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Grade 5 Instruction Writing ChecklistCOMPOSING/WRITTEN EXPRESSION4321CENTRAL IDEA Clear, consistent focus on a central idea Clear awareness of intended audienceReasonably consistent focus on central ideaAwareness of intended audience Inconsistent focus on central ideaLimited awareness of audience Little or no focus on a central ideaNo awareness of audienceORGANIZATIONANDUNITYFollows a logical organizational planStays consistently on topic with few digressionsStrong beginning, middle, and endEach paragraph has a strong topic sentence focusing on the main ideaEffectively uses transitional words and/or phrases to connect thoughts Evidence of an organizational planStays mainly on topic and may have a few digressions Has a beginning, middle, and endEach paragraph has a topic sentence somewhat focused on the main ideaUses transitional words and/or phrases to connect thoughts Inconsistent organizational planStrays from the main topic and has many digressionsSome evidence or an attempt at a beginning, middle, and endEach paragraph has an inconsistent or weak topic sentenceInconsistent use of transitional words and/or phrases to connect thoughts Little or no organization planMain topic not evident No clear beginning, middle, and endEach paragraph does not have a topic sentence with little or no indication of the main ideaLittle or no evidence of transitional words and/or phrases to connect thoughts ELABORATION AND DETAILSFully elaborated using facts, definitions, opinions, quotations, details, and/or other examples to support the central ideaSomewhat elaborated with sufficient use of facts, definitions, opinions, quotations, details, and/or other examples to support the central ideaContains limited use of facts, definitions, opinions, quotations, details, and/or other examples to support the central ideaContains little or no elaboration, lack of details and/or examples SENTENCEFORMATION AND STRUCTUREIncludes a variety of sentence lengths and beginnings Includes some sentence variety in lengths and beginnings Includes little or no sentence variety in lengths and beginningsNo sentences of various lengths or beginnings FLOWRhythmic flow resulting from purposeful sentence variety, clauses, and transitionsSome rhythmic flow and sentence variety with some effective clauses and transitionsUneven rhythmic flow, limited sentence variety, repetitive sentence patterns, little use of clauses and transitionsNo rhythmic flow or sentence variety, no use of clauses or transitionsWORD CHOICEContains highly specific word choice, descriptive language, and selected informationAppropriate, purposeful tone Evidence of writer’s voiceContains specific word choice, descriptive language, and selected informationEvidence of toneSome evidence of writer’s voiceLimited word choice, descriptive language and selected informationInconsistent tone Limited evidence of writer’s voiceLittle or no specific word choice, descriptive language, and selected informationLittle or no toneNo evidence of writer’s voice ................
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