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Descriptive Writing Rubric Descriptive Writing Rubric Students will write a short response to the writing prompt Christmas is... They will have a topic, details, and concluding sentences. They will use adjectives that describe Christmas. Grades will be based on their initial attempts, graphic organizer, and final editing. Rubric Code: S9W4WW By pawsox24 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: K-5

Descriptive Writing- Christmas
	Fantastic! 4 pts	Great Job! 3 pts	Almost there! 2 pts	Keep working with me! 1 pts
Capitalization & Punctuation	Fantastic! The essay is free of capitalization & punctuation errors.	Great Job! The essay has 1 or 2 capitalization & punctuation errors and needed minimal support.	Almost there! The essay has 3 or more capitalization & punctuation errors, and needed a great deal of support.	Keep working with me! The essay had multiple capitalization and punctuation errors and needed full prompting.
Main Idea & Details	Fantastic! The paragraph contains a main idea and two related details.	Great Job! The paragraph contains a main idea and some realted details.	Almost there! The paragraph contains a main idea that is not clear and some related details.	Keep working with me! The paragraph does not contain a clear main idea or related details.
Grammar	Fantastic! The essay contains proper use of Subject/Verb Agreement and Verb Tense Agreement	Great Job! The essay contains 1 or two errors in use of the Subject/Verb Agreement and Verb Tense Agreement	Almost there! The essay contains 3 errors in use of Subject/Verb Agreement and Verb Tense Agreement	Keep working with me! The essay contains more than 3 errors in the use of Subject/Verb Agreement and Verb Tense Agreement.
Spelling	Fantastic! The essay is free of spelling errors.	Great Job! The essay has 1 or 2 spelling errors.	Almost there! The essay has 3 or more spelling errors.	Keep working with me! The essay has 4 or more spelling errors.
Topic and Concluding Senteces	Fantastic! The essay has a clearly stated concluding sentence that goes along with the main idea of the piece.	Great Job! The essay has a stated concluding sentences that reflects the main idea of the piece.	Almost there! The essay has a concluding statement but it does not follow the main idea of the paragraph.	Keep working with me! The essay has no concluding sentence in the paragraph.
Picture	Fantastic! Picture used is rich in detail and color; helps add to presentation.	Great Job! Picture has some detail and adds little to presentation.	Almost there! Little or no detail; does not add anything to presentation.	Keep working with me! There is no picture to this essay.