6 TRAIT RUBRICS

UNDEVELOPED EMERGING STRONG EXCELLENT SKILLS Rambling or copied writing with unrelated ideas and details Important details, some trivia shows knowledge, but no clear end Original details usually develop to the end of a story Organized quality details building and developing the plot Ideas Words are vague, misused; (go, went really) No adjectives or adverbs Some words are selected and communicate specific word pictures Most words are carefully selected to convey a feeling or setting Individual and careful selection of quality, risky words, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs Word Choice No writer behind words, cold, careless, mechanical Some caring, honest individual behind words A strong personality behind words Honest caring personality in writing that interacts with reader Voice Spelling errors, no paragraphs, capitals, periods, commas Paragraphs lack unity or punctuation needs to be edited again Strong use of periods, commas, sentences to build strong paragraphs No edit of punctuation, spelling capitalization and paragraphs with risks Conventions Simple sentences, run ons, or fragments Simple sentences that communicate ideas without many errors Sentences vary in length and style, communicate clearly, and are interesting Communicates clearly varied but connected sentences and paragraphs Sentence Fluency No beginning, middle, ending, rising action climax or theme Rambles without direction or purpose Interesting intro, strong body and conclusion Purposeful and carefully build essential details Organization No name, date, assignment-no heading Heading is missing important details; date, subject, or assignment Complete heading In search of new horizons to communicate essential info Heading Lacks parts of writing process Has some of the parts of the writing process Has most of the parts of the writing process Has all parts; prewrite, edit, reflection, final, rubric, extra Process