TIME SAMPLE RECORD FORMAT

TIME SAMPLE FOCUS CHILD: DATE: 3/9/14

RECORD CONTEXT: Reading AGE: 2 years 9
PURPOSE FOR months
DOCUMENTATION:
DURATION: 5 minutes
INTERVAL: 1 minute
DOCUMENTED BY: Claire
TIME EVENTS COMMENTS
3:00pm .. picks up a board book .is able to
off the shelf and sits down on recognise animals
the couch with me and looks
at the pictures of the animals
3:01pm . picks up another book is able to
and looks at the colours on distinguish
the pages between the
colours
3:02pm ..picks up another book . is able to
and asks me if I can read it to communicate
her verbally
3:03pm .looks at all the pictures is able to
on the page once I read the figure out what the
page and tells me what the pictures are of
picture is of once I have read
the pages
3:04pm goes through the pages She is able to
and points out the colours figure out most of
she knows the colours used
throughout the
book
3:05pm puts all the books away . knows that
once she has
finished an activity
she must pack it
away
What this documentation tells us:

Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners as. is

able to transfer the colours she has learnt about in the child care
Centre and experiment with the colours in the books she picks up.

Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators as. is able to

communicate with me to express her ideas about the books and
also to ask me to read one of the books she picked up off the shelf.