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Grade 4 Journal Entry Grade 4 Journal Entry Rubric Code: F6XBW4 By maspringer Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: K-5

Journal Entry
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Understands task	Excellent Clearly addresses all parts of the writing task	Good Addresses all parts of the writing task.	Fair Addresses only parts of the writing task	Poor Addresses only one part of the writing task
Understands Purpose	Excellent Demonstrates a clear understanding of purpose	Good Demonstrates a general understanding of purpose	Fair Demonstrates little understanding of purpose	Poor Demonstrates no understanding of purpose
Organization	Excellent Maintains a consistent point of view, focus and organizational structure, including paragraphing when appropriate	Good Maintains a mostly consistent point of view, focus, and organizational structure, including paragraphing when appropriate.	Fair Maintains an inconsistent point of view, focus, and/or organizational structure	Poor Lacks a clear point of view, focus, and/or organizational structure.
Focus	Excellent Includes a clearly presented central idea with relevant facts, details, and/or explanations	Good Presents a central idea with mostly relevant facts, details, and/or explanations	Fair Suggests a central idea with limited facts, details, and/or explanations	Poor Lacks a central idea but may contain marginally related facts, details, and/or explanations.
Variety	Excellent Includes a large variety of sentence types: Simple, Compound, and Complex.	Good Includes a variety of sentence types: Simple, Compound, and Complex	Fair Includes little variety in sentence types: Simple, Compound, and Complex	Poor Includes no sentence variety.
Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation, Capitalization...	Excellent Contains few, if any, errors in the conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). These errors do not interfere with the reader's understanding of the writing.	Good Contains some errors in the conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). These errors do not interfere with the reader's understanding of the writing.	Fair Contains several errors in the conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). These errors may interfere with the reader's understanding of the writing.	Poor Contains serious errors in the conventions of the English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). These errors interfere with the reader's understanding of the writing.