iRubric: Personal Narrative Rubric

Clearly focused: effectively establishes and describes the setting and the people in the story.They have created a very good scary adventure in the haunted house.

Adequately focused: adequately establishes and describes the setting and the people in the story.They have created a good scary adventure in the haunted house.

Narrative is somewhat maintained and may have a minor drift in focus: inconsistently establishes a setting and describes the people in the story.They have created a scary story with some difficulty that is missing some details.

Narrative provides little or no focus: may be very brief, may have a major drift, and focus may be confusing or ambiguous. They have created a scary story with very limited details.

Writer elaborates on details, includes dialogue, concrete words, and sensory language effectively throughout the story.

Writer elaborates on details, includes dialogue, concrete words, and sensory language adequately throughout the story.

Writer provides uneven elaboration and expression with dialogue and details. Partial use of sensory and concrete language.

Writer provides minimal elaboration providing few or no details, dialogue, or description. There is little use of language and has little sense of purpose.