Rubric


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**__Third Grade Writing Rubric __** understanding of purpose. || Demonstrates little understanding of purpose. || Demonstrates no understanding of purpose. || effective || Maintains a mostly consistent point of view, focus, and organizational structure || Maintains an uneven point of view, focus, and/ or organizational structure. || Lacks a clear point of view, focus, and/or organizational structure. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">explanations. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Presents a central idea with <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">mostly relevant facts, details, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">and/or explanations. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Suggests a central idea with limited facts, details, and/or explanations. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Lacks a central idea, but may contain marginally related facts, details, and/or explanations. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">the reader’s understanding of <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">the writing. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Contains some errors in the <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">conventions of English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). These errors do not interfere with the reader’s understanding of the writing. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Contains several errors in the conventions of English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). These <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">errors may interfere with the reader’s understanding of the <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">writing. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Contains serious errors in the <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">conventions of English language <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">(grammar, punctuation, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">capitalization, spelling). These <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">errors may interfere with the <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">reader’s understanding of the writing. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">4 ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">3 **  ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">2 **  ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">1 **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">The writing addresses all parts of the writing task with 3 to 4 sentences || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Addressed all parts of the writing task with 3 complete sentences missing one sentence or components of a sentences || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Addresses only parts of the writing task with 2 sentences and missing 1 sentences or components of a sentence || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Addresses only one part of the writing task with 1 sentences and missing 2 sentences or components of a sentence ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">The writing demonstrates a clear understanding of purpose. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Demonstrates a general
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Organization is clear and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Includes a clearly presented central idea with relevant facts, details, and/ or
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Contains few, if any, errors in the conventions of English language (grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling). These errors do not interfere with