| Criteria | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opinion Writing | Student strongly supports their opinions with clear evidence, well-organized paragraphs, transitions, and a strong conclusion. | Student supports their opinions with evidence, paragraphs are mostly well-organized with some transitions and a conclusion. | Student attempts to support opinions with evidence, but paragraphs lack organization, transitions, or a conclusion. | Student struggles to support opinions with evidence, paragraphs lack organization, transitions, or a conclusion. |
| Develops Ideas | Student effectively uses multiple quality text evidence in every paragraph to support ideas. | Student uses some text evidence in paragraphs to support ideas. | Student attempts to use text evidence but lacks consistency in supporting ideas. | Student struggles to use text evidence to support ideas. |
| Literature 5.2 | Student effectively summarizes the literary text. | Student summarizes the literary text with some clarity. | Student attempts to summarize the literary text but lacks clarity. | Student struggles to summarize the literary text. |
| Literature 5.3 | Student clearly describes characters and uses strong text evidence to support ideas. | Student describes characters with some text evidence to support ideas. | Student attempts to describe characters but lacks text evidence to support ideas. | Student struggles to describe characters and lacks text evidence to support ideas. |
| Literature 5.2 (Conflict) | Student clearly describes conflicts in the story and provides detailed explanations of how conflicts were solved. | Student describes conflicts in the story and provides explanations of how conflicts were solved. | Student attempts to describe conflicts but lacks detailed explanations of how conflicts were solved. | Student struggles to describe conflicts and lacks explanations of how conflicts were solved. |
| Revision | Student revises and edits effectively using collaboration and technology to strengthen writing. | Student revises and edits with some collaboration and technology to improve writing. | Student attempts to revise and edit but lacks collaboration and technology to strengthen writing. | Student struggles to revise and edit to improve writing. |