Assessment Rubrics Teaching Resources
Simplify your grading with printable assessment rubrics designed for elementary teachers, by elementary teachers. This collection of rubrics covers a host of common assignments and provides both you and your students with clear ways to measure quality of their work.
New to using this teaching tool? Here's a quick primer from the Teach Starter teacher team!
What Is an Assessment Rubric?
Put simply, an assessment rubric is a tool teachers can use to evaluate and grade student work or performance. Providing a set of criteria and standards you can use to measure the quality of a student's work or performance, rubrics typically include descriptions of different levels of performance — "excellent," "good," "fair," and "poor," for example — and specify the criteria that will be used to evaluate the work or performance.
You can use rubrics for a wide range of assessments from written essays to oral presentations, group projects, and more.
Why Should Teachers Use Rubrics?
We certainly don't recommend using rubrics for every single thing students do in your classroom, but this assessment tool could prove useful when you're looking to grade student work! Consider these benefits:
- You can use the criteria and standards specified in the rubric to measure the quality of the student's work or performance. This is the most basic usage.
- Rubrics spell out clear expectations for what a student's work should look like at different levels of performance.
- A rubric can help you identify areas where individual students need improvement.
- You can use rubrics to provide detailed and specific feedback to students.
- You can use rubrics to communicate grading criteria to your students before an assignment is due, so they fully understand the expectations of the assignment.
- Rubrics can also be used to inform instruction, allowing you to identify where your students are struggling and adjust instruction to better meet their needs.
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Emoji Themed Self-Assessment Desk Cards
Print these emoji themed self-assessment cards for students to reflect on their learning and display on their desk to indicate the level of teacher support they need.
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Transitional Reading Rubric (Lower Elementary)
A rubric to ascertain students reading phases.
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Assessment Rubric - Procedural Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' procedural writing.
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Independent Reading Rubric (Middle Elementary)
A rubric to ascertain students reading phases.
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Advanced Reading Rubric (Upper Elementary)
A rubric to ascertain students reading phases.
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Assessment Rubric - Opinion Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' opinion writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Narrative Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' narrative writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Informative Writing
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' informative writing.
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Assessment Rubric - Historical Recounts
An assessment rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' historical recounts.