K-12 Student & Teacher Friendly Common Core and PARCC Aligned Writing Rubrics

Using a similar rubric across grades increases the validity and reliability of student growth comparisons. This K-12 set of Common Core aligned writing rubrics includes one set of writing rubric sets for each grade K-8 as well as rubrics for 9-10 and 11-12 grade band sets. Within each grade level and grade-band set is a teacher friendly rubric aligned to the Common Core Standards as well as a student friendly checklist. In addition to being aligned to the Common Core Standards, the rubrics are also aligned to PARCC's most recently published Condensed Writing Rubric for Prose Constructed Response Grades 6-11 (July 29, 2014). Dr. Dea's rubric is a framework for evaluating argument, informative, and narrative writing. Following PARCC's expanded rubric form, Dr. Dea's rubric delineates Common Core descriptors among five criteria categories: Reading Comprehension, Writing Development, Writing Organization, Clarity of Language, and Language Conventions. Unlike the PARCC rubric, Dr. Dea's rubric series provides a tool for both the teacher and the students: a one page self-evaluation checklist for the student and a one-page evaluation rubric for the teacher. Additionally, Dr. Dea's rubric embeds Common Core grade-level language standards specifying grammar and conventions expectations. This set of rubrics is intended for single teacher use at each grade with the right to reproduce the documents for classroom/student distribution.