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Letter to Santa

Students will write a letter to Santa with five sentences in each of the four paragraphs. Letter should include: greeting, body (asking for items then persuasion for items then wrapping it up.), salutation and signature.

Rubric Code: ZXX5828

By Kristinlane

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8

Persuasive Letter to Santa
	Excellent 4 pts	Satisfactory 3 pts	Needs Improvement 2 pts	Unsatisfactory 1 pts
Greeting, paragraph 1	Excellent Five sentence paragraph Greeting, Thank you for last year, Newsy info. Paragraph is indented Sentences begin with different words. Correct punctuation, capitalization, and spacing.	Satisfactory 1-3 mistakes are made.	Needs Improvement 4-6 mistakes are made.	Unsatisfactory There are more than six mistake in the paragraph.
Asking, paragraph 2	Excellent Five sentence paragraph Indented Asking for items on your with list Sentences begin with different words. Correct punctuation, capitalization and spacing.	Satisfactory 1-3 mistakes are made.	Needs Improvement 4-6 mistakes are made.	Unsatisfactory More than six mistakes are made.
Persuasion, paragraph 3	Excellent Five sentence paragraph Indented Giving reasons you deserve the items on your list. (persuasion) Each sentence begins with a different word. Correct, punctuation, capitalization and spacing.	Satisfactory 1-3 mistakes are made.	Needs Improvement 4-6 mistakes are made.	Unsatisfactory More than six mistakes are made.
Restating, paragraph4	Excellent Wrap it up in five sentence paragraph Restate items, why you want them, milk and cookies? Each sentence begins with a different word. Correct punctuation, capitalization and spacing.	Satisfactory 1-3 mistakes are made.	Needs Improvement 4-6 mistakes are made.	Unsatisfactory More than six mistakes are made.
Figures of Speech	Excellent Three different Figures of Speech are used throughout you letter. They make sense in their use.	Satisfactory A mistake in FOS was made.	Needs Improvement Two mistakes in use of FOS were made.	Unsatisfactory More than two mistakes were made.
Heading, Salutation, Signature	Excellent Letter includes a heading, salutation and signature. Correct punctuation, capitalization and spacing are used.	Satisfactory One mistake was made.	Needs Improvement Two mistake were made.	Unsatisfactory More than two mistakes were made.
Addressed Envelope	Excellent Envelope includes a correct address and return address. Correct punctuation, capitalization are used.	Satisfactory 1-2 mistakes were made.	Needs Improvement 3-4 mistakes were made.	Unsatisfactory More than four mistakes were made.