Students were asked to write a narrative that used 10 occurrences of dialogue. They were expected to follow proper conventions, like capitalization, punctuation, and use complete thoughts. This was also combined with a spelling assignment where they were expected to use 10 spelling words.
Rubric
Rubrics were printed on sticky notes that would be put on their final work.
Student Sample
This student was an English Language Learner. Although some of the narrative strays off topic, he followed conventions. Most of his troubles come from Quote Rule #4, Begin a new paragraph whenever the speaker in the narrative changes.