Story Writing Rubric

Name: ___________________________________

Date: ____________________________________

Title of Writing: _______________________________________

CATEGORY 4/EXCELLENT 3/GOOD 2/SATISFACTORY

1/NEEDS WORK

Ideas My story makescomplete sense.Writing is clearand easy tounderstand.

My writing isprettyunderstandable .One idea may beout of place.

My story is hardto follow and mystory issomewhatconfusing.

The reader will not beable to understand thiswriting. My ideas donot make sense.

Organization My beginningcreates interest,my middle iswell-developed,and the end issatisfying.

My story has aclear andinterestingbeginning,middle, and end.

My story has aclear beginning,middle, and endbut needs detailsto make itinteresting.

My story does nothave a clearbeginning, middle, orend. My story is hardto follow.

Word Choice My writing has alot of powerfuland excitingwords toenhance themeaning.

My writing hassome powerfuland excitingwords.

My writing has afew powerfuland excitingwords.

My writing has nopowerful and excitingwords. It is boring toread.

Fluency I used completesentences thatare varied instyle and length.My sentencesflow together.

I used completesentences that arevaried in length.Some of thesentences flowtogether.

I used only shortcompletesentences. Mystory does notflow together inmost places.

I used incompletesentences. My storydoes not flow togetherat all.

Conventions I edited mywriting and it isfree of spelling,punctuation, andcapitalizationerrors.

I edited mywriting and it stillcontains someerrors.

I edited mywriting and itcontains a lot ofspelling,capitalization,and punctuationerrors.

I still have manyspelling,capitalization, andpunctuation errors inmy writing. It is hardto read and understandmy writing.