Score	Main Idea	Supporting Details	Organization	Coherence
4	Focus on stated topic/prompt	Well-developed plot (setting, situation, problem or conflict, characters introduced, action with events, climax or high)	B-M-E framework	Unified
	Develops clear pre-writing	Characters are described (location, type of weather, time of day and time period	Beginning pulls reader into story and keep reader intrigued	Sense of overall completeness
		Well elaborated events		Uses transition words/phrases
		Relevant Details
		Power Words
		- concrete words
		- vivid verbs
		- descriptive adjectives
		- adverbs/adverbial phrases
		sound words (onomatopoeia, similies, metaphors
		- emotions/feelings
		- dialogue (optional)
		- sentence variety
3	focuses on prompt	Well developed plot	B-M-E framework	Overall completeness (some glue words)
	develops pre-writing plan	Elaborated events (2 or more)	Sequenced events (progresses logically)	Minor weaknesses
		Characters are described	Keeps reader interested	Some use of transition words
		Setting is described
		Relevant details
		Some power words
		- concrete nouns
		- vivid verbs
		- descriptive adjectives
		Some use of dialogue (optional)
		Emotions and feelings
		Sentence Variety
2	focuses on topic, but drifts	Events not evenly elaborated	Loss of progression of ideas	Sentences or paragraphs may/may not connect
	May/may not develop a pre-writing plan	List of unelaborated events	Some sense of strategy
		Weak nouns, verbs, adjectives to support events
		meaningless dialogue
1	Attempts to respond to topic/prompt	Attempts to support ideas	No strategy or plan	Sentences or paragraphs do no connect
	Little or no sense of story	No events or a few unelaborated events	Lacks clarity