User-Friendly PARCC Writing Rubrics!

Fans of this blog know that the most recent version of PARCC writing rubrics emerged on July 29, 2014 and I blogged about them here.  As you may have also noticed, their verbiage is a bit clumsy/wordy.  Today I streamlined them to make them more user-friendly.

Note: Other than removing superfluous words and the phrase “appropriate to the task” (which seems redundant), I’ve kept the content intact. I also converted the PDFs to Word documents (Thank you, Nitro!), so if you want to re-tweak them yourself, you can.

Here they are:

PARCC Grade 3 July 29 SIMPLIFIED Rubric Final

PARCC Grades 4-5 July 29 SIMPLIFIED Rubric Final

PARCC Grades 6-11 July 29 SIMPLIFIED Rubric Final

(PS: Thanks to my friends at Camden’s Promise Charter School for inspiring this effort!)

***PLEASE NOTE: Check out TLC “PARCC Prep” page for the most current information I have on PARCC preparation.