iRubric: Common Core 1st Grade Informative/Explanatory Writing Rubric

With guidance and support from adults:

- Writes 1 -3 incomplete sentences about a topic
- Topic not established
- Uses unclear facts
- Draws a picture and/or writes 1 sentence on-topic

With guidance and support from adults:

- Writes 2 or 3 possibly incomplete sentences about topic
- Topic sentence may be unclear or not included
- Uses 1-2 facts that may be unclear
- Closure may be unclear or not included

With guidance and support from adults:

- Writes 3 or more complete sentences about topic
- Provides a topic sentence
- Supplies at least 3 facts
-Provides some sense of closure

With guidance and support from adults:

- Writes 4 or more complete sentences about topic
- Provides a clear topic sentence
- Supplies at least 4 facts
-Provides clear and appropriate closure

- lettering may be illegible
- Uppercase letters are random within words
- Punctuation is not evident
- Many words are not spelled phonetically

- print is legible but not neat
- appropriate spacing not included between words
- Contains a few incomplete sentences
- Incorrect use of singular and plural nouns
- Begins to use end punctuation
- Begins to use capitalization appropriately
- Writes phonetically spelled words

- print is neat and legible
-spacing is appropriate
- Uses complete sentences and/or compound sentences
- Correctly uses singular and/or plural nouns with matching verbs
- Uses verbs to convey a sense of past, present and future
- Uses correct end punctuation
- Capitalizes appropriately
- Correctly uses contractions
- Spells most 3-4 letter short vowel words and grade-level-appropriate sight words correctly

- prints is neat and legible
- spacing is appropriate
- Meets all expectations as set forth in "Meets Proficiency"
- Uses a variety of simple and compound sentences
- Correctly capitalized the title of the piece
- Uses commas correctly
- Applies first grade spelling patterns consistently and logically