iRubric: Rubric for Writing Assignments

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Rubric for Writing Assignments Rubric Code: EX2466 By SSevert Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 9-12

Writing rubric
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Purpose of Writing	Poor Attempts to tell about the prompt and purpose of writing.	Fair Partially tells about the prompt and purpose of writing.	Good Adequately tells about the prompt and purpose of writing.	Excellent Clearly tells about the prompt and purpose of writing.
Paragraph development	Poor Contains little or no evidence of an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion. There is no evidence of topic sentences in each paragraph and no ideas that make sense.	Fair Attempts an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. A few paragraphs start with a topic sentence and ideas that follow don't always make sense.	Good Contains an apparent introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Most paragraphs start with topic sentences and ideas that follow the topic sentence and make sense.	Excellent Contains an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Each paragraph starts with a topic sentence and ideas that follow that topic sentence and make sense.
Descriptive language	Poor No evidence of use of different types of descriptive language, no attempt to vary vocabulary and sentence patterns.	Fair Very little use of different types of descriptive language, makes an attempt to vary vocabulary and sentence patterns.	Good Some use of different types of descriptive language, tries to vary vocabulary and sentence patterns.	Excellent Uses different types of descriptive language, varies vocabulary and sentence patterns.
Grammar, spelling, punctuation	Poor Contains many serious grammar errors, many errors in basic spelling words, capitalization and punctuation that make the writing very difficult to read and understand.	Fair Has many grammar errors, frequent errors in basic spelling words, capitalization and punctuation that make the writing hard to understand.	Good Uses grammar with a few errors, correct spelling of high-frequency words, a few errors in capitalization and punctuation.	Excellent Uses correct grammar, correct spelling of high-frequency words and few or no errors in capitalization and punctuation.