After many years of cutting out rubrics and stapling them on to writing samples, I realized I could embed them into the actual writing template! This has saved tons of time, trees, not to mention my hands (no more cutting out rubrics)! These templates were game changers the second I brought them into the classroom. My favorite thing about these writing templates is that it made grading writing more consistent. I no longer wondered what deserved As, Bs, Cs, etc. I simply follow the rubric criter