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Narrative Rubric Teacher Version
Score narrative writing using four performance levels for sensory description, character thoughts, dialogue, and grammar and style.
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Writing Rubric Middle School
Assess middle-school writing with clear criteria for ideas, organization, evidence and conventions. Start with reusable rubrics, or choose a writing project that includes its own scoring guide.
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Research-Based Writing Rubric – Class Ready
A one-page scoring rubric for evaluating student informative research-based writing.
Reusable writing rubrics
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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Hamburger Rubrics (Editable on Google Slides)
Give teachers a hamburger-themed writing rubric (two styles: pre-filled and blank) to grade student writing on a 4-point scale.
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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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News Story Writing Rubric
This news story rubric makes the assignment’s expectations visible before students begin writing. Its 50 points cover content, organization and mechanics, with criteria for a lead paragraph, factual reporting, witness quotations and captioned pictures. Two copies fit on each sheet, so you can attach one to a draft or finished story and use the same criteria during revision.
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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.
Reusable writing rubrics
Informative Writing Rubric | ELA Essay Rubric Research-Based Writing
Provide teachers a ready-to-use rubric for grading research-based informative writing.
Narrative & poetry 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.
Research projects with rubrics
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.
Narrative & poetry assessment
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).
Narrative & poetry 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.
Essay & paragraph assessment
How to Write an Essay: Prewriting and Graphic Organizers
A chapter slice from a larger essay-writing workbook, covering prewriting and graphic-organizer strategies as part of a five-step writing model, with a critical-thinking (Bloom's Taxonomy) skills chart and an assessment rubric for evaluating student writing.
Research projects with rubrics
British Prime Ministers Essay Research Guide
Scaffolded research-essay guide walking students through researching and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-style essay on a significant British prime minister, with rubric and peer-review support.
Writing tests & response tasks
Florida (FAST) Writing Practice Test for Grade 7
Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 7, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.
Answers included
Narrative & poetry 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.
Essay & paragraph assessment
Writing: Five Paragraph Essay
A teaching guide/graphic organizer explaining the structure of a five-paragraph essay (introduction, three supporting paragraphs, conclusion) with transition words and a grading rubric.
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Writing tests & response tasks
Florida (FAST) Writing Practice Test for Grade 6
Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 6, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.
Answers included
Narrative & poetry 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.
Writing tests & response tasks
Florida (FAST) Writing Practice Test for Grade 8
Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 8, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.
Answers included
Reusable writing rubrics
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.
Reusable writing rubrics
DBQ Writing Guide & Evaluation Rubric
Teaches students the process of writing a Document Based Question (DBQ) essay -- forming a thesis, using supporting documents, and structuring an argument -- and provides rubrics to grade the resulting essay.
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Narrative & poetry assessment
Poetry Month Activity
A Poetry Month research and writing activity in which students research an assigned poet and write a short biography summary.
Essay & paragraph assessment
Mini-Reviews Book Report
A lesson plan and set of materials teaching middle/high school students to write and publish short 'mini-review' book reviews of a novel or nonfiction book they have read, in the style of online reader reviews (e.g. Goodreads, Amazon).
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