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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. Note: The first 5 criteria of this rubric have been duplicated from the the Steck-Vaughn GED Essay. Rubric Code: Z38495* By rondaturcotte Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: (none)

LS 2C - 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	Marginal Reader has difficulty identifying or following the writer’s ideas. 2 pts	Below Marginal 1 pts
Paragraph 1	Effective Includes title, author, description of main characters, description of setting, and interesting thesis statement.	Adequate Includes title, author, and description of either main character or setting, and thesis statement.	Marginal Includes title, author, and list main character and setting, vauge or no thesis statement.	Below Marginal Missing two or more of the required elements.
Paragraph 2	Effective Establishes a clear and logical organization of the importance of the raven in the book, and gives three examples from the book.	Adequate Uses an identifiable organizational plan, and gives at least two examples from the book.	Marginal Fails to organize ideas logically, and gives at least one example from the book.	Below Marginal Contains no organization or examples.
Paragraph 3	Effective Focused and developed with details. Describes the fire bugs, their significance to the book, and the conflict or problem.	Adequate Has focused but occasionally uneven development; incorporates some specific detail.	Marginal Demonstrates little development; usually lacks details or examples or presents irrelevant information.	Below Marginal Demonstrates no development; lacks examples or presents irrelevant information
Paragraph 4	Effective Tells how problem is solved and gives specific details.	Adequate Gives some information on how problem is solved, and incorporates some specific detail.	Marginal Demonstrates little development; usually lacks details, and presents irrelevant information.	Below Marginal Demonstrates no development or details.
Paragraph 5	Effective Concludes findings of the book, including importance of Raven. Tells how you felt and why with recommendations.	Adequate Some finding and importance of Raven. Minimal response to feelings. Slight recommendation.	Marginal Demonstarted little findings and importance of the Raven. Response to book or recommendation missing.	Below Marginal Missing finding, Raven, feeling, and/or recommendations.
Word choice	Effective Exhibits varied and precise word choice.	Adequate Exhibits appropriate word choice.	Marginal Exhibits little variety of word usage, words are redundant.	Below Marginal Exhibits weak and/or inappropriate words.
Spelling and Punctuation	Effective No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Adequate One to two grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Marginal Four to six grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.	Below Marginal More than six grammatical, spelling, or punctuational erros
Format	Effective Paper follows all format quidelines. 1 inch margins 12 point times new Roman font. 5 paragraphs are indented. Doubled spaced	Adequate one to two format requirements missing	Marginal Three format requirements missing	Below Marginal Paper does not follow all format quielines. Four or more elements missing.
Length	Effective Paper is 5 paragraphs	Adequate Paper is 4 paragraphs	Marginal Paper is two paragraphs	Below Marginal Paper is one or less paragraph.

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English

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