quick write sample
prompts
1. What is your favorite television show? Why?
2. If you could go to any place in the world, where would you
visit? Who would be your travel buddies? Why?
3. What is your favorite place in your city/town? Why?
4. Analyze the characteristics of a great best friend. What
makes a person a good friend? Provide evidence from your life
experiences.
5. Dou you prefer Instagram or SnapChat? Why? Support your
answer with evidence.
6. Who is the best musical artist? Why? Support your answer
with evidence.
7. What would be your ideal school? Describe how your classes
would look and sound. Support your answer with evidence.
8. Compare and contrast a character from a book you just read.
Support your answer with evidence from the text.
9. Provide a summary of your day at school yesterday. Reflecting
back, how could you have made your day great?
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Quick Write Rubric
TRAITS OF FOCUS CONCLUDING
ORGANIZATION EVIDENCE CONVENTIONS
WRITING STATEMENT SENTENCE
• Somewhat focused on • Some of the paragraph is • Some opinions and • The sentence is • Includes incomplete
responding to the organized and may be interpretations of the text incomplete and does not sentences
prompt (may have missing the focus can be understood summarize the • Many errors that
difficulty getting back statement, supporting • Somewhat limited paragraph. impact readability
on topic or may stray details, and/or concluding explanation of evidence • Uses bullets
often) sentence • 1-2 pieces of evidence • 1 compound and/or
• Demonstrates gaps in • Evidence and supporting from the text complex sentence
2
understanding of key details are not often
ideas introduced in a order
• Ideas can be sometimes
understood by reader
• No attempt to focus on • Paragraph is not • 0pinions and • The concluding • Response is
the prompt or organized and missing the interpretations are sentence does not indecipherable and
substitutes a different focus statement, difficult to understand connect to the focus incoherent
task supporting, details and • Little or no attempt at statement and does • Simple sentences only
• Demonstrates little or concluding sentence. explanation of evidence not summarize the
no understanding of • Evidence and supporting • 0-1 piece of evidence from paragraph.
1 key ideas details are randomly
presented or merely listed
the text
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Quick Write Rubric
TRAITS OF FOCUS CONCLUDING
ORGANIZATION EVIDENCE CONVENTIONS
WRITING STATEMENT SENTENCE
• Tightly focused on • Paragraph is highly • Perceptive and insightful • The sentence is complete • Uses complete
responding to the organized with a focus opinions and and restates the focus sentences
prompt statement, supporting interpretations statement. • No errors that
• Demonstrates deep details, and concluding • Superior explanation of impact readability
understanding of key sentence evidence • Includes 3 or more
ideas • Evidence and supporting • 3 or more pieces of compound and/or
details are introduced in a evidence from the text complex sentences
4 mostly logical and
effective order
• Ideas can be easily
understood by reader
• Largely focused on • Paragraph is mostly • Opinions and • The sentence is complete • Uses complete
responding to the organized with a focus interpretations of the text and summarizes the sentences
prompt (may stray in statement, supporting can be understood paragraph • Few errors that may
areas, but gets quickly details, and concluding • Sufficient explanation of impact readability
back on topic) sentence evidence • Includes 2 compound
• Demonstrates • Evidence and supporting • 2-3 pieces of evidence and/or complex
understanding of key details are introduced in a from the text sentences
3 ideas generally logical and
effective order
• Ideas can be understood
by reader
Created by Millie Williams © Adventures in ESL