Name: ____________________________ Story Title:______________________________________________________

Date: _____________________________

Kid-Friendly, Narrative Writing Scoring Guidelines

Focus Content Organization Style Conventions
You have an excellent You have a strong focus or storyline that includes theme that shows you sensory details, conflict, resolution, and other Advanced understand the prompt. Your focus is strong throughout narrative elements. Your your entire narrative. story is written in a correct order of events. Your narrative has a clear You use a variety of sentence You demonstrate an beginning, middle, and end. structures. You have very excellent use of language, You use transition words few errors in grammar, including literary devices. properly. You have a usage, spelling, and Your sentences are clear and complete introductory punctuation. The errors that provide a visual image to the are there do not make writing paragraph and a complete reader. conclusion. unclear.

Your narrative has a clear You have a developed You show a good use of You use a variety of sentence beginning, middle, and end. You have a clear focus that storyline with some sensory language, and use at least structures. You have some You use transition words shows you understand the details, and other narrative one literary device. Your errors in grammar, usage, properly. You may have an Proficient prompt. Your focus is strong story elements. Your story is sentences are clear and spelling, and punctuation. A introductory paragraph and a for most of your narrative. written in a correct order of sometimes provide a visual few of these errors may make conclusion, but they may not events. image to the reader. parts of the writing unclear. be complete.
You have some focus or themes Your storyline has some that demonstrate you details, but does not follow understand most of the prompt. You do not follow this focus the general rules of writing a through most of your narrative, narrative. Your story events which makes it unclear if you are not always in order. understand the prompt.

Basic

Your main events are in order. You do not have a complete introductory paragraph or a complete conclusion.

You have some mistakes in language, which make it difficult to understand some points. You do not use literary devices, and visual images are not clear.

You do not use a variety of sentence structures, and some sentences may be fragments. There are many errors in grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation.

Below Basic

Your main events may not be Many sentences are awkward Your storyline is missing in correct order, which makes You have very little control of or are fragments. There are You have little or no focus or some important details, and the narrative hard to your language and sentences. many grammar, usage, theme, which makes it seem spelling, and punctuation it is not written in narrative understand. Your You do not have literary like you don't understand the form. Your story events are introductory paragraph and devices or images for the errors. These errors make the prompt. not always in order. conclusion are incomplete or reader. narrative very difficult to missing. read.

Score: Total Score: out of 20 possible points