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Paragraph Writing

Paragraph Writing-5th Grade

Students wrote a paragraph on a given topic.

Rubric Code: LC233C

By fawnboyd

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8, 9-12

Paragraph Summary
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Topic Sentence 4 pts The paragraph must begin with a well-developed topic sentence.	Excellent Topic sentence establishes the focus and grabs the reader's attention in a well-developed sentence.	Good Topic sentence establishes the focus in a well-developed sentence.	Fair Topic sentence includes focus but is not well-developed.	Poor The paragraph does not contain a topic sentence.
Paragraph Body 4 pts The body of the paragraph supports the topic sentence with meaningful details and explanations.	Excellent The body of the paragraph supports the topic sentence with more than 3 meaningful details.	Good The body of the paragraph supports the topic sentence with 3 meaningful details.	Fair The body of the paragraph supports the topic, but gives less than 3 meaningful details.	Poor The paragraph does not support the topic with meaningful details.
Closing Sentence 4 pts The closing sentence recaps the topic sentence.	Excellent The closing sentence recaps the topic sentence and makes reference to the body.	Good The closing sentence recaps the topic sentence.	Fair The closing sentence does not recap the topic sentence at all.	Poor The paragraph does not contain a closing sentence.
Focuses on Topic 4 pts The paragraph must stay focused on main idea.	Excellent Presents a well-developed, clearly focused paragraph.	Good Presents a clearly focused paragraph.	Fair Presents a paragraph but the main focus may shift.	Poor Attempts to present a focused paragraph with little or no success.
Conventions and Style
Capitalization & punctuation 4 pts Capital letters, commas and periods are used according to grammar rules.	Excellent No errors in capitalization and punctuation.	Good 1-2 errors in capitalization and punctuation.	Fair 3-4 errors in capitalization and punctuation.	Poor 5 or more errors in capitalization and punctuation.
Spelling 4 pts Words are to be spelled correctly.	Excellent No spelling errors.	Good 1-3 spelling errors.	Fair 4-5 spelling errors.	Poor More than 5 spelling errors.