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St. Monica Early Learning Center: Beginning Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Check out this early learning center rubric for writing. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative site.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: A Sample Rubric for Grading Student Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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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Spanish Partial Immersion Program Rubrics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Editing Techniques: Writing a Reverse Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Scholastic

Scholastic: Poetry Writing

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This site comes from the Scholastic website and provides a teacher's guide to writing poetry. This lesson plan is put together very well and provides an outline of the project, learning objectives, assessment information and much more.
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Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.
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Pare: Scoring Rubrics: What, When and How?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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NC State University

Ncsu: Rubrics & Evaluations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate rubric files for book reports, multimedia projects, and the like can be downloaded at this site for assessment in your classroom.
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NC State University

Ncsu: Rubrics & Evaluations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate rubric files for book reports, multimedia projects, and the like can be downloaded at this site for assessment in your classroom.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: 4th Grade Narrative Writing Rubric [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
A rubric to use when writing and evaluating a 4th-grade narrative. Essays can receive anywhere from one to four points in each of the following areas: Organization/Progression, Development of Ideas, and Use of Language/Conventions.
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Other

Essay tagger.com: Common Core Rubric Creation Tool

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Common Core State Standards are broken down into manageable, assessable elements in order to make it easier to create real-world Common Core-aligned rubrics that will work in the classroom. Teachers can pick which elements they want...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Crucible: Final Assessment Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on writing a critical analysis essay over The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It features information about writing the introduction, body, and conclusion; a list of topics to choose from, and the essay requirements. Links...
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Other

Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]

For Teachers K Standards
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: 6+1 Traits

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework.
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: 6+1 Traits

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site focuses on the 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework.
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Other

Pare: Developing Classroom Performance Assessment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Check out this informative article featuring information on recommendations for developing classroom performance assessments and scoring rubrics. Teachers will find this article extremely informative.
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Other

Rubi Star: Create Rubrics for Your Project Based Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Rubric: Six Trait Assessment for Beginning Writers

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Teachers will find this rubric useful in the classroom as a means of assessing student writing skills. It has a printer friendly version.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Building Reading Comprehension Through Think Alouds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Think-Aloud method has be shown to improve information retention. The lesson plan contained within this site models for teachers how to model this strategy. There is a rubric included for assessment.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Compare and Contrast Rubric

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students and teachers can assess their own writing with this compare and contrast rubric.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Student Writing Checklist

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Excellent printable writing checklist that helps students proofread their pieces and pay attention to elements of strong writing.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Arbiter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Determine your standards (logic, creativity, structure, etc.) when assessing student writing. Evaluate three essays using an analytic or holistic rubric and see how your standards compare with your peers.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a comprehensive unit introducing speech including key words, lessons, discussion of audience, purpose, analyzing speeches, speech components, planning a speech, quizzes, and a final assessment with rubric.
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Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.