iRubric: Grade 1 Language Conventions Rubric

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Grade 1 Language Conventions Rubric Grade 1 Language Conventions Rubric This rubric is designed to assess the Grade 1 Language Conventions portion of a student's writing. This rubric does not include ideas and content, organization, or style. These topics will be addressed in an additional rubric. Rubric Code: U73575 By kqshorey Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: K-5

K-1 Language Conventions Rubric
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Exemplary 4 pts
Spelling	Poor Spelling is pre-phonetic and written in letter strings. (Example: rTWihrx)	Fair Spelling is partially phonetic, with many middle or vowel sounds missing. (Example: sd, ct, dz)	Good Spelling is phonetic and readable to the untrained eye. (Example: sed, kat, duz)	Exemplary Spelling is correct on word wall words and previous Spelling words and close on high-frequency words. (Example: said, cat, does)
Capital Letters	Poor Use of upper and lower case letters appears to be random. (Example: wnT, HeR, fT, MY)	Fair Use of upper and lower case is mostly correct. Some sentences may begin with capital letters. "I" is inconsistently capitalized.	Good Upper and lower case letters are used correctly. Capital letters almost always mark the beginning of a sentence. "I" is always capitalized. Proper nouns are inconsistent.	Exemplary Sentence beginnings and proper nouns are usually correctly capitalized. All upper and lower case letters are correctly used.
Ending Punctuation	Poor The writing has no ending punctuation at all or is completely incorrect.	Fair The writing has inconsistent or sometimes incorrect ending punctuation.	Good Ending punctuation is mostly, but not completely correct.	Exemplary The writer correctly uses more than one type of ending punctuation and punctuation is always correct.
Presentation/Handwriting	Poor Formation of letters is irregular. Writing may be in scribbles or unreadable.	Fair There is little or no spacing between words but letters are clearly formed. Improper use of lines (example: using only the middle of the lines, stopping short on a line).	Good Spacing between words is present, student uses the proper length of the line when writing.	Exemplary Spacing between words is displayed. Spacing after a period is consistently correct. Letters are correctly formed and written work is neat.
Grammar	Poor Words as a whole do not make sense or complete a thought.	Fair Attempted sentence use. Use of singular/plural nouns (dog/dogs) is sometimes correct. Inconsistent use of contractions.	Good Use of contractions and singular/plural nouns is mostly correct. Proper sentence use.	Exemplary Correct use of sentences, contractions, singular/plural nouns, and possesive pronouns (girls' hats).