Spelling Quiz Rubric

Spelling Quiz Rubric 4 3 2 1 6 Traits: Ideas  The student uses their  Student uses spelling  The student uses their  The student’s work is spelling words to tell a words to tell a story that is spelling words in the test incomplete and has no clear and narrow story that detailed and relates to the but the student doesn’t clear purpose. The relates to the prompt prompt given. create a story, instead they writing doesn’t relate to given. The story shows a just put sentences together the classroom reading clear understanding of that use spelling words. books. learned information from their weekly spelling activities. Voice  The writing is creative,  The writing is creative and  The writing needs more  The writing is full of catches the audience’s easy to read but needs descriptive words to add simple phrases and the attention by adding their more flare. The student interest to the writing. writing has no clear point own point of view and needs to put their own The student relies on of view. This makes the making connections with point of view into the simple phrases in their reading difficult to read. the audience through their writing and needs to make story and doesn’t keep the  Student doesn’t use writing. more of a connection with reader’s interest. adjectives to describe what  The student uses many the audience through their  Student uses basic is happening in their adjectives within their writing. adjectives but needs to use writing. writing to enhance their  The student uses some stronger words to add writing. adjectives to help describe interest to their writing. events within writing. Sentence  Student uses different  Student uses different  The student relies on  The student doesn’t use Fluency kinds of sentences kinds of sentences statements to write their different types of correctly in their writing correctly in their writing prompt. The occasionally sentences within their including, statements, including, statements, use different types of writing or they use the commands, questions and commands, questions and sentences but need more sentences incorrectly. exclamations. exclamations. practice using the  The different types of sentences effectively. sentences make the reading full of interest and help the writer get his/her point across. Conventions  Student uses punctuation  Student uses punctuation  Student consistently uses  The student does not use correctly including end throughout their test but end punctuation but has correct end punctuation punctuation, commas and has mistakes in end many mistakes. The throughout the story. quotation marks (commas punctuation, commas and student does not use  The student does not use and quotation marks quotation marks. commas or quotation paragraphs in their story. expected after learned in Mistakes do not detract marks correctly. class). from the meaning of the  The student uses  Student uses paragraphs writing. paragraphs inconsistently correctly when writing.  Student uses paragraphs and/or incorrectly  Student uses multiple throughout writing with throughout the spelling meanings of spelling some mistakes in quiz. words when appropriate in organization. their writing. Standards Uses Proper  Student spells and uses each  Student spells and uses  The student misspells many  The student misspells English spelling word correctly. most spelling words spelling words and uses the and/or doesn’t use the grammar and Spelling of non-spelling correctly throughout the spelling words incorrectly. spelling words in their spelling words is consistently correct written spelling test. The student consistently story. Spelling words are throughout the written misspells non-spelling consistently used spelling test. words throughout the test. incorrectly. The student has misspelled non-spelling words throughout the test. Demonstrates  Student shows a clear  Student shows an  The student uses the  The student needs to study vocabulary understanding of the understanding of the vocabulary words within their words more so they acquisition vocabulary words. The vocabulary words that their writing but does not can learn the meanings of and writing demonstrates that demonstrates a clear show an understanding of the words and how to use application the student has mastered not understanding of meaning. the meaning of the word or them in their writing. only the meaning of the how to use it. They need word but how to use the more practice using the word within his/her writing. word in order to understand it.