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Writing Realistic Fiction

While studying the elements of realistic fiction, students write a realistic fiction story that demonstrates their understanding of the stages of plot, characteristics of a story. and the writing process. 5.W.3 Write narrative to develop imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear sequence of events.

Rubric Code: QXXCCXC

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5

Writing a Realistic Narrative
	Excellent Exceeds standards 4 pts	Meets expectation Meets standards 3 pts	Fair Approaching the standard 2 pts	Poor Fails to meet standards 1 pts
Genre - Realistic Fiction	Excellent The story contains characters setting and plot that are very realistic	Meets expectation Mostly realistic (One or two elements that could not happen)	Fair Somewhat realistic (several elements that could not happen in real life.)	Poor Fantasy based
Story Structure	Excellent Planning is evident. There is a beginning, middle an ending that makes sense.	Meets expectation Well planned Gaps in the plot.	Fair Gaps in plot Lacks organization	Poor No sequence and many gaps in plot.
Word Choice	Excellent Many descriptive words.	Meets expectation Some descriptive words.	Fair Few descriptive words.	Poor No attempt to use descriptive words.
Dialogue	Excellent Dialogue is used effectively.	Meets expectation Too much dialogue	Fair Too little dialogue	Poor No dialogue is used.
Oranization	Excellent Creates and organizes a sequence of events with a clear beginning, middle, and end	Meets expectation Sequence of events is mostly logical and comprehensible.	Fair Key events are missing or out of order.	Poor Events are disorganized or arranged in an confusing way.
Dialogue	Excellent The story includes a sufficient amount of dialogue that is correctly written and easily read.	Meets expectation The story includes dialogue . Most dialogue is correctly punctuated and easy to read.	Fair The story does not include a sufficient amount of dialogue that is correctly written and easily read.	Poor The story does not include dialogue.
Conventions of Writing	Excellent The conventions of writing are used. (Correct spelling, punctuation, grammar.) Several developed paragraphs.	Meets expectation There are few errors.	Fair There are a few errors and no attempt to write in paragraphs.	Poor Many punctuation, spelling and grammar errors. No attempt to use paragraphs.