iRubric: First Grade Conventions Rubric

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First Grade Conventions Rubric First Grade Conventions Rubric This rubric is designed to assess the Grade 1 Language Conventions portion of a student's writing. This rubric does not include ideas and content, organization, or style. These topics will be addressed in an additional rubric. Rubric Code: ZX4CAX5 By palmerateacher Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: K-5

K-1 Language Conventions Rubric
	Exemplary 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Spelling	Exemplary Spelling is correct on word wall words and previous Spelling words and close on high-frequency words. (Example: said, cat, does)	Good Spelling is phonetic and readable to the untrained eye. (Example: sed, kat, duz)	Fair Spelling is partially phonetic, with many middle or vowel sounds missing. (Example: sd, ct, dz,	Poor Spelling is pre-phonetic and written in letter strings. (Example: rTWihrx)
Capital Letters	Exemplary Sentence beginnings and proper nouns are usually correctly capitalized. All upper and lower case letters are correctly used.	Good Upper and lower case letters are used correctly. Capital letters almost always mark the beginning of a sentence. "I" is always capitalized. Proper nouns are inconsistent.	Fair Use of upper and lower case is mostly correct. Some sentences may begin with capital letters. "I" is inconsistently capitalized.	Poor Use of upper and lower case letters appears to be random. (Example: wnT, HeR, fT, MY)
Ending Punctuation	Exemplary The writer correctly uses more than one type of ending punctuation and punctuation is always correct.	Good Ending punctuation is mostly, but not completely correct.	Fair The writing has inconsistent or sometimes incorrect ending punctuation.	Poor The writing has no ending punctuation at all or is completely incorrect.
Presentation/Handwriting	Exemplary Spacing between words is displayed. Spacing after a period is consistently correct. Letters are correctly formed and written work is neat.	Good Spacing between words is present, student uses the proper length of the line when writing.	Fair There is little or no spacing between words but letters are clearly formed. Improper use of lines (example: using only the middle of the lines, stopping short on a line).	Poor Formation of letters is irregular. Writing may be in scribbles or unreadable.
Grammar	Exemplary Correct use of sentences, contractions, singular/plural nouns, and possesive pronouns (girls' hats).	Good Use of contractions and singular/plural nouns is mostly correct. Proper sentence use.	Fair Attempted sentence use. Use of singular/plural nouns (dog/dogs) is sometimes correct. Inconsistent use of contractions.	Poor Words as a whole do not make sense or complete a thought.