30 Minute Narrative Challenge Writing Assessment Rubric

TITLE OF WRITING BEING ASSESSED: ________________________________________________

Highlight where you believe your level of achievement is for each of the 7 assessment areas below:
Level 2
Well Below
Standard
Ideas

Level 3
Below Standard

many
simple ideas,
related to topic

Level 4
At Standard

several
relevant ideas with
more detail

compl
ex and elaborated
ideas

writing
structure and
language are
appropriate to
purpose with more
detail

writing
structure and
language are
appropriate to
purpose include
detail and are mostly
controlled

controll
ed ideas which make
sense but paragraphs
are not actually used

contro
lled ideas which
make sense are
organised into
paragraphs

OR

Structure
and
Language

Organisation

Vocabulary

2 or 3
ideas with some detail

writing
structure and
language are
appropriate to
purpose

groupe
d and sequenced
ideas, writing generally
flows and generally
makes sense (may be
brief)

range
of everyday words
and phrases with a
few precise words for
detail.

Sentence
Structure

beginn
ing to include variety
of sentence types
(simple, compound,
complex)

Punctuation

some
correct use of
punctuation such as
full-stops, capital
letters

May
attempt contractions
and commas

variety
of precise words and
phrases to add
information and/or
interest

includes
a variety of correct
sentence types (simple,
compound, complex),
and more complex
sentences are used

most
punctuation is correct
and some other
punctuation ha s been
used correctly such as
commas and
contractions
OR

appro
priate words and
phrases to enhance
meaning

sentenc
es vary in structure
and length with
some used
deliberately for
effect

punct
uation is correct and
some complex
punctuation is
attempted such as
direct speech, commas
for phrases and
clauses

All sentence punctuation

is correct but no other
punctuation is used

Spelling

Spells a
range of personal and
high-frequency words
correctly such as school,
where, friend, outside,
playing

May
attempt words with
more than two syllables.

Spells a
wide range of personal
and high-frequency words
correctly.

Attempt
s difficult words.

Spells
high-frequency words
and some difficult
words correctly such
as weird, through

Level5- 6
Above Standard

deliberat
ely selected, effective
and original ideas, with
elaboration which show
reflection on the wider
world

writing
structure and language
are appropriate to
purpose, include detail
and are mostly
controlled and
effective

Paragraph
s support the
development of text

Level 6
paragraphs are
deliberately
structured to direct the
reader

Ideas are
linked effectively
within and across
paragraphs

Precise
words and phrases are
consistently used to
enhance meaning and are
used for effect

Sentences
are deliberately crafted
to impact and engage

Sentence
and other punctuation are
correct and complex
punctuation is used
correctly such as,
hyphens, colons,
parentheses

Punctuatio
n assists meaning

Level 6
Controlled use of
punctuation to enhance
meaning with no errors

Spells
high-frequency words and
a range of difficult
words correctly, with few
or no errors.

Self-Assessment and evaluation:

My narrative was okay at the beginning but as it went on it kept getting more basic and way more basic than I am capable of.

Peer feedback and feed-forward: Jo

The start of the story which is introduction, hook me into the story. If there is more time and you could finish the story I really want
to read it.