Our Negotiated Narrative Writing Rubric
A B
The text demonstrates full control
over a range of cohesive devices.
Cohesion Like adverbs, conjunctions
synonyms articles, pronouns, and
transitional devices.
Demonstrates full control of
precise words that caters for a
range of Tier 2 and Tier 3 words
Vocabulary such as content specific, words
that promote descriptive language
and emotive words.
Demonstrates full control of a
variety of punctuation which
includes.
 commas to separate clauses
 possessive apostrophe
 quotation marks are used in
texts to signal dialogue, titles
Punctuation and quoted (direct) speech
 contractions
 capital letters signal proper
nouns
 commas used to separate items
in lists
 full stops, question marks and
exclamation marks.
Demonstrates full control of
paragraphing to promote the
Text sequence of the narrative text
Structure which includes setting, characters,
conflict, resolution, rising action,
climax, protagonist and antagonist.
C D
The text demonstrates control
over most of the cohesive devices.
Like adverbs, conjunctions
synonyms articles, pronouns, and
transitional devices.
Demonstrates control of precise
words that cater for Tier 2 and
Tier 3 words such as content
specific, words that promote
descriptive language and emotive
words.
Demonstrates a variety of
punctuation which includes.
 possessive apostrophe
 quotation marks are used in
texts to signal dialogue, titles
and quoted (direct) speech
 contractions
 capital letters signal proper
nouns
 commas used to separate items
in lists
full stops, question
Demonstrates control of
paragraphing to promote the
sequence of the narrative text
which includes setting, characters,
conflict, resolution, rising action,
climax, protagonist and antagonist.
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The text demonstrates some
control over cohesive devices. Like
adverbs, conjunctions synonyms
articles, pronouns, and transitional
devices.
Includes some precise words that
cater for Tier 2 and Tier 3 words
such as content specific, words
that promote descriptive language
and emotive words.
Demonstrates a variety of some
punctuation which includes.
 quotation marks are used in
texts to signal dialogue, titles
and quoted (direct) speech
 contractions
 capital letters signal proper
nouns
 commas used to separate items
in lists
full stops, question
Demonstrates some control of
paragraphing to promote the
sequence of the narrative text
which includes setting, characters,
conflict and resolution.
Demonstrates limited control over
a few cohesive devices. Like
adverbs, conjunctions synonyms
articles, pronouns, and transitional
devices.
Limited use of Tier 2 and Tier 3
words.
Demonstrates limited control of
punctuation e.g.
 contractions
 capital letters signal proper
nouns
 commas used to separate items
in lists
full stops, question
Demonstrates limited control of
paragraphing to promote the
sequence of the narrative text
which includes setting, characters,
conflict and resolution.