Grading Rubric Advocacy Letter
Demonstrate leadership, advocacy and professionalism in the field of early education.
Write a professional letter to the appropriate federal legislative representative. Make sure you are writing to your correct Senator or
Representative in Congress. In your letter, please observe the following format:
1. State your chosen social justice/advocacy issue related to young children, families, and/or the early childhood profession
2. Concisely state your position regarding the issue;
3. Enumerate at least two reasons supporting your position;
4. State the action you would like the representative to take.
Letters must be no more than one typewritten page. They should also be single-spaced with a space separating each paragraph. Be
sure to research to whom this letter should be written and how it should be addressed.
Total Points 100
Advocacy Letter
Letter advocates for
young children, families, and/or
the early childhood profession.
Does not Meet Expectations
Meets Expectations
Exemplary
0-15
16-20
Topic relates to advocacy for
21-25
Content
0-15
Letter is vague and unclear, Issues
are not defined or documented
16-20
Student’s position is stated poorly
and includes fewer than 2 reasons.
21-25
Student states position,
and includes at least 2
reasons supporting the
position.
Letter includes student’s position
regarding the issue;
and enumerates at least two
reasons supporting the position.
Letter includes action desired by
representative.
Form
Letter is addressed to appropriate
representative.
Letter is in appropriate business
letter format
Mechanics
Letter is free from mechanical and
grammatical errors
Topic of letter does not relate to
advocacy for young children,
families, and/or the early
childhood profession.
Letter strongly
young children, families, and/or
advocates for
the early childhood profession but young children,
is poorly defined or vague.
families, and/or the
early childhood
profession. Issues
are well defined
and documented
Action desired by representative is
not stated.
Action desired by
representative is stated.
0-15
Letter is not addressed to a
representative.
16-20
Letter is addressed to a
representative, but not the correct
one for student’s jurisdiction.
25
Letter is properly
addressed and in the
proper format.
Letter is not in proper format.
Letter has fewer than 3 errors in
formatting.
0-19
Letter is poorly written. It has more
than 5 mechanical or grammatical
errors
20
Letter has less than 5 grammatical
errors
25
Letter has only 1 or 2
grammatical or
mechanical errors.
Adapted from: http://ricreport.org/spa/Early_Childhood_Education_B.A/ECED%20419%20Advocacy%20Letter.pdf