Not Yet Approaches Expectations Meets Expectations Advanced
Scoring 1. 2. 3. 4 Elements 1 2 3 5 5 5 Addresses prompt Addresses prompt appropriately Addresses all aspects of prompt Attempts to address prompt, appropriately and establishes and maintains a clear, steady Focus appropriately with a consistently but lacks focus or is off-task. a position, but focus is focus. Provides a generally strong focus and convincing position. uneven. convincing position. Attempts to establish a Establishes and maintains a Establishes a credible claim. Controlling claim, but lacks a clear Establishes a claim. Makes substantive and credible claim or Develops claim and counter claims Idea purpose. Makes no mention note of counter claims. proposal. Develops claims and fairly. of counter claims. counter claims fairly and thoroughly. Attempts to reference Presents information from Accurately presents details from Accurately and effectively presents reading materials to develop reading materials relevant to Reading/ reading materials relevant to the important details from reading response, but lacks the purpose of the prompt Research purpose of the prompt to develop materials to develop argument or connections or relevance to with minor lapses in accuracy argument or claim. claim. the purpose of the prompt. or completeness. Presents appropriate details Attempts to provide details in to support and develop the Presents thorough and detailed response to the prompt, but focus, controlling idea, or Presents appropriate and sufficient information to effectively support lacks sufficient development claim, with minor lapses in details to support and develop the and develop the focus, controlling or relevance to the purpose Development the reasoning, examples, or focus, controlling idea, or claim. idea, or claim. Makes a clarifying of the prompt. Makes no explanations. Makes a Makes a relevant connection to connection(s) that illuminates connections or a connection connection with a weak or clarify argument or claim. argument and adds depth to that is irrelevant to argument unclear relationship to reasoning. or claim. argument or claim. Maintains an organizational Uses an appropriate Maintains an appropriate structure that intentionally and organizational structure organizational structure to effectively enhances the Attempts to organize Organizatio for development of address specific requirements presentation of information as ideas, but lacks control of n reasoning and logic, with of the prompt. Structure required by the specific prompt. structure. minor lapses in structure reveals the reasoning and logic Structure enhances development and/or coherence. of the argument. of the reasoning and logic of the argument. Conventions Attempts to demonstrate Demonstrates an uneven Demonstrates a command of Demonstrates and maintains a well- standard English command of standard standard English conventions and developed command of standard conventions, but lacks English conventions and cohesion, with few errors. English conventions and cohesion, cohesion and control of cohesion. Response includes language and with few errors. Response includes grammar, usage, and tone appropriate to the audience, language and tone consistently mechanics. Sources are used Uses language and tone with purpose, and specific requirements appropriate to the audience, without citation. some inaccurate, of the prompt. Cites sources using purpose, and specific requirements inappropriate, or uneven appropriate format with only minor of the prompt. Consistently cites features. Inconsistently cites errors. sources using appropriate format. sources. Attempts to include Briefly notes disciplinary disciplinary content in content relevant to the Accurately presents disciplinary Integrates relevant and accurate Content argument, but understanding prompt; shows basic or content relevant to the prompt disciplinary content with thorough Understandin of content is weak; content is uneven understanding of with sufficient explanations that explanations that demonstrate in- g irrelevant, inappropriate, or content; minor errors in demonstrate understanding. depth understanding. inaccurate. explanation.