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Primary Writing Rating Scale: Checklist Assessment for Grammar, Spelling, Ideas
Provide a reusable rubric/checklist for teachers to assess primary-grade student writing across mechanics, spelling, and idea organization.
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Assess student writing with scoring rubrics, rating scales, and self- or peer-review checklists. Use writing tests and scored prompts to gather samples, or choose a writing unit with its own assessment tools.
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Writing Rubric BUNDLE for 3rd Grade with Checklist
Assess third-grade narrative, opinion, and informative writing with rubrics and student checklists. Choose the narrative rubric for story writing.
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Writing Rubric BUNDLE for 5th Grade with Checklist
Assess fifth-grade narrative, opinion, and informative writing with rubrics and student checklists. Choose the narrative rubric for story writing.
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Four Square for Writing Assessment - Elementary: A Companion to the Four Square Writing Method
Teaches the Four Square graphic-organizer method for planning and revising informational and narrative writing during a writing assessment, for elementary students.
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Four Square for Writing Assessment - Secondary: A Companion to the Four Square Writing Method
Teaches the Four Square graphic-organizer method for planning and revising informational and narrative writing during a writing assessment, for secondary students.
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4th Grade Writing Rubric Bundle – With Checklists
Three writing rubric sets — narrative , informative, and opinion — each pair a student-facing checklist describing what an 'excellent' response looks like across four or five traits with a five-point teacher grading guideline spelling out the difference between an 'Excellent' and a 'Needs Improvement' response, trait by trait. Each set includes scorecards with rating and comment spaces in bordered and unbordered layouts. Check and adapt the narrative and opinion scorecard headings to match the respective rubric before grading. All three rubrics use a consistent 1-5 scale (Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement, Inadequate) but trait definitions and counts differ across the three genres.
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Narrative Rubric – Student & Peer Self-Assessment
Give a peer editor this rubric alongside a completed narrative. After reading twice, the editor highlights qualities in column A that the writer uses consistently, then circles criteria that need continued practice. The criteria focus attention on character development and narrative craft as well as grammar and style. A separate peer editing checklist can support another pass through writing mechanics.
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Writing Language Assessment Worksheet
Provides teachers a checklist-style form to rate how frequently and correctly a student uses standard English writing conventions.
Self & peer review
Checklist to Edit Writing Letters
Self-edit and peer-edit checklist for a letter-writing assignment.
Self & peer review
Assessment Toolbox
A set of six printable assessment and observation forms for teachers to track student self-assessment, conversational skills, writing self-checks, and reading conference notes.
Writing units with assessment
A Student's Guide to Writing a Persuasive Essay
A step-by-step digital slide template that walks students through the full process of writing a persuasive/opinion essay, from brainstorming to final editing checklist.
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Self & peer review
Creative Writing Checklists
A student/peer self-editing reference checklist for creative writing stories, used to check structural and mechanical elements before submission.
Self & peer review
Author At Work Writing Checklist Activity
Provides self-assessment writing checklists so students can check that their written work contains the necessary components for narrative, opinion, and informative writing.
Writing tests & scored prompts
Florida (FAST) Pack of 3 Writing Tests for Grade 9
Give Grade 9 students realistic practice with the Florida B.E.S.T. Writing Assessment (text-based expository and argumentative prompts) before test day.
Writing tests & scored prompts
Florida (FAST) Pack of 3 Writing Tests for Grade 4
Give Grade 4 students realistic practice with the Florida B.E.S.T. Writing Assessment (text-based expository and argumentative prompts) before test day.
Writing units with assessment
Writing Research Guide: Football Biography
A requirements sheet, peer/self-editing checklist, and scoring rubric for a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay profiling a historical figure important to American football.
Writing units with assessment
Research Organizer & Essay Assignment: Cesar Chavez
Guides students through independent biographical research on Cesar Chavez and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
Self & peer review
Editing Checklist for Self and Peer
This editing checklist provides self-edit and peer-edit columns for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and formatting. Students check their drafts, exchange feedback and name the peer editor. Choose criteria appropriate to the writing task and teach them first. Clarify the source’s comma advice using sentence structure and context, as explained in the teaching notes.
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Florida (FAST) Pack of 3 Writing Tests for Grade 5
Give Grade 5 students realistic practice with the Florida B.E.S.T. Writing Assessment (text-based expository and argumentative prompts) before test day.
Writing units with assessment
Writing Research Guide: Soccer Biography
A requirements sheet, peer/self-editing checklist, and scoring rubric for a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay profiling a historical figure important to soccer.
Writing units with assessment
Limerick Poem Lesson Plan, Template, Examples & Rubric Poetry Writing
A complete lesson plan, notebook templates, publishing sheets, and assessment rubric for teaching students to write limerick poems.
Writing units with assessment
A Student's Guide to Writing a Personal Narrative
Walk a student step by step through writing a personal narrative, from brainstorming through drafting, revising, and a final editing checklist.
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Self & peer review
Editing Tool: Revising and Editing
A one-page reference tool teaching students the ARMS (Add, Remove, Move, Substitute) revising strategy and CUPS (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling) editing checklist for reviewing their own writing.
Self & peer review
Self-Editing COPS Cards- Help your Students Proofread Their Own Work
A single-page proofreading checklist walks students through the COPS acronym — Capitals, Organization, Punctuation, and Spelling — with three concrete checkpoints under each letter, such as capitalizing the beginning of every sentence and people's names, keeping different ideas in different paragraphs with a topic sentence and consistent verb tense, using an end mark and commas correctly, and checking unfamiliar spellings in a dictionary or with a teacher or friend. Framed as a "STOP and check COPS!!" reminder, the card is meant to be kept at a student's desk or pasted into a writing folder so it can be consulted every time a draft is finished, turning self-editing into a repeatable four-step routine rather than a one-time reminder from the teacher. Because it is a generic checklist rather than content tied to a specific text or grade-level skill, it can be reused across many different writing assignments throughout the year. Once students have run through this self-check, a peer editing checklist extends the same review process by having a classmate check spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and formatting a second time.