iRubric: Fact/ Opinion writing piece rubric

- Writes 1 -3 incomplete sentences about opinion
- Topic not established
- Does not includes a reason
- Draws a picture and/or writes 1 sentence on-topic

- Writes 2 or 3 possibly incomplete sentences about opinion
- Topic sentence may be unclear or not included
- Opinion may be unclear
- Reasons are vague or may not support opinion
- Closure may be unclear or not included

- Writes 3 or more complete sentences about opinion
- Provides a topic sentence
-States an opinion
- Supplies a relevant reason that supports their opinion clearly
-Provides some sense of closure

- Writes 4 or more complete sentences about opinion
- Provides a clear topic sentence
- States opinion
- Supplies at least 2 reasons that support their opinion clearly
-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/spacing is neat
- Complete sentences
- Correctly uses singular/plural nouns with matching verbs
- Uses verbs tenses correctly
- Correct end punctuation
- Capitalizes appropriately
- Correctly applies most contractions
- Spells most 3-4 letter short vowel words and grade-level-appropriate sight words correctly

- Meets all expectations in "Meets Proficiency"
- Uses a variety of simple and compound sentences
- Title capitalized correctly
- Uses commas correctly
- Applies second grade spelling patterns consistently and logically