K-2 Writing Rubrics


Voice

Word Choice

Ideas & Content

Organization

Sentence Fluency

Conventions

K-2 Rubric - Voice

Number

Level

Looks Like

1

Experimenting

  • Communicates feeling with color, shape, and line in drawing
  • Work is similar to everyone else's
  • Ambiguous response to task
  • Awareness of audience not present

2

Emerging

  • Hints of voice present in words and phrases
  • Looks different from most others
  • Energy/mood is present
  • Treatment of topic is predictable
  • Awareness is fuzzy - could be anyone, anywhere

3

Developing

  • Expresses some predictable feelings
  • Moments of individual sparkle, but then hides
  • Repetition of familiar ideas reduces energy
  • Awareness that writing will be read by someone else
  • Reader has limited connection to writer

4

Capable

  • Writing is individual and espressive
  • Individual perspective becomes evident
  • Personal treatment of a standard topic
  • Writes to convey a story or idea to the reader
  • Attempts non-standard point of view

5

Experienced

  • Uses text to elicit a variety of emotions
  • Takes some risks to say more than what is expected
  • Point of view is evident
  • Writes with a clear sense of audience
  • Cares deeply about the topic

6


Return to Top

Back to Home Page