iRubric: someone special rubric

Child wrote four or more facts about his/her special person. Child used varied sentence structure and vocabulary in the story. Content was cohesive and on topic.

Child wrote two or more facts about his/her special person. Child used varied sentence structure and vocabulary in the story. Content was on topic.

Child wrote one or two facts about his/her special person. Child stayed on topic.

Child did not write about the topic. Child wrote unrelated sentences.

Child used appropriate punctuation at the end of sentences independently.

Child used appropriate punctuation at the end of each sentence with minimal teacher prompting.

Child used appropriate punctuation at the end of the sentence with much teacher support.

Child did not use appropriate puncutation in the writing piece; child used appropriate spacing with one to one assistance.

Child used a capital letter at the beginning of sentences. No erroneous capitals were used in the middle of a sentence.

Child used a capital letter at the beginning of sentences only with some teacher prompting and reminders.

Child used a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and not inappropriately in the sentence with much teacher support.

Little evidence seen of capitalization rules.