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Personal Narrative Rubric

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

Rubric Code: UBB42B

By TeacherTif

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8, 9-12

Personal Narrative Rubric
	Great 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Average 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Writing Content/ Ideas	Great Focuses on event/experience, multiple use of excellent sensory details (imagery), 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 Switches around from 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 one thought correctly follws another, uses transitions (time, place, contrast, comparison)in writing, the story is easy to understand and flows very smoothly.	Good 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.
Voice	Great Stay in 1st Person. Reader can tell that writer is genuinely interested in topic, vivid use of words (Imagery) and thoroughly engaging and interesting (let me see your attitude).	Good Stays mostly in 1st Person. Reader can tell that the writer is mostly interested in topic, some vivid use of words and engaging.	Average Rarely stays in 1st Person. Writer does not seem interested in story, barely any vivid use of words and is semi-interesting to the reader.	Poor Not in 1st person. The reader can tell that the writer has no interest in the story, has no vivid word usage, and is not an engaging story to the reader.
Grammar	Great Good variety in sentence structure (complex sentences), correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.	Good Good variety in sentence structure, few mistakes in punctuation, capitalization, or spelling.	Average Somewhat same sentence structure, some noticeable mistakes in punctuation, capitalization or spelling that slightly puts off the story.	Poor Simple sentence structure, major mistakes in punctuation, capitalization or spelling that completely throws off the story.