McKinley Primary Center / Language Arts Rubrics and Exemplars

Terms, Acronyms, and Definitions:

IAS (or ISS) – Indiana (Department of Education) Academic Standards (or Indiana State Standards).

Genre – the type of literature characterized by a specific form, content and style. Literature has four main genres; poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. Indiana assesses students on persuasive, informative, and narrative writing as well.

Grammar – The way a writer or speaker uses structured language to communicate.


Second Grade

2nd Grade Exemplars:     HIGH                                        MEDIUM                                                 LOW

Writing Rubric

 High                                                                                                 SCORE POINTS                                                                                             Low

 6

 5

 4

 3

 2

 1

 Ideas and Content

 

Stays on Topic?

Includes thorough and complete ideas?

Stay focused?

Include many relevant ideas?

 

Stay mostly focused?

Include some relevant ideas?

Stay somewhat focused?

Include some relevant ideas?

Exhibit less than minimal focus?

Include few relevant ideas?

Have little or no focus?

Include almost no relevant ideas?

 Organization

 Clear Order?

 Have clear order?

 Have order?

 Have some order?

 Have little order?

 Have little or no order?

 Style

 

Exhibit exceptional word usage?

Exhibit writing that is fluent and easy to read?

Display a strong sense of audience?

 

Exhibit more than adequate word usage?

Exhibit writing that is fluent and easy to read?

Display a sense of audience?

 

Exhibit adequate word usage?

Exhibit writing that is readable?

Display some sense of audience?

 

Exhibit minimal word usage?

Exhibit writing that is mostly readable?

Display little sense of audience?

 

Exhibit less than minimal word usage?

Exhibit writing that is hard to read?

Display little sense of audience?

 

Exhibit less than minimal word usage?

Exhibit writing that is hard to read?

Display little or no sense of audience?


Grammar Rubric

 High                                                                                                 SCORE POINTS                                                                                             Low

 4

3 

2 

1 

 

Are there few or no errors in beginning capitalization?

Are there few or no errors in capitalization of proper nouns?

Are there few or no errors in ending punctuation?

Are there few or no errors in the spelling of grade level appropriate words?

Does writing have few or no run on sentences or sentence fragments?

Is most beginning capitalization correct?

Are most proper nouns capitalized correctly? 

Do most sentences end with correct punctuation?

Are most grade level appropriate words spelled correctly?

Writing may have run on sentences or sentence fragments.

Is some beginning capitalization correct?

Are some proper nouns capitalized correctly?

Do some sentences end with correct punctuation?

Are some grade level appropriate words spelled correctly?

Writing may have run on sentences or sentence fragments.

Are there many errors in beginning capitalization?

Does writing have little or no evidence of capitalization of proper nouns?

Is end punctuation missing or incorrect?

Are there many errors in the spelling of grade level appropriate words?

Are there run on sentences or sentence fragments?


Genre Rubric

 Does the storyÉ

 Recount a well-elaborated event or sequence of events?

 Include details to describe actions, thoughts and feelings?

 Use temporal words to signal event order?

 Include dialogue between characters?

Provide a sense of closure? 

 Genre Score Scale

 0-1 Points = Kindergarten Level        2-3 Points = First Grade Level        4 Points = Second Grade Level        5 Points = Third Grade Level