Success comes when expectations are met; so knowing those expectations before embarking on differentiated learning tasks is vital for all populations of students, including the gifted. Clearly stated guidelines in rubrics also serve to focus, pace, and motivate young gifted learners. Consider the different advantages of simple, complex, holistic, analytic, formative, summative, task-specific, and unit rubrics. Since time constraints are always a concern, the use of formative criteria cards, primary-level task checklists, and simple rubrics to streamline this assessment process are presented and a variety of teacher-created models for criteria cards, checklists, and rubrics will be shared.