Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Toolkit
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
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Pare: Designing Scoring Rubrics for Your Classroom
What do you know about designing scoring rubrics for your classroom? This site features an article that details how and when to use rubrics in the assessment process. It also gives examples of rubrics used in classrooms.
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St. Monica Early Learning Center: Beginning Writing
Check out this early learning center rubric for writing. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative site.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Build a Rubric
Rubrics provide students with clear expectations and consistent feedback. Build a customizable rubric that can be used for any writing activity your class might be completing.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Essay Writing Rubrics
A collection of essay assessment rubrics are provide on this learning module. Several rubrics for narrative essays, persuasive essays, and research papers are provided on this site.
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Spanish Partial Immersion Program Rubrics
This site provides rubrics for assessing the writing and speaking skills of students in partial-immersion programs. Rubrics are listed both in Spanish and English.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Traditions: Book of Wisdom Project Rubric [Pdf]
This one-page PDF is a rubric for the "Book of Wisdom Project," which requires students to write two original fables and locate and compile a list of proverbs/sayings, catagorize and illustrate them, and write about the authors. Search...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Lesson to Prepare for State Writing Test: Trait Rubics Vocabulary
This instructional activity focuses on teaching the vocabulary used in the rubrics for 4 of the 6 Traits of Writing. It requires students to learn the vocabulary used in the rubrics and to define the traits so they understand what is...
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Pare: Scoring Rubrics: What, When and How?
Discover more about scoring rubrics when you explore this informative article. The author describes the different types of scoring rubrics and begins to explain why scoring rubrics are useful and provides a process for developing scoring...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Sample Rubric for Grading Student Writing
All written work should be assessed using a rubric. Using a set of criteria linked to standards not only allows for uniform evaluation, but helps students understand what is important about an assignment and encourages them to reflect on...
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R Campus: Rubric Studio & Rubric Gallery
This is a great free rubrics site. The Rubric Studio is a comprehensive rubric design and assessment tool. Teachers can build simple rubrics or complex rubrics with multiple sections and flexible number of rows and columns. In addition,...
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Allwritewithme: Rubrics & Checklists for Fourth Grade Informative Writing
This collection of rubrics and checklists can be used for formative and summative assessments. Students can use many of these to self-assess during various phases of the informative writing process, and teachers may use these to guide...
Thinkport Education
Write Now: Arguing for Change
Students are presented with a scenario of bullying and are asked to write an "argument for change" as a way to get classmates to stop bullying. In preparing their argumentative piece, students are guided to examine fiction and nonfiction...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Understanding Key Details by Using Pancakes for Breakfast
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will be read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie DePaola in order to understand and describe people, places, things and events in a text. They will create a book by drawing or...
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Rubi Star: Create Rubrics for Your Project Based Learning
RubiStar is a tool that helps teachers develop rubrics. After students have done the project and the rubric has been used to grade it, you can enter the data into RubiStar to determine which items are problematic for the class as well.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Revising & Editing: Understanding Rubrics
Watch two videos and download content to learn more about using rubrics for both evaluation and instruction in the classroom.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Oral Presentation Rubric
A printable four-point rubric for use when evaluating oral presentations. The rubric focuses on the specific areas of delivery, content and organization, and enthusiasm and audience awareness. Directions on how to use this rubric as well...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Venn Diagram Rubric
A printable three-leveled rubric for evaluating a Venn diagram in the areas of test support of comparisons, placement of statements, and number of quality statements. Directions on how to use this rubric as well as lists of teaching...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Grading Rubric for the Biography [Pdf]
A rubric to use with a biographical writing assignment. Students can receive up to four points in eight different areas including a creative title, a clear organizational plan, interesting graphic elements, voice, usage and mechanics,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising Techniques
This tutorial begins with a PowerPoint presentation, "What to Look for When Revising," which is followed by information about the importance of the teacher or professor's notes. It also includes a PDF revision checklist, a peer editing...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Writing a Reverse Outline
This slideshow lesson focuses on writing a reverse outline as a post writing strategy for assessing your paper for weak or missing aspects. It explains how to create the outline using a rubric if available and provides a skeletal example...
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Wiki Education: For Instructors
This site offers extensive resources for teachers for understanding how Wikipedia works and how to incorporate Wikipedia assignments into their teaching. Teachers can explore sample assignments and develop their own. Includes sample...
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Campbell County School District:technology Rubrics [Pdf]
This is a PDF of two four-leveled grading rubrics for use with fifth-grade students - one for a multimedia presentation and one for a word processing/desktop publishing project.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature Composition Project Rubric [Pdf]
This is a one-page PFD rubric for an AP literature composition project which could be used as a rubric for any project.