grade 9-12 narrative writing rubric

9th-12th grade narrative writing rubric

Rubric for formative and summative assignments with tasks involving writing that tells a story, either personal or literary.

Rubric suitable for formative and summative assignments with tasks involving writing that tells a story, either personal or literary. Use this rubric when asking students to write a personal essay or a fictional narrative.

Consider using the 9th-12th Grade Narrative QuickMark set with this rubric. These drag-and-drop comments were tailor-made by veteran educators to give actionable, formative feedback directly to students. While they were explicitly aligned to this particular rubric, you can edit or add your own content to any QuickMark.

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Narrative Essay Rubric

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NJSLA-ELA Companion Guide: Grade 9

The New Jersey Student Learning Assessments for English Language Arts (NJSLA-ELA) measure student proficiency with grade-level skills, knowledge, and concepts that are critical to college and career readiness. On each assessment, students read and analyze passages from authentic fiction and nonfiction texts. Test forms can also include multimedia stimuli such as video or audio. The ELA assessments emphasize the importance of close reading, synthesizing ideas within and across texts, determining the meaning of words and phrases in context, and writing effectively when using and/or analyzing sources.

ELA Tasks Across High School

For high school students, the content coverage for ELA task types (i.e., Literary Analysis Task, Research Simulation Task, and Narrative Writing Task) will be represented across grade 9 and on the ELA component of the New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment (NJGPA). The grade 9 blueprint is composed of a Narrative Writing Task and Research Simulation Task. The ELA blueprint for the NJGPA includes a Literary Analysis Task and Research Simulation Task. This organizational structure ensures that high school students have an opportunity to complete all three ELA task types prior to graduation.

NJSLA-ELA Grade 9

The NJSLA-ELA blueprints define the total number of tasks and points for any given grade-level assessment. Grade 9 has one blueprint for all students. The blueprint consists of a Narrative Writing Task, Long or Paired Passage Set, and Research Simulation Task.

The grade 9 ELA assessment:

  • aligns to a representative sampling of standards and evidence statements;
  • reflects the balance between literary and informational texts;
  • includes a writing task in each unit and associated scoring rubrics;
  • aligns to the ELA Task Models;
  • maintains all item types (Evidence-Based Selected Response; Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response; and Prose Constructed Response); and
  • reports on all five subclaims and performance levels.

The units, ELA task types, and testing times for grade 9 are outlined in Table 1.

Table 1 - ELA Grade 9

Unit Task Time (minutes)
Unit 1 90
Unit 2 Research Simulation Task 90

For More Information

The NJSLA-ELA blueprints and additional test support documents (e.g., evidence statements, scoring rubrics) can be found in the Test Content and Other Information webpage of the New Jersey Assessments Resource Center under Educator Resources. The New Jersey Assessments Resource Center also includes links to access the ELA Practice Tests and Released Items .

If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Assessments at [email protected]

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Essay Rubric

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This rubric delineates specific expectations about an essay assignment to students and provides a means of assessing completed student essays.

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Grading rubrics can be of great benefit to both you and your students. For you, a rubric saves time and decreases subjectivity. Specific criteria are explicitly stated, facilitating the grading process and increasing your objectivity. For students, the use of grading rubrics helps them to meet or exceed expectations, to view the grading process as being “fair,” and to set goals for future learning. In order to help your students meet or exceed expectations of the assignment, be sure to discuss the rubric with your students when you assign an essay. It is helpful to show them examples of written pieces that meet and do not meet the expectations. As an added benefit, because the criteria are explicitly stated, the use of the rubric decreases the likelihood that students will argue about the grade they receive. The explicitness of the expectations helps students know exactly why they lost points on the assignment and aids them in setting goals for future improvement.

  • Routinely have students score peers’ essays using the rubric as the assessment tool. This increases their level of awareness of the traits that distinguish successful essays from those that fail to meet the criteria. Have peer editors use the Reviewer’s Comments section to add any praise, constructive criticism, or questions.
  • Alter some expectations or add additional traits on the rubric as needed. Students’ needs may necessitate making more rigorous criteria for advanced learners or less stringent guidelines for younger or special needs students. Furthermore, the content area for which the essay is written may require some alterations to the rubric. In social studies, for example, an essay about geographical landforms and their effect on the culture of a region might necessitate additional criteria about the use of specific terminology.
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