4th grade Instructional Guide

4th Grade Wonders Expository Writing Rubric

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

Evidence and Elaboration (4-point Rubric)

Conventions of Standard English (2-point Rubric)

Score

2

●​ Stays somewhat focused on the purpose, audience, and task, but may include unimportant details ●​ Does not clearly present or develop a central idea ●​ Uses few transitional strategies to connect ideas ●​ May not follow a logical text structure to organize information ●​ May begin with an inadequate introduction or end with an unsatisfactory conclusion purpose, audience, and task ●​ Does not have a central idea ●​ Uses few or no transitional strategies to connect ideas ●​ Does not follow a logical text structure to organize information ●​ Does not include an introduction nor a conclusion ●​ Is not aware of the

●​ Shows some support of the central idea with few convincing facts and details ●​ Has weak and inappropriate examples of evidence or does not include enough sources ●​ May not use elaborative techniques effectively ●​ Expresses some interesting ideas, but ideas are simple and vague ●​ Uses limited academic and domain-specific language ●​ May use only simple sentence structures ●​ Supports the central idea with few facts and details or does not support the central idea at all ●​ Has few or no examples of evidence or does not include enough sources ●​ Does not use elaborative techniques ●​ Has confusing or unclear ideas or does not express any interesting ideas ●​ Does not demonstrate a grasp of academic and domain-specific language ●​ Consists only of simple sentence structures

●​ Has a sufficient

command of grammar and usage

●​ Has a sufficient command of capitalization,

punctuation, spelling, and sentence formation

●​ Has slight errors in grammar and usage that do not affect meaning

1

●​ Has an incomplete

command of grammar and usage

●​ Has an incomplete command of capitalization,

punctuation, spelling, and sentence formation

●​ Has some errors in grammar and usage

that may affect meaning

0

●​ Does not have a

command of grammar and usage command of capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and sentence formation

●​ Does not have a

●​ Has too many serious errors in grammar and usage that frequently disrupt meaning

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