iRubric: Personal Narrative Rubric/ CCSS Writing

Clearly focused: effectively establishes a setting and describes the people in the story.

Adequately focused: adequately establishes a setting and describes the people in the story.

Narrative is somewhat maintained and may have a minor drift in focus: inconsistently establishes a setting and describes the people in the story.

Narrative provides little or no focus: may be very brief, may have a major drift, and focus may be confusing or ambiguous.

Writer elaborates on details, includes dialogue, concrete words. Objects and substances that can be experienced through our senses are referred to as concrete words
( words we can touch, feel, smell, taste or hear), and sensory language effectively throughout the story. A variety of transitional words are used.

Writer elaborates on details, includes dialogue, concrete words, and sensory language adequately throughout the story.

Writer provides uneven elaboration and expression with dialogue and details. Partial use of sensory and concrete language.

Writer provides minimal elaboration providing few or no details, dialogue, or description. There is little use of language and has little sense of purpose.