A 3rd grade writing checklist helps students ensure they include all essential elements in their writing tasks.
- Ideas and Content
- Clear main idea
- Interesting details
- Stays on topic
- Audience awareness
- Organization
- Has a beginning, middle, and end
- Uses paragraphs correctly
- Logical sequence of events
- Clear transitions
- Voice
- Sounds like me
- Expresses feelings
- Engaging to read
- Shows personality
- Word Choice
- Descriptive words
- Variety of words
- Uses specific nouns and verbs
- Avoids repetitive words
- Sentence Fluency
- Variety of sentence lengths
- Uses complete sentences
- Flows smoothly when read aloud
- Correct subject-verb agreement
- Conventions
- Correct spelling
- Proper punctuation
- Capitalization rules followed
- Proper grammar usage