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Writing Workshop 7 (continued)
SCORING GUIDE
Ideas
Scoring Criteria
Exemplary
The narrative
• tells a focused story
about a personal
experience
• uses narrative
techniques such as dialogue, pacing, and description to effectively tell the story
• creatively shows the importance of actions and their consequences
Proficient
The narrative
• tells a generally
focused story about a
personal experience
• uses narrative
techniques to tell the
story
• reflects on the
importance of the experience, actions and/or consequences
Emerging
The narrative
• tells an unfocused
story about an
experience
• contains little or
no use of narrative
techniques
• contains limited or
no exploration of the importance of actions and/or consequences
Incomplete
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The narrative
• provides a beginning
that introduces a narrator and/or characters
• uses transitions
to connect events and signal shifts in setting or time
• provides an ending that brings closure to the narrative
The narrative
• contains a beginning
that is unclear and/ or does not directly relate to the story
• presents disconnected ideas and limited use of transitions
• Provides a minimal conclusion
The narrative
• summarizes rather
than narrates an
experience
• uses narrative
techniques either not at all or inconsistently
• neglects to present the significance of the experience
Structure
The narrative
• provides a creative
introduction to the
characters
• uses a variety of
transitions to connect events and signal shifts in setting or time
• provides an ending that naturally follows from the experience
The narrative
• contains no clear
beginning to the
narrative
• presents incidents
without a clear sense
of sequence
• presents no
concluding elements
Use of Language
The narrative
• uses sensory
language to make the
story vivid
• varies sentence
lengths to manipulate
pacing
• uses precise words
and phrases to
enhance the story
• uses figurative
language, such as personification, to provide description and develop tone
• shows control
of punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and spelling
The narrative
• uses sensory
language to make the
story clear
• uses a variety of
sentence lengths to
impact pacing
• uses precise words
and phrases
• uses figurative
language, such as personification, to help develop the text
• contains minor errors in punctuation, grammar, capitalization, or spelling, but they
do not interfere with meaning
The narrative
• uses sensory
language ineffectively or not at all
• shows little or no variety in sentence length
• contains words and phrases that are repetitive and/or unclear
• struggles to (or does not) use figurative language
• contains several errors in grammar, punctuation, capitalization, or spelling that interfere with meaning
The narrative
• uses little language
that appeals to the
senses
• contains little variety
or control in sentence
length
• contains diction
that is vague and
imprecise
• presents an absence
of figurative language
• contains multiple
and major errors in the conventions of writing that interfere with understanding
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