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General 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric General 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric General rubric for a 5 paragraph organizational essay: utilizes the writing process of planning, organizing, writing, evaluating and revising. Rubric Code: U3C62C By fmcgregor Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: History Type: Writing Grade Levels: (none)

5 Paragraph Essay
	Advanced Reader understands and easily follows the writer’s expression of ideas. 4 pts	Proficient Reader understands writer’s ideas. 3 pts	Basic Reader occasionally has difficulty understanding or following the writer’s ideas. 2 pts	Minimal Reader has difficulty identifying or following the writer’s ideas. 1 pts
Response to Prompt - Thesis Does the Author Develop a Thesis statement or main point to the essay. Is their a clear purpose to the writing?	Advanced Presents a clearly focused main idea that addresses prompt. Thesis is stated clearly and directly relates to the prompt.	Proficient Uses the writing prompt to establish a main idea. Has some sort of thesis that has a relation to the prompt.	Basic Addresses the prompt, though the Thesis and main point does not directly relate to the prompt... The focus may shift.	Minimal Attempts to address prompt but with little or no success in establishing a Thesis/main idea.
Organization Does the essay appear to follow some sort of organization in presentation of ideas and information?	Advanced Establishes a clear and logical organization with Supporting Evidence	Proficient Uses an identifiable organizational plan.	Basic Shows some evidence of an organizational plan.	Minimal Fails to organize ideas.
Development & Details Does the author provide details and support to their thesis or main idea?	Advanced Achieves coherent development with specific and relevant details and examples.	Proficient Has focused but occasionally uneven development; incorporates some specific detail.	Basic Has some development but lacks specific details; may be limited to a listing, repetitions, or generalizations.	Minimal Demonstrates little or no development; usually lacks details or examples or presents irrelevant information.
Spelling and Punctuation How is the grammar of the essay?	Advanced No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Proficient One to two grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. Author appears to have tried to eliminate grammatical errors but missed a few	Basic Three to four grammatical spelling, or punctuation errors. Essay has significant sentence structure and grammatical errors - proof read better next time.	Minimal Significant grammatical and sentence structural errors. Author should revisit the essay and proof read more vigorously.