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Unsatisfactory
1 pts
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Needs Improvement
2 pts
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Satisfactory
3 pts
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Excellent
4 pts
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Topic Sentence
The paragraph must begin with a topic sentence that presents a single idea in a concise and clear way.
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Unsatisfactory
The paragraph does not contain a topic sentence.
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Needs Improvement
Topic sentence contains more than one idea and/or the main idea is not easy to understand. Or the topic sentence is some place other than the beginning of the paragraph.
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Satisfactory
Topic sentence contains only one idea but the main idea is not easy to understand.
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Excellent
Topic sentence has one idea and the main idea is easy to understand.
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Paragraph Body
The body of the paragraph supports the topic sentence with meaningful details.
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Unsatisfactory
The paragraph does not contain a body of at least three detail sentences.
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Needs Improvement
The body of the paragraph does not support the topic.
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Satisfactory
The body of the paragraph supports the topic sentence but also introduces a new idea that is unrelated.
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Excellent
The body of the paragraph supports the topic sentence with meaningful details.
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Concluding Sentence
The paragraph ends with a concluding sentence that summarizes the topic sentence and the body.
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Unsatisfactory
The paragraph does not contain a concluding sentence.
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Needs Improvement
The concluding sentence does not recap the topic sentence.
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Satisfactory
The concluding sentence recaps the topic sentence, but not the body of the paragraph.
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Excellent
The concluding sentence recaps the topic sentence and the details in the paragraph body.
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Punctuation and capitalization
Capital letters, commas and periods are used according to grammar rules.
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Unsatisfactory
Capital letters, commas and periods are used with five or more errors.
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Needs Improvement
Capital letters, commas and periods and used correctly with less than five errors.
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Satisfactory
Capital letters, commas and periods and used correctly with less than two errors.
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Excellent
Capital letters, commas and periods and used correctly 100% of the time.
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