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iRubric: Topic Sentences rubric

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Topic Sentences Occasion/Position statements Power (Number) statements And, But, and Or statements Action Verb Statements Compare/Contrast statements Rubric Code: H524X By katlsg Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: (none)

Topic Sentences Student assessment
	Poor Total Points: 1 pts	Fair Total Points: 2 pts	Good Total Points: 3 pts	Excellent Total Score: 4 pts
Occassion/position statement Uses starter, number, conjunction, verbs, and/ compare or contrast words	Poor lacking starter word	Fair Incorrect selection of starter word for the purpose of the topic sentence.	Good Chooses correct statement words but does not organize sentence in correct order.	Excellent Correct selection of statement words and proper sentence structure.
Power (number) statement	Poor Lacking number word	Fair Incorrect selection of number word for the purpose of the topic sentence.	Good Chooses correct statement words but does not organize sentence in correct order.	Excellent Correct selection of statement words and proper sentence structure.
And, But, Or statement	Poor Lacking conjuction	Fair Incorrect selection of conjuction word for the purpose of the topic sentence.	Good Chooses correct conjuction word, but does not organize sentence in correct order.	Excellent Correct selection of conjuction word and proper sentence structure.
Action Verb statement	Poor Lacking an action verb	Fair Incorrect selection of action verb for the purpose of the topic sentence.	Good Chooses correct action verb, but does not organize sentence in correct order.	Excellent Correct selection of action verb and proper sentence structure.
Compare/Contrast statement	Poor Lacking a compare/contrast word	Fair Incorrect selection of for the compare/contrast word purpose of the topic sentence.	Good Chooses correct , but does compare/contrast word not organize sentence in correct order.	Excellent Correct selection of and proper compare/contrast word sentence structure.
Leads Where or When + What's Happening	Poor Contains no leading sentence	Fair Provides a background sentence with few errors but does not places it before the topic sentence.	Good Provides a background sentence with few errors and places it before the topic sentence.	Excellent Provides an accurately written background sentence and places it before the topic sentence.
Conventions Capitalization punctuation	Poor No use of either capitalization or punctuation	Fair Capitalization or punctuation is improperly applied	Good 75% of capialization and punctuation is used	Excellent 100 % Correct use of capitalization and puncutation