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6 Traits of Writing Sticky Note Rubrics
Assess ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions with teacher and student rubrics designed for printing on sticky notes.
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Reusable scoring guidesNarrative assessment
Narrative Rubric Teacher Version
Score narrative writing using four performance levels for sensory description, character thoughts, dialogue, and grammar and style.
Reusable scoring guidesStudent & peer assessment
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.
Reusable scoring guidesStudent & peer assessment
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.
Reusable scoring guidesStudent & peer assessment
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.
Reusable scoring guidesStudent & peer assessment
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.
Narrative assessment
Personal Narrative Writing, Graphic Organizer, Rubric & Examples
Guide students through a personal narrative using graphic organizers and examples, then assess the finished writing with the included rubric.
Narrative assessment
Mystery Narrative Step-by-Step Writing Guide
A step-by-step creative-writing project guide leading students through planning, mapping, drafting, peer-editing and finalizing an original mystery narrative, with a rubric aligned to narrative-writing standards.
Voice & writing craftNarrative assessment
Literary Devices Creative Writing Prompts
Give middle/high school students short, targeted creative writing exercises that isolate and practice five literary devices (Details, Diction, Imagery, Point of View, and Tone) one at a time, building creative writing skills incrementally.
Voice & writing craftNarrative assessment
Creative Writing Gr 4-5
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 4-5 students through character development, descriptive writing, poetry, and imaginative writing techniques.
Creative Writing Prompts (Magic Potions and Spells Edition)
A magic-potions-and-spells themed creative writing activity where students design a magic potion or spell using assigned 'magic power' traits, then write about it using a graphic organizer and are assessed with a rubric.
Voice & writing craft
Animal Farm Ch 9: Eulogy for Boxer's funeral Creative Writing + rubric Google
Students choose a farm animal’s voice and write Boxer’s eulogy as a short narrative or poem. The assignment asks them to incorporate and annotate at least two literary devices and include a cited quotation from the novel. Model eulogies and a rubric support planning, drafting and feedback.
Voice & writing craftNarrative assessment
An Introduction to 6 Word Stories | Getting to Know You Activity
A creative-writing activity introducing students to the 'six word story' format as a getting-to-know-you and theme-identification exercise, with a scoring rubric.
Narrative assessment
Science Story Prompt Bundle for Grade 7-10 Science-Fully Editable Grow
Students write original story conclusions connected to science concepts. The bundle includes grading criteria for assessing their creative responses.
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Student & peer assessmentNarrative assessment
Arctic Animals Endless Creative Writing Prompts
A creative writing resource using an arctic animals theme and the SWBST (Somebody Wants But So Then) story structure to give first-to-third grade students low-prep writing prompts that also build arctic animal knowledge.
Narrative assessment
To Build A Fire by Jack London (Alternate Ending Writing Project)
A creative writing project that has students demonstrate comprehension of Jack London's short story 'To Build a Fire' by identifying a turning point in the plot and writing an alternate ending from that point, using plot-diagram planning and a grading rubric.
Voice & writing craft
Puns for Fun - Making School PUN Again!
A slide deck teaching the concept of puns/wordplay through examples (joke puns, food puns, punnies/comics) and a creative-writing assignment applying puns.
Voice & writing craftNarrative assessment
Piggy's Eulogy: Characterization Activity Lord of the Flies chapter 11
A creative-writing characterization activity in which students write a eulogy for the character Piggy after reading Chapter 11 (or the full novel) of Lord of the Flies.
Student & peer assessmentNarrative assessment
Zoo Animals Endless Creative Writing Prompts
Provides a low-prep, reusable creative-writing framework using the 'Somebody Wants But So Then' (SWBST) story structure, themed around zoo animal character cards.
Voice & writing craftNarrative assessment
Literary Terms Lesson for Points of View
A literary-terms vocabulary lesson package teaching 13 terms related to Points of View through a slide presentation, guided notes, a creative-writing application task, and multiple assessment options.
Answers included
Reusable scoring guidesVoice & writing craft
Grading Rubric for Poetry Slam Success
A grading rubric/checkbric set for evaluating a student's spoken-word 'poetry slam' performance, covering both the written poem (knowledge/thinking/communication/application) and the oral delivery (voice, body language, gesture).
Student & peer assessmentNarrative assessment
First Ladies Endless Creative Writing Prompts (Women's History Month)
A creative-writing unit using cards naming US First Ladies as character prompts, for Women's History Month.