Narrative

• Plot
• Setting
• Dialogue
• Character Traits
• Details (show don’t tell)
• Internal Thinking
• Deeper Meaning
• Figurative Language (simile, metaphor, personification, etc)

Informational

• Thesis
• Subtopics
• Facts
• Evidence (proper citations, work cited)
• Elaboration (say, mean, matter)
• Text Structures (problem/solution, Sequence, Cause/effect, etc)
• Transition words
• Text Features (photos, maps, text boxes, bold words, etc.)
• Raise Implications

Argument

• Claim
• Reasons
• Evidence (proper citations, works cited)
• Elaboration (say, mean, matter)
• Counterargument
• Transition words

Narrative

SBAC Prompt: Robots Narrative Performance Task

SBAC Rubric: Narrative

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Student Examples

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Informational

SBAC Prompt: World’s Fair Inventions Explanatory Performance Task

SBAC Rubric: Informational

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Argument

SBAC Prompt: Keeping the Community Clean Argumentative Performance Task

SBAC Rubric: Argumentative

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