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Teaching Tips: Writing Assessment Tools

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Title: Teaching Tips: Writing Assessment Tools
Description: These sites include rubrics, scoring guides, and checklists for assessing student writing. Ideas for peer editing and student self-evaluation are included. Several of these assessment tools can be used as they are while others can be constructed online.
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Resource Links: Self Evaluation Rubric
Students can use this rubric to focus on different aspects of their writing.

TeAch-nology Writing Rubric Generator
Simply add the name of the school, assignment, and teacher to generate a ready-to-use rubric for grading writing assignments.

TeAch-nology Paragraph Writing Rubric Generator
Add the name of the school, assignment, and teacher for a ready-to-use rubric for grading paragraph writing.

6 + 1 Traits
This nine-page PDF file offers a writing analysis tool for older students that focuses on organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, ideas and content, and more.

SCORE Rubrics
This table contains rubrics for writing as well as a few others.

Create a Printable Checklist
Make your own personal checklist for assessing student writing by selecting items to include.

Peer Edit Response Form
Students complete this editing form on a peer's writing.

Paragraph Evaluation
This simple chart in a one-page PDF file can be used to assess a student's paragraph writing.

Peer Editing Questions
This is a series of questions that students can answer about each other's writing during peer editing.

Everybody's a Critic
This site gives examples of good and bad peer reviews, then offers you the chance to do your own.

Peer Review Workshop
Here are lots of ideas and suggestions for implementing peer reviewing in the classroom.

Writing Assessment Traits
Teachers can look at this form and adapt some of these ideas for assessing students' writing.

Adapted Writing Rubric Pre-school-2nd
This rubric is for assessing writing by students in the younger grades.

Sample Conference Questions for Developing Writers
Read through this list for tips on what to ask students as they plan and engage in writing.

Sample Writing Record
This form can be used for teacher's to write notes about students' writing.

Education Standards: MO Standards:
1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.10, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.6, 1, 2, 3, 4


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Reviewed December 7, 2004.

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