iRubric: Week of Literacy Curriculum rubric

The description of the engagements is detailed and illustrates creativity and insight into how children learn about reading and writing. The engagements are deliberately child centered, literacy focused, and represent pedagogical variety while providing students with strategies to become more competent readers and writers.

The engagements are clearly presented and demonstrate understanding of how children learn to read and write. Each demonstrates familiarity with class content. Pedagogical variety is evident, and the engagements focus on developing skills in reading and writing.

The engagement description provides inadequate detail and may be teacher centered and/or lack a variety of modalities. Engagements may not provide adequate experience in reading/writing.

The standards and engagements are logically connected—a variety of standards across curriculum areas are addressed.

The standards connect to the engagements and show some evidence of working across subject areas.

The standards and engagements lack a logical coherence and/or fail to address standards across the curriculum.

Components of the unit demonstrate deep understanding and familiarity with the balanced literacy approach, and creatively incorporate modeled, shared, guided and independent reading and writing work in creative ways.

Components of the unit demonstrate familiarity with the balanced literacy approach, and there is adequate representation of modeled, shared, guided and independent reading in the engagements.

The unit lacks demonstrations of the balanced literacy approach.