1. The New Florida Writing Rubrics

2. VLTs – Volusia Literacy Tests (3 per year)
Summative Course Grades
FSA – Florida Standards Assessment
2 parts
Writing to Text
Reading, Language, and Listening

3. How are these going to be graded?

4. The Two Rubrics
Informative/Explanatory (also used for Literary Analysis)
Argumentation
Domains
Purpose, Focus, and Organization
Evidence and Elaboration
Conventions of Standard English

5. Domain 1: Purpose, Focus, and Organization
controlling idea/claim
structure
progression of ideas
transition
cohesion
style
tone
audience
introduction and conclusion
40 %

6. Domain 2: Evidence and Elaboration
textual support
references to sources
expression of ideas
elaboration techniques
precise language
academic and domain-specific vocabulary
sentence structure
40 %

7. Domain 3: Conventions of Standard English
usage
punctuation
capitalization
sentence formation
spelling
20 %

8. Essays can earn 10 possible points
The Rubric Score
Purpose, Focus, and Organization Score
0 - 4
_____
Evidence and Elaboration Score
Conventions of Standard English Score
0 - 2
+ _____
ESSAY SCORE:
0 - 10 3 2 1 6
Essays can earn 10 possible points

9. Using your Informative/Explanatory Rubric:
Read the entire rubric – both sides.
Highlight adjectives (descriptive words) as you read.

10. Those Three Little Words…
For each box of the scoring domains, share your adjectives with your table partners.
Work with your table partners to limit your list of adjectives in each score to the three most important to a scorer.
Just use one adjective for Conventions.
Do not to use adjectives more than once.
Write your three adjectives for each box on the empty rubric chart.

11. Just One Word…
For each group of three, circle or highlight the best word.

12. 1. Read __(fill in the blank)_________ .
Scoring Practice
1. Read __(fill in the blank)_________ .
Purpose, Focus, and Organization Score
0 - 4
_____
Evidence and Elaboration Score
Conventions of Standard English Score
0 - 2
ESSAY SCORE:
0 - 10
2. Using the FSA Informative Rubric, score the student essay.

13. Scoring Practice Share your scores with your table group.
Discuss each of the three domains and how you derived your scores.
Try to come to a consensus score.