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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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Score narrative writing using four performance levels for sensory description, character thoughts, dialogue, and grammar and style.
Includes: 1-page rubric with 4 performance levels (A-D) across 4 criteria (Snapshot, Thought-shot, Dialogue, Grammar & Style) and a total score field
A one-page scoring rubric for evaluating student informative research-based writing.
Give teachers a hamburger-themed writing rubric (two styles: pre-filled and blank) to grade student writing on a 4-point scale.
Includes: 4-level (4/3/2/1) writing rubric scoring Content/Ideas, Organization, Vocabulary/Word Choice, and Voice · instruction to edit on Google Slides
Assess ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions with teacher and student rubrics designed for printing on sticky notes.
Includes: Teacher and student rubrics for six writing traits · Sticky-note printing instructions
Help students assess their own narrative writing or give peer feedback using four performance levels and specific writing criteria.
Includes: 2-page rubric with 4 performance levels (A-D) across 4 criteria: Snapshot (sensory detail, character development via STEAL, vocabulary), Thought-shot (inner…
This resource is a News Story Writing Rubric. Printed 2 per page, this rubric pairs well in your writing unit when students are writing a news story. This rubric covers content, organization, and mechanics.
Guide students through a personal narrative using graphic organizers and examples, then assess the finished writing with the included rubric.
Provide teachers a ready-to-use rubric for grading research-based informative writing.
Includes: 1-page rubric with 5 categories (Conventions/C.O.P.S., Organization, Quality of Information, Citing Reliable Sources, Research Process/Notes), each scored at… · total score line (out of 30 points) and a notes field
A complete lesson plan, notebook templates, publishing sheets, and assessment rubric for teaching students to write limerick poems.
Includes: Lesson plan/overview (45-60 min procedure) · Student reference sheet explaining limerick structure (2 copies) · Interactive notebook Cover Sheet and Response Sheet with assembly instructions
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.
Includes: essay requirements page with due-date tracker (research notes, outline, draft, peer edit, final) · writing-tips / peer-and-self editing checklist
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).
Includes: 1-page spoken word success criteria checklist · Writing Checkbric (4-level rubric: Knowledge and Understanding, Thinking, Communication, Application) · Oral Checkbric (4-level rubric: Voice, Body Language and Gesture)
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.
Includes: critical thinking skills chart mapped to Bloom's Taxonomy across 12 chapters · assessment rubric (Ideas, Organization, Style, Conventions - 4 levels)
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.
Includes: research essay requirements/due-dates sheet · writing tips checklist for peer self/peer confirmation
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.
Includes: Introductory explanation of the six-word story concept with example stories · Step-by-step activity instructions (5 steps) including a link to an external video (Larry Smith) · List of possible personal-story topics
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.
Includes: mystery-classics examples page with due-dates tracker · writing tips / self and peer editing checklist · scoring rubric (CCRA.W.3.A, CCRA.W.3.B, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.L.1-2)
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.
Includes: five-paragraph essay structure diagram · paragraph-writing guidance · transition word lists (examples, emphasis, additional information, explanation)
Scaffolded research-essay guide walking middle/high school students through researching and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-style essay on an important figure in California history, with rubric and peer-review support.
Includes: research essay requirements/due-dates sheet · writing tips checklist for self/peer confirmation
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.
Includes: Assignment instructions and requirements (minimum 2-page alternate ending, 3rd person, consistent setting/theme) · 3rd Person 'Cheat Sheet' scaffold
A step-by-step realistic-fiction narrative writing guide that has students make structural/setting/character decisions before drafting, then write, peer-edit, and revise a realistic fiction story, with an accompanying scoring rubric.
Includes: Examples of realistic fiction from popular media (film/book references) · due-dates checklist · writing tips checklist (self/peer confirm)
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.
Includes: Writing Practice Test (20 questions, 2 passages) · Answer Key with detailed explanations and open-response scoring rubrics · Teacher's Guide
Guides students through independent biographical research on Emily Dickinson 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.
Includes: Research essay requirements/instructions page · Writing tips checklist (self-check and peer-check columns) · Essay rubric scored against CCRA.W.2.A, CCRA.W.2.B, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3 (out of 40 points total)
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.
Includes: Writing Practice Test (20 questions, 2 passages) · Answer Key with detailed explanations and open-response scoring rubrics · Teacher's Guide
Guide students through independently researching the literary life and legacy of William Shakespeare, using a scored rubric and biographical organizer to produce a 5-paragraph research essay.
Includes: essay requirements/instructions page (5-paragraph essay, 3+ sources, works cited) · writing-tips self-check/peer-check list · 4-criterion essay rubric (CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.7, CCRA.L.3) with a hyperlink to an editable, Google-Classroom-ready version
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.
Includes: Writing Practice Test (20 questions, 2 passages) · Answer Key with detailed explanations and open-response scoring rubrics · Teacher's Guide