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Narrative Writing |
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Excellent, focused narrative;
well elaborated with quality
details |
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| Good, focused narrative; elaborated with telling details |
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| Narrative focused; adequate elaboration |
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| Generally focused narrative; some supporting details |
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| Sometimes unfocused narrative; needs more supporting details |
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| Rambling narrative; lacks development and detail |
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| Strong beginning, middle,
and end; appropriate order
words |
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| Coherent beginning, middle, and end; some order words |
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| Beginning, middle, and end easily identifiable |
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| Recognizable beginning, middle, and end; some order words |
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| Little direction from beginning to end; few order words |
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| Lacks beginning, middle, end; incorrect or no order words |
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| Writer closely involved; engaging personality |
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| Pleasant but not compelling voice |
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| Sincere voice but not fully engaged |
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| Little writer involvement, personality |
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| Careless writing with no feeling |
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| Vivid, precise words that bring story to life |
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| Clear words to bring story to life |
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| Some specific word pictures |
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| Language adequate but lacks color |
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| Generally limited or redundant language |
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| Vague, dull, or misused words |
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| Excellent variety of sentences; natural rhythm |
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| Varied lengths, styles; generally smooth |
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| Correct sentences with some variations in style |
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| Correctly constructed sentences; some variety |
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| May have simple, awkward, or wordy sentences; little variety |
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Choppy; many incomplete
or run-on sentences |
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| Excellent control; few or no errors |
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| No serious errors to affect understanding |
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| General mastery of conventions but some errors |
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| Reasonable control; few distracting errors |
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Weak control; enough
errors to affect
understanding |
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| Many errors that prevent understanding |
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