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iRubric: Mrs. Ferlisi's Basic Paragraph Rubric

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Mrs. Ferlisi's Basic Paragraph Rubric Mrs. Ferlisi's Basic Paragraph Rubric Thankful Paragraph scoring rubric. Rubric Code: BA3A34 By wbutler13 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: (none)

Criteria for Paragraph
	Beginning Did you really try? 1 pts	Developing You can do better than this! 2 pts	Achieving Way to go! 3 pts	Excelling You are awesome! 4 pts
Topic Sentence	Beginning The topic sentence does not introduce the topic.	Developing Topic sentence introduces the topic, but does not give accurate and complete information.	Achieving Topic sentence creates interest and is fairly well developed.	Excelling Very well developed topic sentence. It engages the reader and creates interest.
Details/Examples	Beginning Details/examples are either wrong or missing.	Developing Details/examples, are very simple.	Achieving Details/examples are clear and specific, but there are not enough of them.	Excelling There are several details/examples in the paragraph that are clear and specific.
Organization/Structure	Beginning Unorganized. Transitions are not present. Messy and rushed.	Developing Organization is clear. Some transitions are present. Simple.	Achieving Logical progression of details. Good use of transition words (next, then, finallly)throughout the paragraph. There is a clear beginning, middle, and end.	Excelling Logical progression of details with a clear beginnning, middle and end. The transitions are appropriate and used very effectively.
Style	Beginning Writing is confusing and hard to follow. Contains fragments and/or run-on sentences. The word choice is very simple.	Developing Writing is clear, but sentences are simple.	Achieving Writing is clear and sentences have varied structure.	Excelling Writing is smooth, skillfull, and coherent. Sentences are strong and expressive with varied structure.
Mechanics	Beginning Distracting and major errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.	Developing A few errors in punctuation, grammar, spelling, and capitalization distract from the meaning and of the paragraph.	Achieving A few minor errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar, or capitalization, but they do not destract from the overall meaning of the paragraph.	Excelling No errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar, or capitalization.
Final Score & Comments