Georgia Milestones Grade 7 ELA EOG Writing Rubrics: Four-Point Holistic Rubric, Genre: Narrative

4 points

The student's response is a well-developed narrative that fully develops a real or imagined experience based on text as a stimulus. • Effectively establishes a situation and point of view and introduces a narrator and/or characters • Organizes an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically • Effectively uses narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop rich, interesting experiences, events, and/or characters • Uses a variety of words and phrases to convey the sequence of events and signal shifts in one time frame or setting to another • Uses precise words, phrases, and sensory language consistently and effectively to convey experiences or events and capture the action • Provides a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events • Integrates ideas and details from source material effectively • Has very few or no errors in usage and/or conventions that interfere with meaning*

3 points

The student's response is a complete narrative that develops a real or imagined experience based on text as a stimulus. • Establishes a situation and introduces one or more characters • Organizes events in a clear, logical order • Uses narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters • Uses words and/or phrases to indicate sequence of events and signal shifts in one time frame or setting to another • Uses words, phrases, and details to capture the action and convey experiences and events • Provides an appropriate conclusion • Integrates some ideas and/or details from source material • Has a few minor errors in usage and/or conventions that interfere with meaning*

2 points

The student's response is an incomplete or oversimplified narrative based on text as a stimulus. • Introduces a vague situation and at least one character • Organizes events in a sequence but with some gaps or ambiguity • Attempts to use some narrative technique, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters • Uses occasional signal words inconsistently and ineffectively to indicate sequence of events and signal shifts in one time frame or setting to another • Uses some words or phrases inconsistently and ineffectively to convey experiences and events and capture the action • Provides a weak or ambiguous conclusion • Attempts to integrate ideas or details from source material • Has frequent errors in usage and conventions that sometimes interfere with meaning*

1 point

The student's response provides evidence of an attempt to write a narrative based on text as a stimulus. • Response is a summary of the story • Provides a weak or minimal introduction of a situation or character • May be too brief to demonstrate a complete sequence of events or signal shifts in one time frame or setting to another • Shows little or no attempt to use dialogue, description, and pacing to develop experiences, events, and/or characters • Uses words that are inappropriate, overly simple, or unclear • Provides few, if any, words that convey experiences, or events, or signal shifts in one time frame or setting to another • Provides a minimal or no conclusion • May use few, if any, ideas or details from source material • Has frequent major errors in usage and conventions that interfere with meaning*

0 points

The student will receive a condition code for various reasons: • Blank • Copied • Too Limited to Score/Illegible/Incomprehensible • Non-English/Foreign Language • Off Topic/Off Task/Offensive