iRubric: General Rubric for content writing

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General Rubric for content writing General 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric General rubric for a 5 paragraph organizational essay: utilizes the writing process of planning, organizing, writing, evaluating and revising. Rubric Code: Y7524X By msmetcalf Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: History Type: Writing Grade Levels: K-5

General Writing Rubric
	Advanced 2 pts	Proficient 1 pts	Basic 0.5 pts	Minimal 0 pts
Response to Prompt - Thesis Does the Author understand the task? Is their a clear purpose to the writing?	Advanced Presents a clearly focused main idea that addresses prompt. Writing has a clear purpose related to the prompt.	Proficient Uses the writing prompt to establish a main idea. Has some sort of purpose that is related to the prompt.	Basic Somewhat addresses the prompt but doesn't stay focused.	Minimal Attempts to address prompt but purpose for writing is unclear and unfocused.
Organization Does the essay appear to follow some sort of organization in presentation of ideas and information?	Advanced Establishes a clear and logical organization with supporting evidence, appropriate to genre	Proficient Uses an identifiable organizational plan, appropriate to genre	Basic Shows some evidence of an organizational plan, but may not match the genre.	Minimal Fails to organize ideas, or does not organize them in the genre they were assigned to.
Development & Details Does the author provide details and support to their thesis or main idea?	Advanced Uses specific and relevant details and examples that make sense and support their topic.	Proficient Uses some specific detail to support their writing or topic.	Basic Has a few details - repeats details, or lists them without really showing understanding.	Minimal lacks details or examples or presents irrelevant information.
Spelling and Punctuation How is the grammar of the essay?	Advanced No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Proficient One to two grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Basic Essay has significant sentence structure and grammatical errors that make piece difficult to read.	Minimal Piece is largely illegible.
Content knowledge Does the student show that they understand the material they are writing about in a meaningful way?	Advanced Student demonstrates strong understanding of the ideas, through the use of detail and tone.	Proficient Student demonstrates some understanding of the ideas, through the use of detail and tone.	Basic Student demonstrates a little understanding of the ideas, through the use of detail and tone.	Minimal Student shows no understanding of the ideas or content of the piece.