Rubrics & Scoring Guides Teaching Resources
Simplify your grading with printable rubrics and scoring guides designed for elementary teachers, by elementary teachers. This collection of rubrics and scoring guides covers a host of common assignments and provides both you and your students with clear ways to measure quality of their work.
New to using this teaching tool? Here's a quick primer from the Teach Starter teacher team!
What Is a Rubric?
Put simply, a rubric is a tool teachers can use to evaluate and grade student work or performance. Providing a set of criteria and standards you can use to measure the quality of a student's work or performance, rubrics typically include descriptions of different levels of performance — "excellent," "good," "fair," and "poor," for example — and specify the criteria that will be used to evaluate the work or performance.
You can use rubrics for a wide range of activities from written essays to oral presentations, group projects, and more.
Why Should Teachers Use Rubrics?
We certainly don't recommend using rubrics for every single thing students do in your classroom, but this tool could prove useful when you're looking to grade student work! Consider these benefits:
- You can use the criteria and standards specified in the rubric to measure the quality of the student's work or performance. This is the most basic usage.
- Rubrics spell out clear expectations for what a student's work should look like at different levels of performance.
- A rubric can help you identify areas where individual students need improvement.
- You can use rubrics to provide detailed and specific feedback to students.
- You can use rubrics to communicate grading criteria to your students before an assignment is due, so they fully understand the expectations of the assignment.
- Rubrics can also be used to inform instruction, allowing you to identify where your students are struggling and adjust instruction to better meet their needs.
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Speaking Skills Assessment Checklist
Help students take ownership of their communication skills with this speaking skills checklist.
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Concepts About Print Assessment Checklists
Use these concepts of print assessment checklists to check all aspects of print are understood.
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Oral Presentation Rubric for Kindergarten
Use this Oral Presentation Rubric for peer or teacher assessments of presentations in the Kindergarten.
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Kindergarten Visual Writing Rubric
Help your little learners perfect their writing with a kindergarten visual writing rubric.
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Group Presentation Rubric
Make assigning grades for group presentations a breeze with a printable Group Presentation Rubric.
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Constructed Response Rubrics - RACE & RACES Writing
Make scoring constructed response writings easy with printable constructed response rubrics.
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R.E.A.L. Reader - Self Assessment Rubric
Promote student self-assessment of reading skills with a R.E.A.L. Reading Self-Assessment Rubric.
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Assessment Rubric – Biographical Texts
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students’ biography writing.
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Individual Oral Presentation Assessment Rubric
Use an individual oral presentation rubric to help your students work out their presentation plans.
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Assessment Rubric - Opinion Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' opinion writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Poetry
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess student's poetry.
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Assessment Rubric - Narrative Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' narrative writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Procedural Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' procedural writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Informative Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' informative writing.
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Genius Hour Project Assessment Rubric (Grades 5 and 6)
An assessment rubric for the teacher to assess each student's Genius Hour project.
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Genius Hour Project Assessment Rubric (Grades 3 and 4)
An assessment rubric for the teacher to assess each student's Genius Hour project.
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Assessment Rubric - Historical Recounts
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' historical recounts.