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Informational Essay 7th Grade 2

Informational Essay 7th Grade

Informational Essay for 7th grade

Rubric Code: FCW5C5

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Informational Essay
	Proficient 3 pts	Expanding 2 pts	Developing 1 pts
Introduction What is your topic? Who is your audience? What is your focus statement?	Proficient Includes a strong lead that gains the readers attention and contains a focus statement that is clear and easy to follow.	Expanding Includes a lead and a focus statement.	Developing Includes either a lead or a focus statement or contains both but the focus statement is missing parts.
Focus Statement Claim + key points from categories	Proficient The focus statement included a strong claim and 3 strong categories.	Expanding The focus statement is included with a claim and 2-3 categories.	Developing The focus statement is included but either the claim or focus statement is missing or there are less than 1-2 categories listed or no claim is written.
Topic sentences X 3 Are my topic sentences simple and general to tell the reader what the paragraph is about?	Proficient The topic sentences begin with transitions, includes the claim, and tells the purpose of the paragraph	Expanding The some topic sentences begin with transitions, include the claim, and tells the purpose of the paragraph.	Developing The topic sentences relate to the focus statement but do not include the transitions
Supporting points and details X 3 Did I give details, examples, evidence, facts?	Proficient Contains 3 pieces of supporting evidence in each paragraph to clearly support the topic sentence and claim	Expanding Contains 2 pieces of supporting evidence in each paragraph to clearly support the topic sentences and claim.	Developing Contains 1 piece of supporting evidence in each paragraph to support the topic sentence and claim or the supporting evidence does not relate to the topic sentence and claim
Conclusion Topic + Ideas related to the topic but not in the essay	Proficient Includes a transition, the importance of the topic, the 3 categories and the concluding statement	Expanding Includes 2 of the 4: transition, importance of the topic, 3 categories, and the concluding statement	Developing Includes only 1 of the 4: transition, importance of the topic, 3 categories, and the concluding statement
Sentence fragments and run-ons Did I write in complete sentences	Proficient There are few sentence fragments or run-on sentences found within the essay.	Expanding There are a some fragments and/or run-ons found within the essay.	Developing There are manyframents and/or run-ons found within the essay.
Capitalization and punctuation Did I capitalize all words at the beginning of a sentence or a proper noun? Did I end every sentence with the correct punctuation?	Proficient There are few to no capitalization or punctuation errors found within the essay.	Expanding There are a some capitalization and/or punctuation errors found within the essay.	Developing There are many capitalization and/or punctuation errors found within the essay.
Spelling Did I use a dictionary or the word wall to help me spell words I don't know correctly?	Proficient There are few or no spelling errors found within the essay.	Expanding There are a some spelling errors found within the essay.	Developing There are many spelling errors found within the essay which may cause confusion
Organization Did I follow the writing format for the informational essay? Did I write in paragraph form?	Proficient The essay follows the informational essay format with few errors in formatting.	Expanding The essay mostly follows the informational essay format with some errors in formatting.	Developing The essay barely follows the informational essay format with many errors in formatting.
Editing Did I edit my essay? Did I get my paper peer edited?	Proficient The essay was edited by the writer as well as by a peer as is evident by the peer editing form.	Expanding	Developing The essay was edited by either the writer or a peer as is evident by the peer editing form.
Title Did I include a title and have correct usage of capital letters?	Proficient There is a title listed at the top, center of the page, is underlined and has the correct usage of capital letters.	Expanding There is a title at the top of the page and is either underlined or has the correct usage of capital letters.	Developing There is a title somewhere on the page
Heading Did I include my name, date, and class number?	Proficient Name, date, and class number are located in the top right corner of the page.	Expanding 2 of the following are included somewhere on the paper: name, date, class number.	Developing 1 of the following is included somewhere on the paper: name, date, class number.

Keywords:

essay, informational, expository,

Subjects:

English

Types:

Writing

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