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Organization The writing – skillfully establishes a situation and introduces a narrator and/or characters skillfully organizes an event sequence that unfolds naturally skillfully uses temporal words and/or phrases to signal event order skillfully provides a sense of closure The writing – establishes a situation and introduces a narrator and/or characters organizes an event sequence that unfolds naturally uses temporal words and/or phrases to signal event order provides a sense of closure The writing – ineffectively establishes a situation and introduces a narrator and/or characters organizes an event sequence that may not unfold naturally uses some temporal words and/or phrases to signal event orderattempts to provide sense of closure The writing – fails to establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters fails to organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally uses few, if any, temporal words and/ or phrases to signal event order may lack a sense of closure Language/Conventions The writing – demonstrates a well-developed command of standard English conventions skillfully employs language and tone appropriate to audience and purpose has sentences that are skillfully constructed with appropriate variety in length and structure The writing – demonstrates a command of standard English conventions; errors do not interfere with understanding employs language and tone appropriate to audience and purpose has sentences that are generally complete with sufficient variety in length and structure The writing – demonstrates a limited and/or inconsistent command of standard English conventions; errors may interfere with understanding inconsistently employs language and tone appropriate to audience and purpose has some sentence formation errors and/or a lack of sentence variety The writing – demonstrates a weak command of standard English conventions; errors interfere with understanding employs language and tone that are inappropriate to audience and purpose has frequent and severe sentence formation errors and/or a lack of sentence variety
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