Help Wanted! ! Due to the growing number of good girls and boys in the world, Santa’s elves are over-loaded with work! Students will help Santa to write want ads for Elf Jobs. Students will use correct capitalization, punctuation, and spacing.

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Mechanics

Sentences have no beginning or end defined

with capitals and punctuation.

Capital AND lowercase letters are used at the beginning of sentences.

Punctuation is present at the ends of sentences.

Sentences start with capitals and end with correct punctuation.

Sentence Formation No spaces between

words, and/or words are out of order within

sentences.

Words have little or too much spacing between

words. Most sentences are written correctly.

There is one finger space between all words and all sentences use correct

word order. Writing

The Help Wanted paper describes one job skill.

The Help Wanted paper describes two job skills.

The Help Wanted paper describes three or more

skills. Handwriting

Student’s handwriting is unreadable in parts.

Student’s handwriting is readable, but little effort is

evident.

Handwriting effort is evident.