Looking For Middle School Writing Rubrics?

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Edmond Public Schools has created writing rubics for their middle schools and kindly loaded them onto their website where we can use them.

From EPS site:

Closely correlated to the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test (OCCT) Analytic Writing Rubric, Edmond’s writing rubrics are used to set expectations for, to guide, and to assess student writing. The following rubrics should, therefore, be used by students during prewriting/planning, drafting, revising, and editing/proofreading — in other words, in all of the stages of the writing process. Before the final copy is turned in, shared, or published, the rubrics can be valuable tools when used in peer editing — with parents, classmates, siblings, etc. The rubrics should then be used by teachers to assess student papers.

You can view and download the rubrics here.

If you need more generalized rubrics that are not tied to a specific set of standards, try the rubrics from  the Literacy Design Collaborative, which you can download here.

Related topics: Teaching Writing

About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle taught secondary ELA in public schools for 10 years. She served as an award-winning journalist before transitioning into education and is now Assistant Director of the OU Writing Center and a teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project. Michelle co-edited the Oklahoma English Journal for five years. She is a PhD candidate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. She started reThink ELA LLC as a teacher blog in 2012.

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