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2-Paragraph Essay Rubric

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of paragraph organization by writing a 3/5paragraph essay utilizing the writing process of planning,organizing,writing,evaluating and revising.

Rubric Code: S25X5B5

By CDBetterson03

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5

Paragraph Writing Rubric
	Excellent Reader understands and easily follows the writer’s expression of ideas. 5 pts	Good Reader understands<BR> writer’s ideas. 4 pts	Fair Reader occasionally has<BR> difficulty understanding<BR> or following the writer’s ideas. 3 pts	Poor Reader has difficulty identifying or following the writer’s ideas. 1 pts
Response to Prompt	Excellent Presents a clearly focused main idea that addresses assigned topic.	Good Uses the assigned topic to establish a main idea. Thesis statement may be weak.	Fair Addresses the assigned topic, though the focus may shift.	Poor Attempts to address assigned topic but with little or no success in establishing a focus.
Development & Details	Excellent Achieves coherent development with many specific and relevant details and examples	Good Has focused but occasionally uneven development; incorporates some specific details and examples	Fair Has some development but lacks specific details; shows too many, repetitative phrases or generalizations.	Poor Demonstrates little development; usually lacks details or examples or presents irrelevant information.
Conventions of English	Excellent Essay shows consistent use of appropriate sentence structure and the conventions of English.	Good Essay shows appropriate use of sentence structure and the conventions of English almost all of the time.	Fair May demonstrate inconsistent use of appropriate sentence structure and the conventions of English.	Poor May exhibit minimal use of appropriate sentence structure and the conventions of English.
Word Choice	Excellent Exhibits varied and precise word choice.	Good Exhibits appropriate word choice.	Fair Exhibits a narrow range of word choice, often including inappropriate selections.	Poor Exhibits little variety of word usage, words are redundant.
Spelling and Punctuation	Excellent No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Good One to two grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Fair Three to four grammatical spelling, or punctuation errors.	Poor Four to six grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.
Style	Excellent Essay has an interesting introductory statement that clearly states the focus, and an interesting conclusion that restates the main ideas.	Good Essay has an introductory statement that states the focus, and a conclusion that restates the main ideas.	Fair Introductory statement is unclear or does not state the main ideas. Conclusion does not restate the main ideas.	Poor Essay lacks either an introductory statement OR a conclusion.

Keywords:

writing, 2-paragraph

Subjects:

English

Types:

Writing

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