Designing and Using Rubrics for Reading and Language Arts provides teacherswith a stepbystep guide to creating and using rubrics to meet studentsneeds. This com... » 

Designing and Using Rubrics for Reading and Language Arts provides teacherswith a stepbystep guide to creating and using rubrics to meet studentsneeds. This comprehensive resource offers an overview of rubrics as an teachingtool directions for creating rubrics and over 40 examples of rubrics thatcover key language processes and skills at the primary and middle schoollevels.The author also includes suggestions for introducing the rubrics to studentsmaking assignments and using the rubrics to assess student understanding. Thisrevised edition presents expanded coverage of the process of developingrubrics and features several new rubrics that address narrative writingpersuasive writing comprehension monitoring the use of presentation softwareand information literacy skills. «