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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