TOTAL:_____25 points Name_________________________________________

Creative Writing Rubric

This rubric will be used to grade your fiction writing. Follow the guidelines below to receive full points.

Above Mastery Mastery Near Mastery Below Mastery No Points

5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 0 points
Events are All events make Most events make Some events make Story makes no
sequenced both logical sense logical sense logical sense logical sense
logically and
creatively
(you took a
sequencing risk and it
worked out)
Uses three or more Uses two examples Uses one example of Use of figurative Does not attempt to
effective examples of of effective figurative effective figurative language is ineffective use figurative
figurative language. language language language
Four or more Three examples of Two examples of vivid One examples of Imagery is never
examples of vivid vivid imagery imagery vivid imagery attempted
imagery
(a example is one or
more sentences
describing the same
thing)
No distracting 1-3 distracting 4-6 distracting 7-9 distracting 10+ distracting
grammatical errors grammatical errors grammatical errors grammatical errors grammatical errors
AND 450-500 words and 450 - 500 words OR 400-449 words OR 300-399 words OR not even 300
words
Rough Draft shows 5 Rough Draft show 3-4 Rough Draft show 2 Rough Draft show 1 Only a final draft was
or more improvements improvements improvement submitted
improvements OR No
improvements were
made