Narrative+Account+Rubric

|| (from the ELA Standards) || ** Your Score ** || || Engages the reader with an interesting introduction that makes the reader connect with the story and the character. || Adequately engages the reader. || Makes an attempt to engage the reader but is not successful. || Does not try to engage the reader or establish the context of the story. ||  1
 * Rubric for Writing a Narrative Account Name: **
 * Distinguished **
 * Proficient ** ||
 * Developing ** ||
 * Needs Improvement / Beginning ** ||
 * Engaging the reader ** ||
 * Engaging the reader ** ||

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4 ||  || Establishes a situation, plot, persona, point of view, setting, conflict, and resolution; Develops complex characters. || Provides an adequately developed plot, but not quite good enough to rate it as distinguished. Characters are adequately developed. || Barely develops the plot and characters are superficial. || The plot is difficult to follow or understand and requires further development. Characters show little to no development. ||  1
 * Establishment of the plot and characters ** ||
 * Establishment of the plot and characters ** ||

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4 ||  || Creates an organizational structure that balances and unifies all narrative aspects of the story. || Shows a clear attempt at organization that comes close to unifying the story; digressions are rare. || Lacks focus and a controlling idea; however, digressions and/or abrupt shifts in the response may interfere with meaning. || There is little or no organization present; frequent digressions and/or abrupt shifts in the response interfere with meaning. ||  1
 * Organization ** ||
 * Organization ** ||

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4 ||  || The ideas are clearly and effectively developed; writing is fluent and polished with effective transitions. || Most ideas are clearly expressed; writing is generally fluent, with some use of transitions. || Some ideas may not be clearly expressed; fluency and transitions may be lacking. || Many ideas are difficult to understand; fluency and transitions are lacking. ||  1
 * Style and Fluency ** ||
 * Style and Fluency ** ||

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4 ||  || Demonstrates mastery of the rules of the English Language including punctuation, spelling, and grammar. || Makes good attempt to revise with only a few errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar. || Efforts to revise are made but with many errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar remaining. || Shows little to no evidence of proofreading, with many punctuation, spelling, grammatical,errors. ||  1
 * Grammar, Spelling and Proofreading ** ||
 * Grammar, Spelling and Proofreading ** ||

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