Kindergarten Writing Rubric

1 2 3
Emerging Developing Capable

Little or no details Writes one complete Two or more complete

sentence sentences including
Some sequence details
Organization

Sentence makes sense

Sentences make sense
Sequence from beginning
to end, but some parts Clear sequence from
may be missing or not beginning to middle to
clear end

Writing or drawing sticks Print is legible Sentences begin with a

capital letter
Uppercase letters are There is spacing between
used within words some words End with proper
Conventions

punctuation
No punctuation Some punctuation and
capitals Proper spacing between
all words

Print is legible

Letters/sounds do not Capitals are not used Evidence of beginning,

match correctly middle and ending
sounds, using phonetic
Evidence of beginning and spelling
Spelling

ending sounds
High frequency words
Some sounds/letters are spelled correctly
match
Letters and sounds
match

Drawing is mostly about Picture matches idea Picture matches idea, is

Illustration

topic presented detailed (who, what,

where) & enhances the
idea presented