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Writing a personal Narrative embedded aSSeSSmeNT 1
SCORING GUIDE
Ideas
Scoring Criteria
Exemplary
The narrative
• presents a clearly
focused and
significant incident
• develops
experiences, events, and/or characters through thorough and effective use of dialogue, pacing, and descriptive details.
Proficient
The narrative
• presents a focused
and significant
incident
• develops
experiences, events, and/or characters through techniques such as dialogue, pacing, and descriptive details.
Emerging
The narrative
• Presents an
inconsistently
focused incident
• Begins to develop
experiences, events, and/or characters through some use of dialogue, pacing, and/or descriptive details.
Incomplete
The narrative
• presents an
unfocused or unclear
incident
• fails to develop
experiences, events, and/or characters; minimal use of elaborative techniques.
Structure
The narrative
• engages and orients
the reader in an
introduction
• sequences events
in the incident and response logically and naturally
• uses a variety
of transitional strategies effectively
• provides an insightful reflective conclusion.
The narrative
• orients the reader
with an adequate
introduction
• sequences events
in the incident and
response logically
• uses transitional
words, phrases, and clauses to link events and signal shifts
• provides a reflective conclusion.
The narrative
• provides a weak
or unrelated
introduction
• sequences events
unevenly
• uses inconsistent,
repetitive, or basic transitional words, phrases, and clauses
• provides a weak or disconnected conclusion.
The narrative
• lacks an introduction
• sequences events
illogically
• uses few or no
transitional
strategies
• lacks a conclusion.
Use of Language
The narrative
• uses precise words
and sensory language effectively to convey the experience
• demonstrates command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage (including pronoun use, sentence variety, dialogue tags, and punctuation).
The narrative
• uses generally
precise words and sensory language to convey the experience
• demonstrates adequate command of the conventions
of standard English capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage (including pronoun use, sentence variety, dialogue tags, and punctuation).
The narrative
• uses few precise
words and little
sensory language
• demonstrates partial
or inconsistent command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage (including pronoun use, sentence variety, dialogue tags, and punctuation).
The narrative
• uses limited, vague,
and unclear words
and language
• lacks command of the conventions of
standard English capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage; frequent errors obscure meaning.
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