FUSD Rubrics C & I - 5th grade

1. Rubrics and Report
Cards
FUSD
5th Grade

2. Comments and
Suggestions
Please go to this URL for comments and
suggestions
• http://bit.ly/rubriccomments

3. The Use of Rubrics
• Rubrics provide consistency through a common
lens
• Teachers, students, and parents have a better
understanding of expectations
• Guides instruction
• Focus on specific standards to assess performance

4. Guiding Feedback
• Four guiding questions
1. What do we know the student knows
2. What are they ready to learn
3. What do they need to practice
4. What do they need to be retaught

5. Types of Performance
Processes
Physical skills
Use of equipment
Oral communication
Work habits
Products
Constructed objects
Written essays, reports, term
papers
Other academic products
Examples
Playing a musical instrument
Preparing a microscope slide
Making a speech
Reading aloud
Working independently
Wooden bookshelf
Watercolor painting
Laboratory report
Written analysis of the effects of
the Marshall Plan

6. Rubrics
Holistic
• All criterion evaluated
simultaneously
• Advantages
• Scoring faster
• Good summative
assessment
• Disadvantage
• Does not communicate
what to improve
• Not good formative
Analytic
• Each criterion is evaluated
separately
• Advantages
• Diagnostic information
• Gives formative feedback
• Links instruction
• Adaptable
• Ability to combine scores
• Disadvantage
• More time to evaluate
when scoring multiple
items

7. Rubrics
General
• Do not need to be
rewritten for every
assignment
• Many paths to success
• Help students build on a
concept and build on a
skill and perform it well
• Can be used with many
different tasks
Task
• Function as “scoring
directions” for the person
who is grading the work
• Look at a particular task
only – not a skill
• Quick
• Not useful for formative
assessments

8. Practical Use
• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/quality-evidence-
rubric-student-assessment

9. Rubric Makers
• Common Core linked
• http://www.essaytagger.com/commoncore

10. Rubric Structure
• 4 = above and beyond, exemplary, thoroughly,
independently, consistently, routinely, concisely,
extensively, frequently, in-depth, well-organized,
convincing, vivid, unique, clear, analytical
• 3 = Meets standards as stated
• What words separate a 2 and a 1?

11. Reading Literature Standard

12. Create Rubric
• ELA 5 RL 6
• Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view
influences how events are described.
• What type of standard is this – Process, Product, or Both
• Plug in standard for 3
• Scale up for 4
• Scale down for 2 and 1

13. Using Rubrics with Report
Cards and Grade Book
• Grade for one or two standards only per lesson,
assignment, HW, or assessment
• Think as the presenting the WHOLE and only
viewing pieces….
1 2 3
• Link to standard in grade book
• Use information to drive instruction

14. How to Apply
• Sign in to Fremont Unified – Teacher Resources –
Report Cards - 5th grade
• Science
• History
• Technology
• Productivity, Digital Literacy
• Keyboarding
• Physical Education