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5-Paragraph Essay Rubric 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric Students will demonstrate their knowledge of paragraph organization by writing a 5-paragraph essay utilizing the writing process of planning, organizing, writing, evaluating and revising. Rubric Code: VX2CC29 By vzullo Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: K-5

5-Paragraph Essay
	Effective Reader understands and easily follows the writer’s expression of ideas. 4 pts	Adequate Reader understands writer’s ideas. 3 pts	Fair Reader occasionally has difficulty understanding or following the writer’s ideas. 2 pts	Needs Improvement Reader has difficulty identifying or following the writer’s ideas. 1 pts
Response to Prompt	Effective Presents a clearly focused main idea that addresses the assigned topic.	Adequate Uses the assigned topic to establish a main idea. Thesis statement may be weak.	Fair Addresses the assigned topic, though the focus may shift.	Needs Improvement Attempts to address assigned topic but with little or no success in establishing a focus.
Development & Details	Effective Achieves a clear thesis with three specific and relevant details and reasons.	Adequate Achieves a clear thesis but is missing one or more specific details and reasons.	Fair Thesis is unclear and is missing two or more specific details and reasons.	Needs Improvement Thesis is unclear and none of the details or reasons are related to the main idea.
Conventions	Effective Essay shows consistent use of appropriate sentence structure and hardly any grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.	Adequate Essay shows appropriate use of sentence structure and grammar, spelling, and punctuation are correct most of the time.	Fair Essay shows inconsistent use of appropriate sentence structure and there are quite a few grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes.	Needs Improvement Essay shows no control of sentence structure and there are many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation mistakes.
Format	Effective Essay follows all format quidelines. Essay is in paragraph form. All 5 paragraphs are indented correctly.	Adequate Essay follows most of the format guidelines. At least 4 of the 5 paragraphs are indented correctly.	Fair Essay follows some of the format guidelines. At least 3 of the 5 paragraphs are indented correctly.	Needs Improvement Essay does not follow most of the format guidelines. Paragraphs are not indented correctly.
Oral Reading	Effective Great Fluently reads selection with 1-3 mistakes. Reads periods, exclamation marks, commas, etc. appropriately in the reading.	Adequate Good Reads selection fluently with 4-6 mistakes.Reads periods, exclamation marks, commas, etc. appropriately in the reading.	Fair Fair Rarely reads selection fluently. May stop at punctuation marks.	Needs Improvement Developing Reads selection at one pace. Struggles with word pronunciation and pace of the reading.

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