4/Show-Me Your Opinion/ELA

SHOW-MEOPINION WRITING CHECKLIST

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DIRECTIONS: Use the writing checklist below to review your opinion writing. After using the checklist, make a star and a wish about your opinion writing.

Ideas / Introduces a topic or text clearly (4.W1a)
Clearly states an opinion (4.W1a)
Voice / Supports a point of view. (4.W1)
Produces clear and coherent writing. (4.W4)
Appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (4.W4)
Organization / Creates an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose (4.W1a)
Provides reasons supported by facts and details (4.W1b)
Provides a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented (4.W1d)
Word Choice / Links opinions and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition) (4.W1c)
Use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why) (4.L1)
Forms and uses the progressive (e.g., I was walking; I am walking; I will be walking) verb tenses (4.L1)
Uses modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey various conditions) (4.L1)
Correctly uses frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two, there, their)
Conventions / Uses correct capitalization (4.L2)
Uses commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text when appropriate (4.L2)
Uses a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence when appropriate (4.L2)
Spells grade-appropriate words correctly(4.L2)
Sentence
Fluency / Produces complete sentences (4.L1)
Orders adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns (e.g., a small red bag rather than a red small bag) (4.L1)
Forms and uses prepositional phrases (4.L1)

STAR and WISH: What did you do well (star)? What can you improve (exclamation)?

SHOW-ME OPINION WRITING SCORING GUIDE

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4- Exceeding / 3-Mastery / 2-Nearing Mastery / 1-Does Not Meet
Ideas
W.4.1.a / Introduction of topic or text is clear and catches reader’s attention / Introduces a topic or text / Introduction of topic or text is unclear / Lacks introduction.
Ideas
W.4.1.a / Opinion is complex and clear / Clearly states an opinion / Opinion is unclear / No evidence of an opinion
Organization
W.4.1.a / Creates an organizational structure in which related ideas are logically grouped in paragraphs to support the writer’s purpose / Creates an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped in paragraphs to support the writer’s purpose / Creates an organizational structure in which reasons are given / Lacks organizational structure
Organization
W.4.1.b / Provides reasons that are logically supported by facts and details in own words / Provides reasons supported by facts and details in own words / Provides reasons that support the opinion in own words / Little or no reasons to support the opinion in own words
Organization
W.4.1.c / Links opinion and reasons using a variety of grade level words, phrases, and/or clauses / Links opinions and reasons using words and phrases / Links opinion and reasons using simple words (e.g. first, also, next) and phrases / No linking words between opinion and reasons
Organization
W.4.1.d / Provides a well-developed concluding statement or section related to the opinion / Provides a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented / Provides a concluding statement or section unrelated to the opinion presented / Provides no concluding statement to the opinion presented
Voice
W.4.4 / Clear awareness of purpose and audience / Awareness of purpose and audience / Unclear awareness of purpose and audience. / Little to no awareness of audience and purpose

Sources Consulted:

  • Joplin Schools Writing Handbook
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  • South Bay Unition School District
  • Common Core State Standards

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