Pathways Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking 3: Writing Assessment Rubric

Name: ________________________________________ Unit: ______

Criterion Score of 4 Score of 3 Score of 2 Score of 1
Pre-writing and Well organized Good organization Some organization Lacks organization
organization ●● Clear thesis and topic ●● Clear thesis and topic ●● Thesis and topic sentences ●● Weak or missing thesis and /
sentences sentences are slightly unclear or topic sentences
●● Supporting ideas are in a ●● Supporting ideas are in a ●● Sequencing of supporting ●● Lack of sequencing of

logical sequence mostly logical sequence ideas is unclear supporting ideas

●● Strong conclusion ●● Good conclusion ●● Weak conclusion ●● No conclusion

Content Excellent supporting Strong supporting ideas Good supporting ideas, Weak supporting ideas
ideas that are appropriate that are appropriate to the but some are slightly or ideas that are unrelated
to the task task unrelated to the task to the task
●● Supporting ideas are ●● Supporting ideas are ●● Supporting ideas are ●● Supporting ideas are weak

well explained and have somewhat explained with a incomplete with little detail with little or no detail
enough details bit of detail ●● Some supporting ideas are ●● Supporting ideas are

●● Supporting ideas are ●● Supporting ideas are mostly unrelated to the task or the unrelated to the task or the
related to the task goal related to the task goal and paragraph’s main idea paragraph’s main idea
and the paragraph’s the paragraph’s main idea
main idea
Vocabulary Wide range of Good range of Average range of Limited range of
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary
●● Appropriate and related ●● Appropriate and related to ●● Mostly appropriate and ●● Minimally appropriate and

to task task related to task related to task

●● Effective use of less ●● Good attempt to use less ●● Some attempt to use less ●● Inaccurate use of target

common words common words common words vocabulary

●● Errors are minor and not ●● Occasional errors, but ●● A number of errors that ●● Frequent errors that greatly

frequent meaning is still clear affect understanding affect understanding

Sentence Excellent sentence Good sentence structure Average sentence Weak sentence
Structure and structure and language and language use structure and language use structure and language use
Grammar use ●● Good variety of sentence ●● Little variety in sentence ●● Simple or repetitive

●● Varied sentence structure structure structure sentence structure

●● Very few grammatical ●● A few grammatical errors ●● A number of grammatical ●● Many grammatical errors

errors in subject-verb in subject-verb agreement, errors in subject-verb in subject-verb agreement,

agreement, verb tense verb tense agreement, use of agreement, verb tense verb tense agreement,
agreement, use of conjunctions, etc� that do not agreement, use of use of conjunctions, etc�
conjunctions, etc� affect understanding conjunctions, etc� that that greatly affect
slightly affect understanding understanding
Spelling and Excellent command of Good command of spelling Average command of Weak command of
Punctuation spelling and punctuation and punctuation spelling and punctuation spelling and punctuation
●● Few or no spelling errors ●● Some spelling errors, but ●● A number of spelling errors, ●● Many spelling errors

●● Correct use of mostly with uncommon words some with common words ●● Largely incorrect use of

punctuation: ●● Mostly correct use of ●● Some incorrect use of punctuation:

❍● Capitalization of names punctuation: punctuation: ❍● Capitalization of names

and places and at the ❍● Capitalization of names and ❍● Capitalization of names and places and at the
beginning of sentences places and at the beginning and places and at the beginning of sentences
❍● Use of comma between of sentences beginning of sentences ❍● Use of comma between

clauses and where ❍● Use of comma between ❍● Use of comma between clauses and where
appropriate clauses and where clauses and where appropriate
❍● Use of period or appropriate appropriate ❍● Use of period or

question mark at the ❍● Use of period or question ❍● Use of period or question question mark at the
end of sentences mark at the end of mark at the end of end of sentences
❍● Use of apostrophes for sentences sentences ❍● Use of apostrophes for

indicating possession ❍● Use of apostrophes for ❍● Use of apostrophes for indicating possession
indicating possession indicating possession
Score
Total score: / 20

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