iRubric: Historical Narrative Writing Grade 4 rubric

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Historical Narrative Writing Grade 4 Narrative Writing Rubric Grade 4 A Knight's Tale Rubric Code: F9CC63 By hokeefe Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: K-5

Narrative Writing
	Distinguished 4 pts	Proficient 3 pts	Developing 2 pts	In Progress 1 pts
Captures the Readers Interest	Distinguished Engages the reader with an interesting introduction that makes the reader connect with the story and the character.	Proficient Adequately engages the reader.	Developing Makes an attempt to engage the reader.	In Progress Needs to improve with trying to engage the reader or establish the context of the story.
Establishment of the plot/character	Distinguished Establishes a situation, plot, personal point of view, setting, conflict, and resolution; Develops complex characters.	Proficient Provides an adequately developed plot. Characters are adequately developed.	Developing Student has attempted to establish plot and chatacters.	In Progress The plot requires further development. Characters development in progress.
Organization	Distinguished Creates an organizational structure that balances and unifies all narrative aspects of the story.	Proficient Shows a clear attempt at organization that comes close to unifying the story.	Developing Lacks focus and a controlling idea; abrupt shifts in the plot may interfere with meaning.	In Progress Student is working towards organizing narrative story.
Style and Fluency	Distinguished The ideas are clearly and effectively developed; writing is fluent and polished with effective transitions.	Proficient Most ideas are clearly expressed; writing is generally fluent, with some use of transitions.	Developing Some ideas may not be clearly expressed; fluency and transitions may be needing improvement.	In Progress Many ideas are unclear; fluency and transitions are a good area to work on in the future.
Grammar, Spelling and Proofreading	Distinguished Demonstrates mastery of the rules of the English Language including punctuation, spelling, and grammar.	Proficient Makes good attempt to revise with only a few errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar.	Developing Efforts to revise are made but with many errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar remaining.	In Progress More effort needed with proofreading, with many punctuation, spelling, grammatical,errors.