DLI 2nd Grade Guide

2nd Grade Wonders Expository 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

● Supports the central idea with facts and details ● Includes relevant evidence, or supporting details, from the sources ● Uses elaborative techniques, such as examples, definitions, and quotations ● Expresses ideas clearly with precise language ● Uses academic vocabulary to explain the topic ● Has different sentence types and lengths ● Supports the central idea with facts and details ● Includes relevant evidence, or supporting details, from the sources ● Uses an acceptable amount of different types of details that show understanding of the topic ● Expresses ideas with some precise language ● Uses some academic vocabulary to explain the topic ● Has some different sentence types and lengths

purpose, audience, and task ● States the central idea, or main idea ● Connects ideas with transitional words ● Presents ideas in a logical order ● Begins with an ● Stays mostly focused on purpose, audience, and task ● States a central idea, or main idea that is supported in some parts of the essay ● Connects ideas with some transitional words ● Presents ideas in a logical order ● Begins with an introduction and ends with a conclusion introduction and ends with a conclusion that sums up the topic

3

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