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DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Persuasive Planet RAFT Writing Rubric.

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Category 4 Exceptional Ideas Your ideas are detailed and specific. You use unique and memorable descriptors. The writing is focused and clear. Organiza You use a hook to gain your tion audience and interest your reader. You use transitions to logically shift ideas in your writing. The piece is natural and the conclusion is an appropriate end to your piece. Voice Your writing shows personality in a natural way. The writing is honest and convincing. You connect with your audience and it reflects your attitude on your topic. Word You choose the best parts of speech Choice in your writing. These include, (Diction) adjectives that fit their descriptors, strong verbs, specific nouns, and figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification). Sentence Your sentences begin differently Fluency and vary between simple and complex. You use transitional words and surprising sentence structures. Your sentences have rhythm.

3 Strong Your writing only contains four of the bold criteria. Your writing only contains four of the bold criteria.

2 Developing Your writing only contains three of the bold criteria. Your writing only contains three of the bold criteria.

1 Emerging Your writing only contains one or two of the bold criteria. Your writing only contains one or two of the bold criteria.

Comments

Your writing only has four or five of the bold criteria. Your writing only contains four of the bold criteria.

Your writing only contains three of the bold criteria.

Your writing only contains one or two of the bold criteria. Your writing only contains one or two of the bold criteria.

Your writing only contains three of the bold criteria.

Your writing Your writing only only contains contains three of four or five of the bold criteria. the bold criteria.

Your writing only contains one or two of the bold criteria.