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    Compositions Grading Rubric and Checklist: Organization

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    This document provides a grading rubric and checklist for compositions in Spanish. It evaluates compositions on organization, sentence structure and grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and accuracy, and proofreading and mechanics. Key areas of focus include logical progression, use of transitional words, accuracy of grammar structures, appropriate vocabulary level and register, variety in word choice, conciseness, and few spelling, punctuation or other mechanical errors. Compositions are scored out of 20 total points.

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    This document provides a grading rubric and checklist for compositions in Spanish. It evaluates compositions on organization, sentence structure and grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and accuracy, and proofreading and mechanics. Key areas of focus include logical progression, use of transitional words, accuracy of grammar structures, appropriate vocabulary level and register, variety in word choice, conciseness, and few spelling, punctuation or other mechanical errors. Compositions are scored out of 20 total points.

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    This document provides a grading rubric and checklist for compositions in Spanish. It evaluates compositions on organization, sentence structure and grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and accuracy, and proofreading and mechanics. Key areas of focus include logical progression, use of transitional words, accuracy of grammar structures, appropriate vocabulary level and register, variety in word choice, conciseness, and few spelling, punctuation or other mechanical errors. Compositions are scored out of 20 total points.

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    Compositions Grading Rubric and Checklist: Organization

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    Compositions Grading Rubric and Checklist

    Organization

     Follows a logical progression with similar topics being grouped together 5


     Each paragraph or section of the letter has a topic sentence.
    4
    3
     Details in the paragraphs and sections relate to the topic sentence.
    2
     Transitional sentences and connector words are used between paragraphs and sections.
    1
     Connector words are used to link ideas together within sentences.
    A variety of connector words are used that go beyond y, pero and también.
    Sentence structure and grammatical accuracy
    ¨ Accuracy
     Errors, when present, generally do not interfere with comprehensibility.
     Articles and other determiners are used or omitted as required. 5
     Pronouns are used and inflected correctly. 4
     Verb tenses, moods and aspects are generally accurate. 3
    2
     Prepositions are used correctly.
    1
     The redacción does not “read like English with Spanish words”. Spanish syntax is used.
     Word order is generally accurate.
     The redacción contains few run-on sentences or sentence fragments.
    o Strategies are employed to reduce wordiness such as:
    - using pronouns to combine information that refers to the same nouns
    - replacing muy + adjective with the superlative form –ísimo
    - replacing prepositional phrases with single words that achieve the same purpose
    - using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, prepositions and relative pronouns to combine related ideas into
    a single sentence
    o Sentence structure is varied with the use of simple, compound and complex sentences.
    Vocabulary and accuracy
     There are few vocabulary errors, mistranslations, false cognates, or inappropriate translations.
     Vocabulary errors rarely interfere with comprehensibility. 5
     Vocabulary is at an appropriate register and level of sophistication. 4
     Variety 3
     The author makes use of synonyms and paraphrase. 2
     The author does not over rely on high frequency words and cognates. 1
     Conciseness
     Weak verbs such as ser/estar/tener/hay/gustar/ir/ayudar/poder/necesitar, are used infrequently and are replaced with
    strong verbs denoting action.
     General nouns such as cosa/persona/gente/sociedad/problema/vida/mundo, etc. are replaced with more specific
    terms.
     Quantitative adjectives and adverbs such as mucho/muy/pequeño/grande/poco, etc. are replaced with specific
    quantities or dimensions.
     Subjective adjectives and adverbs such as bien, buen(o), gran, importante, interesante, necesario, serio, mal(o),
    fácil, difícil, etc. are replaced with more specific adjectives.

    Proofreading and mechanics


    The redacción contains few:
    5
     errors in spelling and accentuation;
    4
     punctuation mistakes;
    3
     capitalization mistakes; 2
     subject-verb agreement errors & verb inflection errors; 1
     noun-adjective & noun-pronoun agreement error;
    Total: /20

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