Writer's Notebook Scoring Guide

Writer's Notebooks will be due next Friday, Sept. 7th.  After that, notebooks will be due every other week.  Students will be required to complete 7 entries/week.  5 at school and 2 at home.

Writer’s Notebook Scoring Guide

	10	8	7	6
Flexibility and Fluency	Most entries are completed.  Writer uses a variety of strategies and topics.	Many entries are completed.  Writer uses strategies from class and shows some topic variety.	Entries are left unfinished.  Topics and strategies may vary.	Entries are underdeveloped.  Little or not variety in writing strategies.
Thoughtfulness	Entries are thoughtful and reflective, revealing new insights to the writer’s thinking.  Writer practices proper mechanics, usage, grammar, and spelling (MUGS).	Entries tend to be thoughtful.  They may reveal new insights to the writer’s thinking.  A pattern of topics develops over a number of entries.  Writer practices MUGS.	Entries resemble a diary format or bed-to-bed-type stories.  Little or no reflective thinking is evident.  Writer does not give attention to MUGS.	Entries are difficult to read due to handwriting and /or MUGS.  Writer does not demonstrate reflective thinking.
Frequency	90% of required entries.	80% of required entries.	74% of required entries.	70% of required entries.