Reading and writing are essential skills for literacy development. Trouble is – many teachers are struggling to plan their literacy lessons. Here at SUPERRUBRIC, we like to take an assessment-leading approach. In other words, we use analytic rubrics for reading and writing to guide and inform our instruction.
Analytic rubrics for reading and writing are great tools for guiding and informing instruction because:
- rubrics for reading and writing provide clear starting points for where students are
- rubrics help to inform strengths and areas for growth
- rubrics (when combined with our gradebook) can show your where your class is as a whole
- rubrics for reading and writing help parents and students better understand their grades
Now that we have some context for why teachers use rubrics to guide instruction let’s break down 3 rubrics to use for elementary reading and writing.
3 Rubrics for Elementary Reading & Writing
As teachers, we know that reading and writing aren’t as simple as putting a book and pencil in front of a student. Students need to be explicitly taught each literacy skill. Depending on the class you have, teachers might be working on a variety of skills in the balanced literacy approach.
Our goal with SUPERRUBRICS (and *SUPER CHECKLISTS) is to help simplify the balanced literacy approach.
In this list, we will provide you with 3 rubrics to use for elementary reading and writing. With each rubric, we will provide a short breakdown of how you can use this assessment tool to guide your instruction. Let’s get into it.
1. Book Report Rubric
Book reports are one of the best tasks you can provide students with. Not only do book reports help to reinforce lots of independent, group, and shared reading, but they are also a very important task for developing comprehension skills.
Our book report rubric focuses on 5 key assessment criteria: Book Summary, Critical assessment of text, presentation of ideas, use of language and conventions, and word choice.
We recommend that teachers use each of these assessment criteria to guide their instruction. Click here for a detailed description of our book report rubric.
Use the Book Report Rubric Maker – Click here.
2. Journal Entry Rubric
Journals are wonderful creative writing tasks that provide students with minimal prompts and allow students to practice expression. Rubrics are a great addition to journal writing because they help students better understand how they can structure their writing.
The SUPERRUBRIC journal entry helps students center on 5 key assessment criteria: Content and clarity, structure and organization, detail and voice, use of language and conventions, and word choice.
Click here to make your free Journal Entry rubric.
3. Reading Response Rubric
Reading responses is a very popular task in classes and can easily be combined with other assignments. While a book report is usually used as a summative task, a reading response could be used at the end of each chapter to help practice comprehension.
Our reading response rubric focuses on 5 key assessment criteria: understanding and reflection, depth of connections, use of language and conventions, word choice, and formatting/references.
Try out the reading response rubric by clicking here.
If you enjoyed this list and want to discover more analytics rubrics for reading and writing, check out our previous discussion on 5 Analytic Rubric Examples for High School.
*SUPER CHECKLISTS coming soon.
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