Rubric for Assessing Writing Samples
| CATEGORY | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Capitalization | The sentence begins with a capital letter and other proper nouns are all capitalized, lower case used appropriately | The sentence begins with a capital letter, lower case used appropriately. | The sentence begins with a capital letter, and lower case is used appropriately at times. | The sentence still does not begin with a capital letter, and lower case is used inappropriately. |
| Structure | The sentence is a complete thought, makes sense and includes details. | The sentence is a complete thought and makes sense. (subject and predicate) | The sentence is a fragment, but makes sense. (missing subject or predicate) | The sentence is confusing and incomplete. |
| Spacing | The sentence is easily legible with appropriate finger spacing between words, written left to right. | The sentence is legible. Usually appropriate finger spacing between words, mostly written left to right. | The sentence has some appropriate finger spacing between words, some of the words written left to right. | The sentence has no distinguishable spaces between words, no logical sequence (left to right or top to bottom). |
| Punctuation | Multiple sentences end with proper punctuation in the appropriate position (on the line). | The sentence ends with the proper punctuation. | The sentence ends with the proper punctuation, and other incorrect usage. | The sentence has no proper end punctuation. |
