iRubric: Personal Narrative Rubric

Very organized and sequential, uses transitions in writing, can follow the story easily and flows very smoothly.

Organized, uses some transitions in writing, is a little choppy and mostly easy to follow.

Somewhat organized, uses little transition between paragraphs, is very rough and cannot follow the story easily.

Not organized, events out of order and extremely hard to follow, is very rough and no use of transitions.

Good variety in sentence structure, correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling, and an excellent use of word choice and variety.

Good variety in sentence structure, few mistakes in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling, and has a great use of word choice and variety.

Somewhat same sentence structure, some noticeable mistakes in punctuation, capitalization or spelling that slightly puts off the story, and has a solid use of word choice and variety.

Simple sentence structure, major mistakes in punctuation, capitalization or spelling that completely throws off the story, and has little or no variety in word choice.