This is a versatile writing rubric useful both for teachers and students (and parents!) that comes in two presentations:

• Cut out, laminate and attach to a ring binder to have an engaging and attractive rubric for your students.
• Print the 2 grids (colour or b&W) for your students to self-assess their work or for you to grade your students.

Rubrics are a fantastic assessment tool to use with students. They show the scoring guidelines of a certain skill, in different categories. Within each category are levels of quality, usually given a number rating and/or an adjective. In this rubric, the categories are graded: Excellent – Very good – Satisfactory – Needs improvement. It also has different ROBOT VISUALS that will help your students understand the difference between a good piece of writing and a poor one (see thumbnails above).

The categories of this writing rubric are:

CONTENT

ORGANIZATION

LANGUAGE USAGE

MECHANICS

You will be able to assess Topic focus, Paragraphs, Use of transition words, Organization, Vocabulary, Grammar, Punctuation and Case, Capitalization and Spelling.