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

4

●​ Stays focused on the purpose, audience, and task ●​ Clearly presents and fully develops the central idea about a topic ●​ Uses transitional strategies, such as words and phrases, to connect ideas ●​ Uses a logical text structure to organize information ●​ Begins with a strong introduction and ends with a strong conclusion

●​ Effectively supports the central idea with convincing facts and details ●​ Has strong examples of relevant evidence, or supporting details ●​ Uses elaborative techniques ●​ Expresses interesting ideas clearly using precise language ●​ Uses appropriate academic and domain-specific language ●​ Uses different sentence structures ●​ Mostly supports the central idea with some convincing facts and details ●​ Has some examples of mostly relevant evidence, or supporting details, with references to multiple sources interesting ideas using both precise and general language ●​ Mostly uses appropriate academic and domain-specific language ●​ Mostly uses different sentence structures ●​ Uses some elaborative techniques ●​ Generally expresses

3 meets grade level standards

●​ Generally stays focused on the

purpose, audience, and task

●​ Presents and

develops the central idea about a topic in a mostly clear and complete way, although there may be some unimportant details strategies, such as the words and phrases, to connect ideas logical text structure to organize information

●​ Uses some transitional

●​ Uses a mostly

●​ Begins with an acceptable introduction and

ends with a sufficient

6.5.26