Friendly Letter Rubric
Criteria
4
3
Salutation
and Closing
Salutation and
closing have no
errors in
placement,
punctuation, or
capitalization.
Salutation and
closing have
few errors and
are placed
appropriately
Body of
Letter
Sentences and
paragraphs are
complete, wellwritten, varied
sentence
structure and
vocabulary.
Uses Basic
Writing
Conventions
No errors in
grammar or
spelling in body
of letter
Neatness
Legibly
handwritten or
typed with no
distracting
errors.
2
Salutation and
closing have 3
or more
errors. One or
both not
correctly
placed
All sentences
Most
are complete
sentences are
and well
complete and
written with no well written.
fragments or
Paragraphs
run-ons.
are
Paragraphing is unorganized.
generally well
done.
2-3 errors in
Several errors
capitalization
in grammar or
or punctuation spelling in
in body of
body of letter
letter that do that interfere
not interfere
in meaning.
in meaning.
Legibly
written, easy
to read with 12 distracting
errors.
Several
distracting
errors that
make portions
difficult to
read.
1
Salutation
and/or closing
missing
Many sentence
fragments or
run on
sentences. No
evidence of
paragraphing
Many errors in
spelling and/or
grammar in
body of letter
that make the
letter illegible.
Many
distracting
errors making
it illegible.
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