Common Core Literacy Observation Guide
Teacher
Date/period/subject
Observer
Learning target
Text
Title of the text (Fiction or nonfiction)
Notes:
Level of complexity
Explicit reading skill taught
Metacognition
Text features
Annotation
Close reading skills
Context clues
Text evidence
Discourse
Amount of time students were engaged in discourse
Explicit discourse skill being taught
Speaking in complete sentences
Responding to the speaker
Prompting others to speak
Using evidence in argument
Being swayed by the speaker
Using reasoning
Respecting the speaker
Wait time
Artifacts used to support successful discourse
Sentence stems
Discourse notes or annotations
Rubric
Speaker tracker
Text
Accountability system for discourse
Teacher observation
Class points
Peer observation
Rubric use
Follow up work
Writing
Amount of time students spent writing
Explicit writing skill being taught
Revision
Claim
Analysis
Drafting
Evidence
Editing
Reasoning
Audience Awareness
Artifacts used to support successful writing
Outline
Rubrics
Model piece Protocols
Word bank
Text
Accountability system for writing
Teacher feedback
Rubric use
Peer feedback
Criteria for success
Model piece
Published writing
Notes:
Notes:
Thought, heard…
Glows:
Grows:
Wondered,
thought