Writing+-+Word+Choice

SCORE 5.0 || More complex content || SCORE 4.0 || Target learning Goal || SCORE 3.0 || Simpler content || SCORE 2.0 || With help, partial success of score 2.0, or basic or elemental content || SCORE 10 || Even with help, no success ||
 * = = Marzanno’s Generic Scale = ||

SCORE 5.0 ||< Selects precise vocabulary, considering connotation and denotation; uses compelling verbs and figurative language (e.g., extended and illustrative metaphors, irony, understatement) to develop voice and to communicate with and appeal to the intended audience. || SCORE 4.0 || Selects precise vocabulary (e.g., appropriate use of standard or nonstandard words or phrases, compelling verbs, figurative language including illustrative metaphors and similes, rhetorical questions, detailed images and examples) to develop voice and to communicate with and appeal to the intended audience. || SCORE 3.0 || Selects precise vocabulary (e.g., appropriate use of standard or nonstandard words or phrases), compelling verbs, figurative language (e.g., metaphor, appropriate idiomatic expressions) to achieve intended effects (e.g., formal or informal tone, credible voice) and to communicate with and appeal to the intended audience. || SCORE 2.0 || Selects vocabulary, strong verbs, rhetorical questions, and figurative language (e.g., metaphors, similes, appropriate idiomatic expressions) to achieve intended effects (e.g., formal or informal tone, credible voice) and to communicate with and appeal to the audience. || SCORE 1.0 || Uses vocabulary, strong verbs, and figurative language (e.g., metaphors, similes) to create a formal or informal tone and voice, with an awareness of audience. || Uses vocabulary, strong verbs, and figurative language (e.g., metaphors, similes) to create tone and voice and appeal to the audience. ||
 * = ** Writing – Word Choice ** ||