Sentence Rubric

* / ** / ***
• No capital letter
• No full stop
• Doesn’t make sense
• Incomplete / • A full stop at the end
• A capital letter at the start
• Makes sense
• Simple words (vocab)
• Includes 1 noun
• Includes 1 verb / • Extra information
• Includes 2 nouns
• Includes a describing word (adjective)
• An interesting sentence
• Includes 2 punctuation marks
• Makes sense / • Interesting words
• Joining words
(conjunctions)
• More detail
• Expanded sentences
• Extra punctuation
• Phrase about a noun
• Phrase about a verb
• Makes sense

Sentence Rubric

Description

Rubrics are used as part of students’ personal learning goals. The students and teachers in Year 2 at St Mary’s, Williamstown constructed the rubrics. To compile the rubrics the teachers showed the students work both of a ‘high’ and a ‘low’ standard and asked them to identify the characteristics that made the higher standard, better work. These were then classified into the star levels. The students use the rubrics to rate their own work / sentences as: no-star, 1-star, 2-star or 3-star. Then they identify what they need to do to their work/sentence to make it a higher star level. This articulation by the students is the most powerful part of using the rubrics. They also use the rubric to discuss what other students pieces of work need to include to move them to the higher level.

Print onto cardboard, laminate & cut. Provide each student with a rubric to use, while writing.