Teaching Tips: Writing Assessment Tools
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.
Grades
- 3,
- 4,
- 5,
- 6,
- 7,
- 8
Links
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Self Evaluation Rubric
Students can use this rubric to focus on different aspects of their writing. NOTE: This site contains ads.
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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. NOTE: This site contains ads.
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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. NOTE: This site contains ads.
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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.
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SCORE Rubrics
This table contains rubrics for writing as well as a few others.
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Create a Printable Checklist
Make your own personal checklist for assessing student writing by selecting items to include.
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Peer Edit Response Form
Students complete this editing form on a peer’s writing.
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Peer Editing Questions
This is a series of questions that students can answer about each other’s writing during peer editing.
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Everybody's a Critic
This site gives examples of good and bad peer reviews, then offers you the chance to do your own.
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Peer Review Workshop
Here are lots of ideas and suggestions for implementing peer reviewing in the classroom.
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Sample Conference Questions for Developing Writers
Read through this list for tips on what to ask students as they plan and engage in writing.
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Sample Writing Record
This form can be used for teacher’s to write notes about students’ writing.
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Thinkfinity: Writing Assessment Tools
This search engine listed rubrics on various areas of writing. NOTE: This site has links led to external sites.
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