Cobb County Middle School Proficiency Chart
Title/Topic:
Student:
CRITERIA
Structure
C
O
N
T
E
N
T
Focus/controlling idea
Supporting ideas
Organization
Development
Completeness
Teacher Focus
Style
Word Choice
Voice/individuality
Tone
Audience
Transitions
Teacher Focus
Mechanics
Spelling
Capitalization
Punctuation
Visual format
Teacher Focus
C
O
N
V
E
N
T
I
O
N
S
Grammar/Usage
Parts of Speech
Tenses/ Subject-Verb Agreement
Possessives
Personal Pronoun/Pronoun Reference
Modifiers
Teacher Focus
Sentence Formation
End Punctuation
Complete Sentences
Sentence Structure/Variety
Coordination/Subordination
Teacher Focus
COMMENTS:
Sixth
SEVENTH
Date:
EIGHTH
□ Writes paragraphs that include a
controlling idea and supporting details.
□Produces paragraphs and compositions
for a variety of purposes.
□Experiments with the organization of
various types of multi-paragraph writing,
using controlling ideas, supporting details,
and appropriate development.
□ Produces various types of focused writing for a
variety of purposes that demonstrate a strong
controlling idea, supporting details, logical
organization, and a sense of completeness.
□ Demonstrates development that has fluency,
depth, and balance.
□Identifies tone and approach in writing
□Experiments with sense of audience in
written work.
□Uses descriptive phrases, varied word
choice, and dialogue in writing.
□ Experiments with transitions.
□Experiments with tone and approach in
writing.
□Writes with a sense of audience using
varied word choice, dialogue, precise
language (accurate or technical), and
engaging language (descriptive or figurative).
□Experiments with transitions within and
between paragraphs.
□Engages audience using tone, approach, varied
word choice, dialogue, precise and engaging
language.
□Demonstrates transitions within and between
paragraphs.
□Revises for correct use of internal
punctuation, spelling, format (paragraph
breaks, dialogue, margins, spacing
between words), and capitalization.
□Demonstrates the correct use of internal
punctuation, spelling, format (paragraph
breaks, dialogue, margins, spacing between
words), and capitalization.
□Experiments with the manipulation of the
conventions of mechanics for dramatic effect
(capitalization, repeated punctuation)
□Consistently demonstrates the correct use of
internal punctuation, spelling, format (paragraph
breaks, dialogue, margins, spacing between words),
and capitalization.
□Effectively manipulates the conventions of
mechanics for dramatic effect (capitalization,
repeated punctuation).
□Revises for the correct use of subjectverb agreement, cases of personal
pronouns, principal parts of verbs,
comparisons of adjectives, adverbs, and
possessive pronouns versus contracted
pronouns.
□Demonstrates and applies the standards of
American English to subject-verb agreement,
cases of personal pronouns, pronouns
reference, principals parts of verbs,
comparisons of adjectives, adverbs, and
possessive pronouns versus contracted
pronouns.
□Experiments with dialect, idiom, and
nonstandard language within a quotation.
□Writes simple and compound sentences
with clarity
□Experiments with the use of sentence
variation (length, type, sentence beginnings,
coordination, and subordination) for specific
purposes
□Uses appropriate end punctuation
□Consistently demonstrates and applies the
standards of American English to subject-verb
agreement, cases of personal pronouns, pronoun
reference, principal parts of verbs, comparisons of
adjectives, adverbs, and possessive pronouns versus
contracted pronouns. □Manipulates the conventions
of usage for effect using dialect, idiom, and
nonstandard language within a quotation.
□Writes simple and compound sentences
with clarity.
□Revises to avoid run-ons and nonfunctional fragments.
□Varies sentence types (interrogative,
declarative, imperative, and exclamatory)
□Uses appropriate end punctuation
□Forms effective, complete sentences and
functional fragments with clarity of meaning.
□Varies sentences by length, type, sentence
beginnings, coordination, and subordination.
□Uses appropriate end punctuation