well with some awareness of begin the same way. in more than one paragraph begin the unique beginnings. beginnings that capture interest unique beginnings. same way. of the audience.
Sentence Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement
Variation The writing has: The writing has: The writing has: The writing has: and sentences that show exceptional sentences that are skillfully sentences that are generally sentence formation errors and/or a use of sentence variety and constructed with appropriate complete with sufficient variety lack of sentence variety. Formation complexity of structure. variety in length and in length and structure. structure. Length and Structure
Correct Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement
CUPS The writing has: The writing has: The writing has: The writing has: some errors in exceptional capitalization, word consistently correct generally correct capitalization, capitalization,word usage, Correct usage, punctuation including capitalization, word usage, word usage, punctuation including punctuation including indention of conventions, indention of paragraphs, and punctuation including indention of paragraphs , and paragraphs, and spelling. capitalization, precise spelling. indention of paragraphs, and precise spelling. usage, precise spelling. punctuation, and spelling. Word Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement choice The writing has: The writing has: The writing has generally varied The writing has: sentences that show exceptionally sentences that show and descriptive word choice that some general and repetitive words Descriptive and precise, specific, descriptive and consistently appropriate word are appropriate for the image that may be inappropriate or varied word choice vivid word choice including choices that are generally being described. ineffective to the image or activity alliterations or other literary precise, varied, and being described. devices. descriptive.
Easy to Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement
follow and The writing has: The writing has: The writing has dialogue that is The writing has dialogue that is understand dialogue that is consistently easy dialogue that is generally somewhat easy to follow and somewhat difficult to follow and to follow and understand between easy to follow and understand between individuals understand between individuals yet two individual participants. understandable. yet has errors that interfere has errors that interfere with with understanding. understanding.