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First Grade Narrative Writing Rubric 
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Rubric Code: R2W8W2A
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Subject: English  
Type: Assignment  
Grade Levels: K-5

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First Grade
  Not Yet...😒

(Average)
Pre-Kindergarten

1 pts

Starting To...😊

(Approaching)
Kindergarten

2 pts

Yes! 😃

(Meet Expectation)
Grade 1

3 pts

Double Yes! 👌

(Proficient)
Grade 2

4 pts

OVERALL

(Structure)

Not Yet...😒

The writer told a story with pictures and some writing.
Starting To...😊

The writer told, drew, and wrote a whole story.
Yes! 😃

The writer wrote about when she did something.
Double Yes! 👌

The writer wrote about one time when he did something.
LEAD

(Structure)

Not Yet...😒

The writer started by drawing and saying something.
Starting To...😊

The writer had a page that showed what happened.
Yes! 😃

The writer tried to show a beginning for his story.
Double Yes! 👌

The writer thought about how to write a good beginning and chose a way to start her story.

She chose the action, talk, or setting that will make a good beginning.
TRANSITION

(Structure)

Not Yet...😒

The writer kept on working.
Starting To...😊

The writer put her pages in order.
Yes! 😃

The writer put her pages in order. She used words such as and, then, so.
Double Yes! 👌

The writer told the story in order by using words such as when, then, and after.
ENDING

(Development)

Not Yet...😒

The writer's story ended.
Starting To...😊

The writer had a page that showed what happened last in her story.
Yes! 😃

The writer found a way to end his story.
Double Yes! 👌

The writer showed the action, talk, that would make a good ending.
ORGANIZATION

(Development)

Not Yet...😒

On the writer's paper, there was a place for drawing and a place where she tried to write words.
Starting To...😊

The writer's story had a page for the beginning, a page for the middle, and as page for the ending.
Yes! 😃

The writer wrote her story across three or more pages
Double Yes! 👌

The writer wrote a lot of lines on the page and wrote a lot across the pages.
ELABORATION

(Development)

Not Yet...😒

The writer put more and then more on the page.
Starting To...😊

The writer's story indicated who was there, what they did, and how the characters felt.
Yes! 😃

The writer put the picture from his mind unto the page.

He had details in pictures and in words.
Double Yes! 👌

The writer tried to put her characters to life with details, talk, word and actions.
CRAFT

Craft(Language Convention)

Not Yet...😒

In the writer's story, she showed and told what happened.
Starting To...😊

The writer drew and wrote some details about what happened.
Yes! 😃

The writer used labels and words to give details.
Double Yes! 👌

The writer chose strong words that would help readers picture his story.
SPELLING

(Language Convention)

Not Yet...😒

The write could read his picture and some of his word.

The writer tried to make words.
Starting To...😊

The write could read her writing.
The writer wrote a letter for the sounds she heard.

The write used the word wall to help her spell
Yes! 😃

The write used all he knew about words and chunks of words (at, up, it, etc) to help him spell.

The write spelled all the word wall words right and used the word wall to spell other words correctly.
Double Yes! 👌

To spell a word, the writer used what she knew about spelling patterns (er, tion, ly etc.)

The writer spelled all of the word wall correctly and used the word wall to try and figure out how to spell other words
PUNCTUATION

(Language Convention)

Not Yet...😒

The writer put spaces between words.

The writer could write her name.
Starting To...😊

The writer put spaces between words.

The writer used lower case letters unless capitals were needed.

The write used capital letters to start every sentence.
Yes! 😃

The writer ended sentences with punctuation.

The writer used a capital letters for names.

The writer used commas in dates and lists.
Double Yes! 👌

The writer used quotation marks to show what character said.

When the writer used words such as can't and don't, he used the apostrophe.










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