30 Minute Narrative Challenge Writing Assessment Rubric

TITLE OF WRITING BEING ASSESSED: The only one

Highlight where you believe your level of achievement is for each of the 7 assessment areas below:
R3
Ideas

Structure
and
Language

Organisation

Vocabulary

Sentence
Structure

Punctuation

Writing has
many simple
ideas that are
related to the
topic

R4

R5

R6

Ideas are complex and

elaborated

Ideas are deliberately

selected, effective and
original, with detailed
elaboration , and show
reflection on the
wider world

Structural and language

features (refer writing
rubric) are appropriate
to purpose, and include
more detail

Structural and language

features (refer writing
rubric) are
appropriate to
purpose, include more
detail, and are
mostly controlled
(intentional)

Structural and language

features (refer writing
rubric) are appropriate
to purpose, include
more detail, and are
controlled and
effective

Ideas are
grouped and
sequenced and
writing
generally
flows

Writing shows an
understanding
(control) of grouping
and sequencing of
ideas, but paragraphs
are not actually used

Ideas are organised into

basic paragraphs

Paragraphs support the

development of text

Writing may be
brief, but
makes sense

Writing makes sense

Uses a range of
everyday
words and
phrases with a
few precise
words for
detail.
e.g. adjectives,
adverbs
Beginning to
include a
variety of
sentence types
(simple,
compound,
complex)
Some correct
use of sentence
punctuation (e.g.
full-stops,
capital letters).
May attempt
contractions and
commas

Uses a variety of
precise words and
phrases to add
information and/or
interest
e.g. similes, metaphors

Selects appropriate
words and phrases to
enhance meaning

Includes a variety of
correct sentence types
(simple, compound,
complex), and more
complex sentences are
used

Sentences have a variety

in structure, length and
type, and some are
deliberately used for
effect

Sentences are deliberately

crafted to impact and
engage

Most sentence
punctuation is correct and
some other punctuation
has been used correctly
(e.g.
commas, contractions)

Sentence and other

punctuation (e.g.
commas, contractions)
are correct and some
complex punctuation
is attempted (e.g.
direct speech, commas
for phrases and clauses)

Sentence and other

punctuation (e.g.
commas, contractions)
are correct and complex
punctuation is used
correctly (e.g. direct
speech, commas for
phrases and clauses,
hyphens, colons,
parentheses ).
Punctuation assists
meaning.
*R7 Controlled use of
punctuation to enhance
meaning with no errors.

OR
Writing has few
ideas that have
basic
elaboration
(details)
Some structural
and language
features (refer
writing rubric)
are
appropriate to
purpose

Ideas are relevant and

begin to show more
detail and there is at
least one
elaborated idea
OR
Writing has several
elaborated ideas

OR
All sentence punctuation
is correct but no other
punctuation is used.

*R7 paragraphs are

deliberately
structured to direct the
reader
Ideas are linked
effectively within and
across paragraphs
Precise words and
phrases are consistently
used to enhance meaning
and are used for effect
e.g. academic/technical
words

Spelling

Spells a range
of personal and
high-frequency
words correctly
(eg school,
where, friend,
outside,
playing).
May attempt
words with more
than two
syllables.

Spells a wide range of

personal and highfrequency words correctly.
Attempts difficult words.

Spells high-frequency
words and some
difficult words
correctly. (e.g. weird,
through)

Spells high-frequency
words and a range of
difficult words
correctly, with few or no
errors.

Self-Assessment and evaluation:

I believed I have tried my best to write a story in 30 minutes. But i believe I need to work on finding more difficult and expanded
words.

Peer feedback and feed-forward:

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