Writing Rubric

Writing Rubric
	Overall Development	Organization	Support	Sentence Structure	Word Choice	Mechanics
6	Has a lot of great ideas related to the task Shows a great understanding of what the task is Imaginative	Well organized from beginning to end The details are in a logical oder	Details are interesting and informative Details support the topic very well and include examples	The sentences are completely correct and varied The sentences starters are always different	Great vocabulary Very descriptive language	Very few or no errors in spelling, capitalization and punctuation
5	Has a lot of good ideas related to the task Shows a good understanding of what the task is Put together well	Organized from beginning to end The details are in a logical order	Details are informative Details support the topic well and some include examples	The sentences are practically all correct and varied The sentences starters are usually different	Good vocabulary Descriptive language	Few errors in spelling, capitalization & punctuation
4	Has some good ideas related to the task Shows understanding of what the task is	The writing is fairly organized from beginning middle and end Some details may be out of order	Details provide some information Most details support the topic	The sentences are mostly correct and varied The sentences starters are somewhat different	Acceptable vocabulary Some descriptive language	Some errors in spelling, capitalization & punctuation
3	Has ideas related to the task, but there are not enough Shows some understanding of what the task is	There is some organization, but not a lot The details are not in a logical order and some are confusing	Details provide a little information Some details support the topic Some important details are missing	The sentences have errors; there may be run-ons and fragments The sentences are not very different from each other The sentence starters are pretty much the same	Simple vocabulary Words are repeated Not very descriptive	There are errors in spelling, capitalization & punctuation that interfere with meaning
2	There are few ideas related to the task Does not seem to really understand the task	The writing is difficult to understand because of the order of the details and lack of organization	Details provide very little information Some details do not support the topic Very few details	There are many errors in the sentences The sentences start the same way each time	Very simple vocabulary Words are used incorrectly	There are many errors in spelling, capitalization & punctuation that interfere with meaning
1	There are no ideas related to the task There is no understanding of what the task is	The writing is so short that is has no organization	Almost no details Details do not support the topic	The sentences contain many errors and some do not make any sense The writing is so short that there are very few sentences	There is not enough writing to evaluate the word choice Words are repeated and used incorrectly	There are too many errors in spelling, capitalization & punctuation that the writing is very confusing