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iRubric: Rubric for Writing Performance Levels

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Rubric for Writing Performance Levels This rubric can apply to paragraphs and to essays. Exceptional is high A range, excellent is lower A range, Good is B range, Fair is C-D range, and Poor is D-F range. Rubric Code: V46CB5 By mchs21C Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 9-12

Writing Performance
	Exceptional 5 pts	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Author's Purpose	Exceptional Consistently pursues a strong central purpose across a complex range of ideas, skillfully engages the reader, and shows exceptional insight into the subject	Excellent Consistently pursues a central purpose, holds the interest of the reader, and shows insight into the subject	Good Shows a consistent purpose, communicates to the reader, and connects to the writer's knowledge of the subject	Fair Shows a purpose but may be inconsistent in communicating to the reader or connecting to the writer's knowledge of the subject	Poor Is too brief to communicate author's purpose to the reader
Ideas and Development	Exceptional Includes main ideas that are developed comprehensively and are supported with a variety of logical reasons and detailed examples	Excellent Includes main ideas that are developed and are supported with a variety of reasons and examples	Good Includes main ideas that are somewhat developed, and somewhat supported by reasons and examples	Fair Includes main ideas that are partially developed and supported by partial reasons and examples	Poor Does not include development or support for the main ideas
Organization	Exceptional Is skillfully organized	Excellent Is effectively organized	Good Is somewhat organized	Fair Is barely organized	Poor Is not organized
Style/Voice	Exceptional Shows distinctive style through skillful and expressive use of vocabulary, phrasing, and sentence structure	Excellent Shows emerging style through the effective use of vocabulary, phrasing, and sentence structure	Good Shows suitable vocabulary, phrasing, and sentence structure	Fair Shows basic vocabulary, phrasing, and sentence structure	Poor Shows imprecise use of vocabulary, phrasing, and sentence structure
Mechanics	Exceptional Demonstrates essentially error-free control of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling	Excellent Demonstrates mostly error-free control of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling	Good Demonstrates some errors of in the use of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling	Fair Includes frequent errors in the use of grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling	Poor Includes many-many errors in the use of grammar, capitalization, and spelling