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Leads

Student draws the reader in with an exciting and interesting beginning. Uses dialogue, action, setting or combination to set a mood.

Student uses one of the following to lead off the story: dialogue, action, or setting.

Student attempts an exciting lead, but leaves out dialogue, setting or action.

Student does not begin with a strong lead. Student directly states what is going on.

Focus on Topic (Content)

Student narrowed their narrative to a small "seed" story after reviewing a sequence of events.

Student narrowed the story but story is still too big due to reviewing events.

Student develops a seed story that is still too big and not really sequential.

Student's story is a watermelon story and is not sequential.

Stance

Student creates a movie for a reader. The event is recreated using many details , making it easy for the reader to relive the event.

Student creates a movie for the reader, using some details. It is somewhat difficult for the reader to relive and picture the event.

Student attemps to create a movie for the reader, but uses few details, making it difficult for the reader to picture the event.

Student does not relive the event and leaves out details making it hard for the reader to picute the event.

Qualities of Good Writing

The narrative is written in a focused chronological order.

The narrative is pretty focused and mostly in a chronologial order, with only 2-3 events out of order.

The narrative is weakly focused and lacks a strong chronological order. Many of the events are jumbled up.

The narrative lacks focus and has no real order to it.

Capitalization & Punctuation (Conventions)

The student correctly punctuates and capitalizes throughout their narrative.

The student has 2-3 capitalization and punctuation errors through out their narrative.

The student has 4-5 capitalization and punctuation errors throughout their narrative.

The student has more than 6 capitalization and punctuation errors throughout their narrative.

Grammar & Spelling (Conventions)

The student has proper grammar and spelling throughout their narrative.

The student has 2-3 grammatical and spelling errors throughout their narrative.

The student has 4-5 grammatical and spelling errors throughout their narrative.

The student has more than 6 grammatical and spelling errors throughout their narrative.