1. | Using your classroom or school library, have each student check out a biography of a famous person. The biography should be about one of the three people on the student's list from Session 1. |
2. | Pass out the and go over expectations and criteria with students. |
3. | Use the sample web for Martin Luther King, Jr. to model for students how each item of the rubric applies to the creation of the web. |
4. | Ask students to skim (or preread) their biographies, focusing on the questions they generated during Session 1 about the selected person. Then have students work with their partners to group the information they find into appropriate categories and start a rough draft of their webs. |
5. | For homework (and, if time, in class), have students read independently as they complete their webs. |
6. | Students can also use the to add to their webs. |
7. | When the webs are complete, have each student use the Web Rubric to evaluate his or her own web. |
8. | Have each student share his or her web with a partner and give each other feedback and suggestions for improvement. The partner can fill out the same rubric using a different color. |
9. | Collect the students' webs, review them, and use the same rubric with another color to make suggestions for improvement. |
1. | Return the rubrics to students, giving them time to review the comments from you and their partners. Allow them the opportunity to make revisions to their webs. |
2. | Have students copy their webs neatly onto butcher paper and prepare for the class presentation, writing notes or key words and phrases on index cards to help them remember what they will say. |
1. | As students give the class presentations, have other students use the to write their feedback. |
2. | Collect the feedback forms, review and check them for inappropriate comments, and give each set to the corresponding presenter. |
Have students use their webs and the online Bio-Cube tool to plan and write biographies of the person they have researched. When they are finished, ask students to share the books with a younger class.
Possible student assessments include:
In my book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 , I shared the following middle school writing rubrics with my readers. Unfortunately, the short links I provided in my book have timed out, so I wanted to share these on my blog so any middle school teachers interested in using them have access! Feel free to make a copy and adjust as needed.
bit.ly/6-8ArgumentativeWritingRubric
bit.ly/6-8InformativeWritingRubric
bit.ly/6-8NarrativeWritingRubric
I will be posting the high school writing rubrics as soon as I can get them reformatted in a shareable version. If you have rubrics you use, love, and are willing to share, I’d love to crowdsource rubrics here!
Thank you for this wonderful resource! I love getting the emails from your site.
What are your thoughts on putting the high score description in the 2nd column next to the criteria? Students’ eyes are naturally drawn to the columns in order of left to right, so putting the high scoring description makes it the first thing they look at. It sets the tone for them, as if to say, “Do this! This is the best!”
Thank you again for providing this rubric. The descriptions and criteria are very well-written.
You are absolutely welcome to edit and rework them! My co-teacher prefers rubrics that start with 4 on the left side for those exact reasons. Mentally, it works better for me this way. That said, they are easy to copy and change!
Thanks so much!
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Thank you so much for sharing such a valuable resource!
Hello, are the high school rubrics available on the website, or in the book?
They are in the book, Carly. They are also so similar to the middle school rubrics that I did not want to publish a separate post for them.
Dear Ms Tucker
I was browsing and came across you rubrics for students writing. I read them and immediately fall in love with the simplicity of their structure. Thanks for making these resource available, easing research time.
I deem it a pleasure to be able to use them for my assessment.
You’re welcome, Emileta!
I’m glad these will save you time!
These are awesome rubrics! Thank you so much for sharing! They are a great resource.
Any ideas for a poetry rubric. I hate “grading” poetry. I truly believe students should have absolute freedom, but Texas TEKS say otherwise…..so…..
I so appreciate the clarity and ease of understanding these rubrics provide!!
I tend to agree with you. However, if you are expected to assess poetry, I’d start with the language in the TEKs and work backward. What do the TEKs want you to assess when it comes to poetry? Figurative language, sensory details, thematic progression? I’d isolate each “skill” or element of poetry they want you to assess then use those as your criteria and describe what that skill or element looks like in each stage–beginner, developing, proficient, mastery.
Thank you so much for sharing your rubrics with teachers! Extremely helpful and greatly appreciated.
You’re so welcome, Vanessa!
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Thank you for sharing your rubrics.
Thank you so much for sharing the rubrics. I use them in class for students’ projects.
Thank you so much for this lovely set up! It has helped a lot of new teachers!
Words can not describe how grateful I am.
Thank you so much! I am always having trouble teaching language art since I feel much comfortable with numbers..
You’re welcome, Helen! Happy to help 😊
Thank you for this very helpful resources, appreciated it!
You’re welcome, Shiela!
Thank you so much for this resource! This is the best rubric I’ve seen for middle school writing!
Thank you, Anna!
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful resource!!! You are amazing!!!
You’re welcome, Michelle! So glad these are useful. 😊
Thank you so much for providing these! I’m “Yearbook Teacher” and these are wonderful since I have no clue how to grade written work (I normally teach a CTE course but with virtual/hybrid staff is spread thin.
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You’re welcome, Nicolas! I’m so glad these are useful 😊
It appears 28 possible points can be earned……the sum of points earned would be at what grade level…..for example, if a student earned all 4’s on the Argumentative Writing Rubric what grade level would his writing rank…….or are their ranges for the sum of points……I would prefer to have a grade level…..
Hi MaryIsabel,
I assess on a 4 point mastery scale, so the final score calculates an average then that number 1, 2, 3, 4 is inserted into the grade book (if you have a mastery-based grade book option). Otherwise, you will need to convert your number on a scale.
Thank you. You are so kind. God bless you.
You’re welcome, Jennifer!
I am unable to open the rubrics. Are they still available for teacher to access?
Hi Jennifer,
The short links are below each image of the rubric, and they force you to make a copy. You’ll need to be logged into your Gmail account so your copies save in your Google Drive.
These are excellent! Thank you for sharing Dr. Tucker!
You’re welcome, Laura!
Life saver! Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome, Carolyn!
Thank you so much for sharing these rubrics! I can’t say anything that hasn’t already been mentioned in the posts above. Love the idea of creating a “rubric bank” available to all who may need it.
You are very welcome, Carolina! I’m thrilled they are useful.
Good Evening , Ms. Tucker
Have you published a persuasive writing rubric?
Hi Yolanda,
I do not have persuasive rubrics. I focused on argumentative writing instead.
THIS IS A LIFESAVER!! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!
You’re very welcome, Tammy! 😊
WOW! I’m so loving these… as we are developing our standards for our program, this gives us a total jump start! By chance, do you have the High School writing rubrics?
My high school versions are very similar to these. Here is an example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TLkY6Yt-AdXdwCwvXJ7YAqzsoYZmT6G3QiT_yefAHV8/edit
Good luck with your rubrics! AI can be a very helpful resources when generating rubrics with the skill descriptions!
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Hands-on ideas to engage digital learners in meeting standards and learning goals.
Using a device to fill out a digital worksheet isn't any more compelling than using a pencil to fill out a paper version. Encourage students to show what they know and capitalize on their interest in technology by creating digital projects on classroom topics using media formats that abound in the world around them.
Explore fifty ideas for using a digital approach to help middle school students meet standards and learning goals, divided into sections for:
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Use a digital approach to engage middle school students in reading comprehension and provide authentic opportunities for listening, speaking and writing in narrative, informational and argumentative form.
Have students create a new cover design for a book they are reading to demonstrate comprehension and explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict.
Explore a Book Cover Design lesson plan
Small, but mindful, changes can move a task beyond remember and retell. For example, replace a typical character trait cluster assignment with the task of developing a coat of arms for a story's protagonist that represents traits of the main character.
Creating a coat of arms provides students with an opportunity to think about objects, colors, symbols, and mottos that reflect a character's personality, passions, strengths, and experiences.
Wixie has a Coat of Arms template that makes it easy to add color, text, and images to show comprehension.
Explore a Character Scrapbook lesson plan
Much like the movie trailers students are familiar with, ask students to create a short, fast-paced book trailer that shares information about characters and events in a way that would motivate others to read the book.
Share the book trailers with the rest of the class or play them on the morning announcements to encourage others to read the books.
Explore a Book Trailer lesson plan
Blackout Poems
To write a blackout poem, the author covers up words on a page of text until the leftover words form a poem. Digital tools, like Wixie, include blackout poetry templates that contain a page of text from Tom Sawyer ( template ), Shakespeare ( template ), Lewis Carroll ( template ), and more.
Students read the text and circle words they find interesting, then read them again to hear the resulting poem. Students can circle additional words to fill out the idea and then blackout the rest of the words and add additional decoration.
Video Poetry
Poetry's purposeful word choice encourages close, careful reading. Have students create visual versions of poems to demonstrate their comprehension of the author's word choice and intent.
Ask students to create a project and then type a poem from their favorite poet or one they have written, adding stanzas to each page. Students can add illustrations and record themselves reading it.
Explore a Visual Poetry lesson plan
Rather than merely retelling stories, ask students to adapt, extend, or create new versions of the stories they are reading. Students can modernize an ancient myth to make it more relevant to their lives today, comparing similarities and differences along the way.
Visuals help form connections to words and help students better remember the meaning of the word.
Digital tools make it easy to combine words and pictures and publish flash cards and posters you can use to improve vocabulary.
Explore a Cool Word Vocabulary lesson plan
Have students personify an object, and then use a digital tool like Wixie to write, illustrate and publish it as an eBook.
Students should brainstorm feelings the object would have to develop the conflict that will drive their story and begin writing. Scaffold their work further by asking them to identify character traits, determine setting, and codify the plot diagram or at a minimum the beginning, middle, and end.
Explore a Personification Stories lesson plan
Creating a digital story in the form of an interview helps you engage students in writing and makes work with informational text come alive. Ask students to craft fictitious interviews between characters in a novel they are reading to demonstrate comprehension of the traits and behaviors.
Fictitious interviews are great ways to summarize and deepen comprehension for informational texts as well, making them perfect for science and social studies classrooms. For example, you can ask students to interview a figure from history, an animal, or even an artifact.
More ideas for conducting interviews
Creating a Wanted poster is a great way to get students thinking about the traits, experiences, and motivations of the characters in the stories they are reading.
It is often the antagonist that makes a story interesting or gives a plot direction. Have students create wanted posters for villains in the stories they are reading to evaluate comprehension and help them consider how they might craft a villain to add impact to their own writing.
Creating Wanted posters can also help students clarify their thinking about definitions related to math , atomic elements and molecules , and figures from history .
Digital tools can provide a platform for middle school students to apply mathematical thinking and engage in standards of mathematical practice as they practice procedures, create visual models, and solve problems.
Use word problems ( ratio and rate ) to give students a sense of the ways that ratio and rate connect to the world around them.
Ask students to extend their understanding by writing their own word problems and challenging peers to solve them using strategies like a double-number line .
Measuring the perimeter and area of polygons requires knowing and applying formulas like the Pythagorean Theorem. Give students a fun context for practicing by asking them to design a hole for miniature golf!
Math can be frustrating for some students, especially when erasing mistakes makes equations or coordinate planes unreadable. This problem only adds to the challenge of tackling complex equations and data.
Use backgrounds like grids , plots , or coordinate planes , and have students use paint tools to write equations, fill areas, or plot lines.
Ratio and rate also apply to scale in architectural drawings. Even if they don't want to be an architect, most students would love to dream up a bedroom, a tiny house, or even a mansion design.
Have students use a grid to create architectural designs to scale.
You can teach students the rule of probability, but they will retain the information more if they come up with the mathematical rules on their own.
Have students calculate experimental probability by using dice or a specific spinner to do a task 40 times. Have students tally their results and use the data to calculate the experimental probability.
After establishing experimental probability, challenge students to come up with the theoretical probability for other toys. Bonus if they can generate a mathematical model for predicting probability.
Using data to make predictions, analyze and communicate information is becoming an essential skill for future success. While there are other steps in the data science process, students need to know how to collect and display data in ways that make it easy to visualize and understand.
Wixie makes this process easy with its design tools and templates, whether students are creating bar graphs (categorical), histograms (numerical), or other data displays.
Tessellations are geometric patterns that repeat forever with no gaps or overlaps. Squares can tessellate easily. The word tessellate comes from the Greek word tesseres, which means four.
Inspire students with the work of M.C. Escher or Islamic tiling, and then have them create their own rotation or reflection tessellations.
Explore a Tessellation lesson plan
Showcase student expertise by asking them to create tutorials to teach others how to calculate, measure, solve and more.
What can your students teach others? Procedural writing is an excellent way for students to become experts in a topic and feel confident about their ability to share the information with others. This process of deconstructing and reorganizing information helps students cement concepts and provides an opportunity for you to pinpoint misconceptions.
So whether students are sharing content, a process they struggled to understand, or something they are passionate about, a how-to assignment is the perfect task to cement learning and inspire others.
Have students research information, conduct surveys, or collect data on a topic. Then, students can create charts and graphs, analyze the information, and develop an infographic to display their findings.
Explore a Creating Infographics lesson plan
Digital tools provide a fun way for students to share ideas and explain scientific understandings for Life, Physical, Earth and Space and Engineering concepts.
Ask students to create a music video to inform others about how a body system works, its functions, and how it interacts with other systems for optimal health.
Explore an It's My Body lesson plan
Evaluate student understanding of animal cells by asking them to compare how various cell parts, including the nucleus, cell wall, cell membrane, chloroplast, and mitochondria, function like elements on a farm or parts of a school .
By illustrating these comparisons, students not only gain a deeper understanding of cellular structures and their functions but also develop their ability to make meaningful connections between seemingly unrelated concepts.
Actively engage students in scientific exploration by creating simulations and visual representations that model chemical reactions and scientific processes.
By encouraging them to create visual representations, students can deepen their understanding of complex concepts.
Students can create expert interview videos that delve into scientific concepts and discoveries. By conducting interviews with scientists or experts in the field, students can explore complex ideas and present their findings in an engaging and accessible format; fostering a deeper understanding of science among their peers.
Don't have access to an expert? Craft a fictitious interview!
Ask students to create informational science texts to inform or share learning with others. Through these books, students can convey their understanding of various concepts.
Students benefit from explicit vocabulary instruction, especially terminology linked to a specific discipline or topic. Collecting, defining and refining are easy with digital terminology journals.
Labeling and diagramming are great, but modeling a process through animation can help students better understand the macro- and micro- scopic processes. For example, ask students to animate a chemical process or geologic cycle, illustrating the stages and processes involved.
Read more about Animating in Secondary Math and Science
Help students see physics as more than rules and equations by connecting it to a favorite sport or physical activity.
Explore a Fastballs, Free Throws, and Physics lesson plan
The limited amount of space in a comic's panels requires students to choose key points in a process or important factors in chemical reactions as they work to design and illustrate them.
Students in middle school are starting to have the capabilities and passions to change the world. Have students produce public service announcements (PSAs) to raise awareness, inform, and change behavior.
When developing a public service announcement (PSA), students have a chance to practice and apply persuasive writing skills in a real-world, authentic context. A short PSA targeted at a particular audience also encourages students to focus on writing organization, as well as voice and word choice.
Explore a Here's to Your Health lesson plan
Engaging middle school students in deep thinking about history and community helps to develop citizens who have powerful inquiry and critical thinking skills.
Using a digital storytelling approach to biographies helps prevent their writing from becoming a list of unrelated facts. Having students combine their research results with imagery, sound, and other media can help them better combine aspects of narrative and informational writing for a more compelling script.
Biographies aren't always books, either. There are even entire cable television channels devoted to biographies. Consider having your students create video biographies, too.
Explore a Video Biography lesson plan
To help students think deeply about how events, circumstances, culture, and leaders in the past affect the lives of human beings, ask students to create a series of fictional journal entries that indicate how events in the past might have affected the life and perspective of a specific person living during that time. ( template )
Explore a Historical Journal lesson plan
Have students use paint tools and text labels to create maps to show the geographic features, regions, and/or economy of an area, country, or civilization.
Our students have grown up watching shows, but not necessarily the news. Challenge your students to develop a news report they would actually want to watch based on the content they are learning.
Writing a news report requires students to organize and summarize information and use new vocabulary and terminology in context.
Explore a News Broadcast lesson plan
Ask students to interview a community member to expand their knowledge and experience, as well as encourage listening, curiosity, and empathy skills.
Encourage students to change the order of questions or the order of the answers shared so that the story " unfolds a lesson learned ." In other words, what is the moral of this person's story, or what can it teach the rest of us?
Students in middle school are idealistic and often passionate about current issues. While they may simply want to proclaim their ideas on a billboard , use this opportunity to ask them to back up their opinions with claims and evidence .
Have students design an online museum, displaying artifacts and stories to engage others in the heritage of their community or a specific region.
Explore a Virtual Museum lesson plan
To help students better understand the unique features of a place, have them develop materials for a virtual tourism trade show where students promote and pitch that location to attract visitors.
Explore a Tourism Tradeshow lesson plan
Have students create a newsletter or newspaper to show what they have learned about the events, politics, and cultures of a different time in history.
Newspaper creation helps students better understand the perspectives of those in different times and cultures.
Explore a Day in the Life lesson plan
After learning something new, have students tell someone else using a postcard! They could write a postcard from a specific time in history or a unique geographic or cultural destination.
Wixie provides a canvas for students to set goals, explore emotions, and express themselves through art and music.
The simple act of writing down your goals makes you more likely to achieve them, so have students take some time to set personal goals to accomplish this school or calendar year. Developing goals that are SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely) can help even more.
Have students use the goals as a home screen on their devices so they see a daily reminder of what they are working to achieve.
Explore a SMART Goals lesson plan
A vision board provides inspiration and motivation to reach dreams and goals. Students can choose a goal and add pictures of what they think achieving them looks and feels like.
Digital tools, like Wixie, make it easy to combine images. When vision boards are complete, print or export an image so you can post to a place you are everyday, like on a desk or phone lock screen, for a daily motivator.
Explore a Vision Boarding lesson plan
Giuseppe Arcimboldo is an Italian Renaissance painter known for his portraits of people that use objects like fruit and books. Challenge students to create Arcimboldo-style self-portraits by combining clip art images in an imaging tool.
Explore an Arcimboldo-Inspired Self-Portraits lesson plan
While you may not be teaching music theory, expressing one's feelings and emotions through music is both fun and therapeutic. You can try the online keyboard below or give students options like:
Involving students in creating a class constitution makes them part of the process of government, giving them a vested interest and responsibility in following and upholding the laws they have determined.
Explore a Classroom Constitution lesson plan
Inform students about surrealism. You might inspire them by reading a book like Pish, Posh, Hieronymus Bosch .
Have students use paint tools to illustrate bizarre creatures juxtaposed around a normal self-portrait and then write a poem about the way the surrealism makes them feel.
This example takes advantage of the mirror symmetry options for the paint brush in Wixie .
Explore a Surreal Symmetry lesson plan
In All in the Same Boat by Wilkie Martin, a greedy rat is shown how no one wins when success is achieved at the expense of others.
Discuss what makes a great teammate and then ask students to create their own Team Member ID Card to let future group members know a bit about how they work collaboratively.
Show your appreciation for a classmate, family member, or friend with a compliment card. This is a great idea for a random acts of kindness promotion.
Tools like Wixie let you print multiple copies or pages onto a single sheet of paper, making it easy to print, fold, and then drop in a classmate's lunch box or backpack.
Students likely already have playlists for their favorite songs, and many have playlists for different moods. Use this as a jumping-off point to ask them to "audiolize" what their future sounds like by creating a playlist .
Students can add songs they know or create new artists and bands and write descriptions for them.
Use music production or notation software to have students compose their own music.
Have students record themselves singing their melody or playing their compositions on a recorder or keyboard.
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