DLI 4th Grade 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 andusage

● Has a sufficient commandof 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 andusage

● Has an incomplete commandof 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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