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Narrative Rubric

A helpful rubric to assess student's performance on writing a narrative. Use for your benefit to help write a stunning personal narrative.

Rubric Code: SX6A7BA

By slateje1

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Public Rubric

Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Personal Narrative Rubric
	Great 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Average 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Writing Content/ Ideas	Great Focuses on events/experiences, multiple use of excellent sensory details, engaging story with appropriate content that conveys a message to the reader.	Good Mostly focuses on event/ experience, use of sensory details, engaging story with mostly appropriate content that sends a slightly confusing message to the reader.	Average Somewhat focuses on event to event, average use of sensory details, interesting story with questionable content and doesn't convey a message of any sort to the reader.	Poor Cannot tell what the topic is about, uses no sensory details whatsoever, confusing story with questionable content and doesn't convey a message of any sort to the reader.
Organization	Great Very organized and sequential, uses transitions in writing, can follow the story easily and flows very smoothly.	Good Mostly organized, uses some transitions in writing, is a little choppy and mostly easy to follow.	Average Somewhat organized, uses little transition between paragraphs, is very rough and cannot follow the story easily.	Poor Not organized, events out of order and extremely hard to follow, is very rough and no use of transitions.
Dialogue	Great Dialogue included in narrative and makes sense to reader	Good Dialogue included in narrative and mostly makes sense to reader	Average Dialogue included in narrative and does not make sense to reader	Poor Dialogue not included in narrative
Grammar/ Conventions	Great Good variety in sentence structure, correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling, and an excellent use of word choice and variety.	Good Good variety in sentence structure, few mistakes in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling, and has a great use of word choice and variety.	Average Somewhat same sentence structure, some noticeable mistakes in punctuation, capitalization or spelling that slightly puts off the story, and has a solid use of word choice and variety.	Poor Simple sentence structure, major mistakes in punctuation, capitalization or spelling that completely throws off the story, and has little or no variety in word choice.