iRubric: Rubric for Descriptive Paragraph Writing (grades 6-8)

The topic sentence is the first sentence in the paragraph. It is a clear statement of the paragraph content.

The topic sentence gives little evidence of a relevant topic connecting to the other sentences.

There is no topic sentence presented in the paragraph.

Paragraph has good organization. The sentences and transitions were well structured. The Paragraph was easy to read.

Your paragraph was a bit confusing to read and had limited use of transitions. The events jump around.

Your paragraph was hard to read, the events were not organized, and make little sense.