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Personal Narrative

Students will write a true story from their life.

Rubric Code: FX4446B

By jfeuerbach

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5

Personal Narrative
	4 Highly Proficient (N/A)	3 Proficient (N/A)	2 Nearly Proficient (N/A)	1 Not Proficient (N/A)
Genre - Personal Narrative The student wrote a story about something that happened to them. 4pts.	4 The student wrote a detailed story about something that happened in their lives. 4pts.	3 The student wrote a story about something that happened in their lives. 3pts.	2 The student wrote a paragraph about something that happened to them. 2pts.	1 The story or paragraph was made up or not about something that happened to them. 1pt.
Introduction Opening sentences grab the reader's attention and introduce the topic. 8pts.	4 The introduction is a paragraph that grabs the reader's attention and introduces the topic. 8pts.	3 The introduction includes some sentences that grab the reader's attention and introduces the topic. 6pts.	2 The introduction includes a few sentences that either grabs the reader's attention or introduces the topic. 4pts.	1 The story just starts. There is no real attempt to grab the reader's attention or introduce the topic. 2pts.
Body Includes the main events of the personal narrative using sensory details to describe how things look, feel, sound, taste, and smell. 12pts.	4 The body tells a story about your life. Many sensory details are used to describe how things look, feel, sound, taste, and smell. 12pts.	3 The body tells a story about your life. Some sensory details are used to describe how things look, feel, sound, taste, and smell. 10pts.	2 The body tells a story about your life. A few sensory details are used to describe how things look, feel, sound, taste, and smell. 8pts.	1 The body of the story tells rather than shows what happened. Very few, if any, sensory details used. 6pts.
Conclusion Wraps up your personal narrative with a reflection on what you learned from this experience. 8pts.	4 The concluding paragraph wraps up the story and describes what you've learned from the experience or how it has changed your life. It ties into the introduction. 8pts.	3 The concluding sentences wrap up the story by describing what you've learned from the experience or how it has changed your life. It ties in with the introduction. 6pts.	2 The concluding sentences attempt to wrap up the story by relating to the introduction or describing how the experience has changed your life. 4pts.	1 There is no conclusion. The story just stops with no attempt to bring it to a close. 2pts.
Conventions Your personal narrative has the proper sentence structure with the correct capitalization, punctuation and spelling. 8pts.	4 Most sentences in your personal narrative are complete, with the correct capitalization and punctuation. There are no spelling errors. 8pts.	3 Many sentences in your personal narrative are complete, with the correct capitalization and punctuation. There are a few spelling errors. 6pts.	2 Your personal narrative is unclear at times because some sentences contain run-on sentences, fragments or incorrect capitalization and punctuation. There are some spelling errors. 4pts.	1 Your personal narrative is difficult to understand due to the number of errors in sentence structure, capitalization & punctuation. There are many spelling errors. 2pts.

Keywords:

Personal Narrative

Subjects:

English

Types:

Writing

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