iRubric: Descriptive Writing Rubric

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Descriptive Writing Rubric

Students will describe a picture of their choice by using their five senses to create a descriptive piece of writing. Writing will be graded on capitalisation, punctuation, use of main idea and supporting details, spelling of high frequency words, plural noun use, verbs and descriptive words.

Rubric Code: Y5W9WX

By jamierussell

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: (none)

Descriptive Writing- Poster description
	5 pts	4 pts	3 pts	2 pts	1 pts
Capitalisation & Punctuation All sentences start with Capital letters and appropriate punctuation is used.	5 The writing is free of capitalisation & punctuation errors.	4 The writing has 1 or 2 capitalisation & punctuation errors.	3 The writing has 3 or more capitalisation & punctuation errors.	2 The writing has 5 or more capitalisation & punctuation errors	1 The writing has many capitalisation & punctuation errors.
Main Idea & Details The type of picture is mentioned as well as any title or words on the picture.	5 The type of picture and main idea of the picture is clear in the writing. Any title on picture is included.	4 The type of picture or the main idea of the picture is clear in the writing. The title on picture imay be included.	3 The type of picture and main idea of the picture is mentioned briefly in the writing. Any title on picture is not included.	2 The type of picture or main idea of the picture is not clear in the writing. No title on picture is imentioned.	1 No mention of title, type of picture or main idea is in text.
Grammar Correct grammar is used	5 The writing contains proper use of Plural Nouns, and Verbs. Use of descriptive language adds to text.	4 The writing contains 1 or two errors in use of Plural Nouns, Verbs and describing words.	3 The writing contains 3 or more errors in use of Plural Nouns, Verbs and describing words or few describing words are used.	2 The writing contains 4+ errors in use of nouns, verbs or describing words.	1 The writing contains many errors in use of nouns, verbs, and no describing words.
Spelling After editing and conferencing no spelling errors should be present.	5 The writing is free of spelling errors	4 The writing has only 1 spelling error.	3 The writing has only 2 spelling errors.	2 The writing has 3 or 4 spelling errors.	1 The writing has 5+ spelling errors.
Draft Students complete first draft and self edit then conference with teacher for further editing before final copy completed.	5 Draft completed with errors corrected and conferenced with teacher.	4 Draft completed and self edited but no conference with teacher.	3 Draft completed with attempted editing by student, no conferencing with teacher.	2 Draft completed- no editing attempted	1 No draft or rough draft not completed in time allowed.