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iRubric: Six Traits Writing Rubric-Modified

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Six Traits Writing Rubric-Modified Six Traits Writing Rubric Six Traits Assessment keyed to Institute for Excellence in Writing concepts. Modified to only focus on Ideas, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. Rubric Code: TX4W599 By rowens7 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 6-8

6 Point 6 Traits
	DEVELOPING 1 pts	EMERGING 2 pts	PROFICIENT 3 pts	EFFECTIVE 4 pts	EXEMPLARY 5 pts
Ideas	DEVELOPING Loosely focused. Unsure what the writing is about. No hook.	EMERGING Generalities and filler outweigh quality detail. No hook.	PROFICIENT Quality detail outweighs generalities. Student makes an attempt at creating a hook.	EFFECTIVE Clear and focused thought; strong main idea. A good hook.	EXEMPLARY Clear, focused, compelling ideas. An excellent hook that entices the reader.
Sentence Fluency	DEVELOPING Awkward enough to make reader stumble, re-read often. Relies too much on one particular type of opener. No variety in types of sentences.	EMERGING Mechanical, but still readable; repetitive beginnings. A few different sentence openers. Little variety between sentence types.	PROFICIENT Some variety in length, structure, beginnings; few awkward moments. A few different sentence openers, attempted transitions. Makes an attempt at using a variety of sentence types.	EFFECTIVE Easy going flow, highly readable, purposeful sentence beginnings. Different sentence openers and some transitions. Uses a variety of types of sentences.	EXEMPLARY Skims, sings, dances along like a lively script; easy to read aloud. Many different sentence openers and excellent transitions. A wide variety of types of sentences and sentence length.
Conventions	DEVELOPING Noticeable, frequent, distracting errors; line-by-line editing required	EMERGING Noticeable, distracting errors that may affect meaning; errors even on basics	PROFICIENT Noticeable, but minor errors that do not obscure meaning; needs a good once-over	EFFECTIVE Minor errors that are easily overlooked; minor touchups	EXEMPLARY Only the pickiest editors will spot errors.