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5-Paragraph Essay Rubric 
5-Paragraph Essay Rubric
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of paragraph organization by writing a 5-paragraph essay utilizing the writing process of planning, organizing, writing, evaluating and revising. *Note: The first 5 criteria of this rubric have been duplicated from the the Steck-Vaughn GED Essay.
Rubric Code: S3964B
By aarogers
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: (none)

Powered by iRubric LS 2C - 5 Paragraph Essay
  Effective

Reader understands and easily follows the writer’s expression of ideas.

4 pts

Adequate

Reader understands
writer’s ideas.

3 pts

Marginal

Reader has difficulty identifying or following the writer’s ideas.

2 pts

Below Marginal

1 pts

Paragraph 1

Effective

Includes title, author, description of main characters, description of setting, and interesting thesis statement.
Adequate

Includes title, author, and description of either main character or setting, and thesis statement.
Marginal

Includes title, author, and list main character and setting, vauge or no thesis statement.
Below Marginal

Missing two or more of the required elements.
Paragraph 2

Effective

Establishes a clear and logical organization of the importance of the raven in the book, and gives three examples from the book.
Adequate

Uses an identifiable
organizational plan, and gives at least two examples from the book.
Marginal

Fails to organize ideas logically, and gives at least one example from the book.
Below Marginal

Contains no organization or examples.
Paragraph 3

Effective

Focused and developed with details.
Describes the fire bugs, their significance to the book, and the conflict or problem.
Adequate

Has focused but occasionally uneven development; incorporates some specific detail.
Marginal

Demonstrates little development; usually lacks details or examples or presents irrelevant information.
Below Marginal

Demonstrates no development; lacks examples or presents irrelevant information
Paragraph 4

Effective

Tells how problem is solved and gives specific details.
Adequate

Gives some information on how problem is solved, and incorporates some specific detail.
Marginal

Demonstrates little development; usually lacks details, and presents irrelevant information.
Below Marginal

Demonstrates no development or details.
Paragraph 5

Effective

Concludes findings of the book, including importance of Raven.
Tells how you felt and why with recommendations.
Adequate

Some finding and importance of Raven. Minimal response to feelings. Slight recommendation.
Marginal

Demonstarted little findings and importance of the Raven. Response to book or recommendation missing.
Below Marginal

Missing finding, Raven, feeling, and/or recommendations.
Word choice

Effective

Exhibits varied and precise word choice.
Adequate

Exhibits appropriate word choice.
Marginal

Exhibits little variety of word usage, words are redundant.
Below Marginal

Exhibits weak and/or
inappropriate words.
Spelling and Punctuation

Effective

No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.
Adequate

One to two grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.
Marginal

Four to six grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.
Below Marginal

More than six grammatical, spelling, or punctuational erros
Format

Effective

Paper follows all format quidelines.
1 inch margins
12 point times new Roman font.
5 paragraphs are indented.
Doubled spaced
Adequate

one to two format requirements missing
Marginal

Three format requirements missing
Below Marginal

Paper does not follow all format quielines.

Four or more elements missing.
Length

Effective

Paper is 5 paragraphs
Adequate

Paper is 4 paragraphs
Marginal

Paper is two paragraphs
Below Marginal

Paper is one or less paragraph.



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