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Personal Narrative 
Personal Narrative
Write a Personal Narrative Essay about an important event from your life. Describe your memorable event in sequential order. Include reactions in your personal narrative such dialogue, emotions, and sensory details. Include a reflection in your essay on what you learned from this experience. Your personal narrative should be at least two paragraphs essay with a hook sentence and a conclusion.
Rubric Code: TX6346W
By mtracy023
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: K-5

Powered by iRubric Personal Narrative
  Below Expectations

1 pts

Slightly below expectations

25 pts

Meets Expectations

50 pts

Genre
50 pts

Wrote a personal narrative about an important event in your life. Wrote in first person (I, me, we, us) to tell the reader your story.
Below Expectations

Student did not write about an important event in your life and did not use first person point of view.
Slightly below expectations

Writing is are missing either an important part of the life event or did not write in first person point of view (I, me, we, us).
Meets Expectations

Personal narrative is about an important event and written in first person using I, me, we, or us.
Elements
  Below Expectations

1 pts

Slightly Below

3 pts

Meets Expecations

5 pts

Chronological Order
5 pts

Your personal narrative is written in chronological order of the event(s) and when are where it took place.
Below Expectations

Personal narrative is not in chronological order (what happened first, second, third, and last)
Slightly Below

Personal narrative is incomplete. Used chronological order inconsistently in essay.
Meets Expecations

Personal narrative is in chronological order telling what happened first, second, third, and last.
Sensory details
5 pts

At least 4 sensory details are included in the personal narrative (sounds, sights, smells, texture, tastes)
Below Expectations

No sensory details were used.
Slightly Below

Less than 1-3 sensory details were used.
Meets Expecations

4-5 sensory details were included.
Reactions
5 pts

Essay included dialogue and actions that you or other people did in your personal narrative.
Below Expectations

Personal narrative does not include any dialogue and actions to give the reader more details.
Slightly Below

Personal narrative has a little bit of partial dialogue or action.
Meets Expecations

Included several examples of dialogue and actions to give the reader more details.
Reflection
5 pts

Personal narrative with a reflection on what you learned from this experience.
Below Expectations

Personal narrative does not contain a reflection telling the reader what you learned from this experience.
Slightly Below

Personal narrative contains a reflection that is unclear about what you learned from this experience.
Meets Expecations

Personal narrative contains a clear reflection telling the reader what you learned from this experience.
Format
  Below Expectations

1 pts

Slightly Below

7 pts

Meets Expectations

15 pts

Prewriting
15 pts

Graphic organizer is completed showing extensive planning.
Below Expectations

Graphic organizer is less than 75% complete.
Slightly Below

Graphic organizer is mostly complete with 1-2 areas not completed.
Meets Expectations

Graphic organizer is complete.
Editing
15 pts

Your personal essay has proper sentence structure. Your essay contains complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation and evidence of editing from the first draft
Below Expectations

Essay contains sentence fragments and mostly incorrect capitalization and punctuation with no changes from first draft.
Slightly Below

Essay contains some sentence fragments or incorrect capitalization and punctuation and only has two to three changes made from first draft.
Meets Expectations

All/almost all sentences are complete sentences and each sentence has the correct capitalization and punctuation. More than 4 changes made from first draft.



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