PA Writing Informational Analytic Rubric Grade K 1
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PA Writing – Informational Analytic Rubric – Grade K – 1 Student Friendly
Focus Choosing one main idea and sticking to it. Content Explaining the main idea and supporting it using facts and examples. Organization Grouping and connecting ideas and having a beginning, middle, and end. Style Using interesting words and different types of sentences. Conventions Using correct capitalization, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Focus Content Organization Style Conventions 4 I clearly and I completely and My ideas are clearly I used many My writing contains strongly taught my clearly explained and strongly interesting words complete thoughts readers about a my topic. organized. that help the reader and sentences. topic using I used many I have a strong and understand the I have few errors in drawings, words, important facts and creative ending for topic. capitalization. sentences. examples to teach my topic. I have few errors in I clearly and about my topic using I used many signal grammar. strongly named my drawings, words, words to group and I have few errors in topic in the and sentences. connect my ideas. punctuation. beginning. My facts and I clearly make I have few errors in I clearly and examples clearly connections spelling. strongly got my connected to my between drawing reader’s attention. topic. and writing.* 3 I clearly taught my I clearly explained My ideas are clearly I used some Most of my writing readers about a my topic. organized. interesting words contains complete topic using I used some I have a good that help the reader thoughts and drawings, words, important facts and ending for my topic. understand the sentences. sentences. examples to teach I used some signal topic. I have some errors I clearly named my about my topic using words to group and in capitalization. topic in the drawings, words, connect my ideas. I have some errors beginning. and sentences. I make connections in grammar. I clearly got my My facts and between drawing I have some errors reader’s attention. examples mostly and writing.* in punctuation. connected to my I have some errors topic. in spelling. 2 I somewhat taught I somewhat My ideas are I used few Some of my writing my readers about a explained my topic. somewhat interesting words contains complete topic using I used a few facts organized. that help the reader thoughts and drawings, words, and examples to I have a weak understand the sentences. sentences. teach about my ending for my topic. topic. I have many errors I somewhat named topic using I used few signal in capitalization. my topic in the drawings, words, words to group and I have many errors beginning. and sentences. connect my ideas. in grammar. I somewhat got my My facts and I make weak I have many errors reader’s attention. examples connections in punctuation. somewhat between drawing I have many errors connected to my and writing.* in spelling. topic. 1 I did not teach my I did not explain my My ideas are not I did not use Most of my writing readers about a topic. organized. interesting words does not contain topic using I did not use facts I did not have an that help the reader complete thoughts drawings, words, and examples to ending for my topic. understand the and sentences. sentences. teach about my I did not use signal topic. I did not use any I did not name my topic using words to group and correct topic. drawings, words, connect my ideas. capitalization. I did not get my and sentences OR I did not make I did not use any of reader’s attention. they did not connections the grammar I have connect to my topic. between drawing learned. and writing.* I did not use any punctuation. I have many errors in spelling.
*Item with an asterisk is for Kindergarten.
Adapted from PSSA Writing Scoring Guidelines by Dr. Sandra L. Rex and Cathy J. Enders Created: 10/7/2016