Web Search for 5^th Grade Writing Assessment

By Barb Bergschneider and Sherry Cluney

http://6traits.cyberspaces.net/rubric2.html

This contains writing assessment rubrics for voice, word choice, organization, sentence fluency, conventions, and ideas & contents.

http://www.siue.edu/~deder/grrub.html

This site contains a basic writing rubric from Southern Illinois University.

http://www.ael.org/rel/state/ky/kyasesmt.htm

This site contains the Kentucky writing assessment goals for helping students understand how to become novice, apprentice, proficient, and distinguished writers.

http://www.iupui.edu/~sharrin/5365/bibmac.htm

This site contains a list of books that address writing assessments.

http://eee.uci.edu/faculty/strenski/transfer/rubric.html

This site contains a scoring rubric for writing assessments from UCI. Assess concept, thesis, support, organization and language.

http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kmab9905.htm

This site contains information on using and developing rubrics. It also looks at the validity and reliability, effect on teaching, and effects on learning using rubrics.

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/languagearts/readingwriting/writingassessment.htm

This site contains writing improvement ideas, developmental writing instructions, grades 1-5 writing assessment, district writing prompts, developmental writing recording sheet, developmental writing continuum, student friendly writing rubric, fourth/fifth narrative summary of key features, fifth grade narrative checklist and rubric, fourth/fifth persuasive/expository summary of key features, and fifth grade persuasive/expository writing checklist and rubric.

http://www.bvsd.k12.co.us/schools/platt/sixth/assessment.html

This site contains a rubric for 6 trait assessment for middle school writers.

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/standards.html

This site contains various activities involving writing at the 5^th grade level.

http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Writing

Lesson plans written by education students and teachers and submitted to AskERIC for inclusion on our website.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/index.html

This site explores writing and evaluating the 5 paragraph essay for junior high students.

http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed440602.html

This site contains information on Grading Students' Classroom Writing: Issues and Strategies from ERIC Digest.

http://www.datasync.com/~teachers/site_index.htm

This site contains lists for each grade level of what goals students should be able to meet in their writing.

http://www.cps.k12.ri.us/~stonehil/writingrubric.htm

This site is a rubric for 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th grade writing assessment.

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/westoveres/OurClassrooms/WritingTasks.html

This site contains 5^th grade writing tasks using writing to perform, persuade, express, and to perform a task.

http://www.conknet.com/hhs/departments/english/persuasion.html

This site contains ideas for students on persuasive writing.