English 1HOW WELL DO YOU WRITE CREATIVELY? (Have you interesting things to say and skilful ways of saying them?)Little Hero Stories

Exemplary / Proficient / Developing / Emerging / Insufficient Evidence
10-9 / 8-7 / 6-5 / 4-3 / 2-1
MAIN IDEAS, UNDERSTANDING, INSIGHT
How interesting, appropriate, and effective are your ideas / information / opinions?
HERO’S JOURNEY /
  • Writing vividly engages reader
  • Main points are fully relevant, substantial, comprehensive, accurate
  • Very imaginative/perceptive/ mature/ some subtlety
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  • Writing engages reader well
  • Main points are relevant, comprehensive and mostly accurate
  • Imaginative/perceptive/thoughtful
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  • Writing adequately engages reader
  • Main points show some development and are fairly comprehensive but may be narrow in range, incomplete, and/or superficial
  • Quite imaginative/ perceptive /thoughtful
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  • Writing has some interest for reader
  • Main points are developed but also basic and predictable, narrow in range, incomplete, and/or superficial
  • Some imagination/ perception/ thought
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  • Writing has little interest for the reader
  • Main points are thinly developed and/or inappropriate and/or stereotyped ideas and/or obvious gaps
  • Little imagination

ORGANISATION
How well do you structure your material, keep focused on the topic, and develop a clear line of thought?
HERO’S JOURNEY Order /
  • The student’s writing is well organized and true to the style of a storybook
  • The piece is put together in a very clear and logical way.
  • Engaging, creative introduction and firm, thought-provoking / memorable conclusion
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  • The student’s writing is generally organized and mostly true to the style of a storybook
  • The piece is clear and logical
  • Engaging introduction and firm conclusion
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  • The student’s writing is organized in places and sometimes true to style of a storybook
  • The piece is generally clear and logical
  • Adequate introduction and conclusion
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  • The student’s writing is somewhat disorganized and rarely true to style of a storybook
  • The piece has some logic
  • Weak introduction and conclusion
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  • The student’s writing lacks a logical order and/or is rarely true to style of a storybook
  • Very weak paragraphing
  • Introduction and conclusion present

5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
USE OF LANGUAGE and VOICE
How well have you chosen vocabulary, register, and tone, and written with a distinctive and appropriate “voice“? /
  • Completely appropriate, precise and concise often/vivid/rich/figurative/technical/imaginative/ adventurous use of word and expression
  • Completely appropriate register
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  • Appropriate and effective use of word and expression, with some signs of skillful choice
  • Appropriate register
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  • Mostly appropriate use of word and expression
  • Some lapses in appropriate register
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  • Adequate choices of word and expression but may be rather obvious/imprecise
  • Significant lapses in register
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  • Inappropriate use of words and expression. Often vague or dull
  • Inappropriate register or tone

SENTENCE STRUCTURE
Are all of your sentences complete and correct?
How well do you use an appropriate variety of sentence structures? /
  • No lapses in sentence structure. Sentences are all correctly structured – no run-ons or fragments
  • Sentence structures, lengths and openings are skillfully varied to support meaning/ mood/ purpose
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  • No significant lapses in sentence structure. Most sentences are correctly structured – no run-ons or fragments
  • Sentence structures, lengths and openings are varied to support meaning/ mood/ purpose
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  • Some lapses in sentence structure. Most sentences are correctly structured – occasional run-ons or fragments
  • Appropriate variety of sentence structures, lengths and openings
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  • Significant lapses in sentence structure including some fragments and/or run-ons
  • Some variety of sentence structures, lengths and openings
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  • Many significant lapses in sentence structure including several or many fragments and/or run-ons
  • Little sentence structure

MECHANICS &
APPEARANCE
How accurate and helpful are your spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar?
How effective is the layout? /
  • No (or very few) mechanical errors
  • Layout/ word-processing supports the content (page numbers)
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  • Few mechanical errors
  • Layout/word- mostly supports the content
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  • Occasional mechanical errors
  • Layout/word-processing supports the content
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  • Some mechanical errors which do not hinder the reader unduly
  • Layout/ word-processing sometimes supports the content
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  • Frequent mechanical errors which significantly hinder the reader
  • Layout/ word-processing rarely supports the content