4th grade Instructional Guide

4th Grade Wonders Argumentative Rubric

Purpose, Focus, and Organization (4-point Rubric)

Evidence and Elaboration (4-point Rubric)

Conventions of Standard English (2-point Rubric)

Score

4

● Stays focused on the purpose, audience, and task ● Makes a claim that clearly supports a perspective ● Uses transitional strategies, such as words and phrases, to connect ideas logical progression, or order ● Begins with a strong introduction and ends with a conclusion ● Generally stays focused on the purpose, audience, and task ● Makes a claim that mostly supports a perspective ● Uses some transitional strategies, such as words and phrases, to connect ideas ● Presents a mostly logical logical progression, or order ● Begins with an acceptable introduction and ends with a sufficient conclusion ● Presents ideas in a

● Effectively supports the claim with logical reasons ● Has strong examples of relevant evidence, or supporting details, from multiple sources ● Uses elaborative techniques, ● Expresses interesting ideas clearly using precise language ● Uses appropriate academic and domain-specific language ● Uses different sentence structures

3

● Mostly supports the claim with some logical reasons ● Has examples of mostly

relevant evidence, or supporting details,from multiple sources ● Uses some elaborative techniques ● Generally expresses

interesting ideas using both precise and general language ● Uses mostly appropriate academic and domain-specific language ● Mostly uses different sentence structures

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