Name:

Grade:

Performance Checklist
Procedural Text

A. Speaking and Listening

The student is able to:

listen to and follow procedures correctly

tell or give correct and sequential procedures

Needs
improvement

Satisfactory

Very Good

Excellent

B. Reading
The student is able to:

decode procedural texts

read or comprehend procedural texts

use strategies to read procedural texts

Needs
improvement

Satisfactory

Very Good

Excellent

C. Writing
Needs Improvement
Below the Standard

Satisfactory
Approaching the
Standard

Does not explain the

purpose of the procedure.

Attempts to explain the

purpose of the procedure.

Explains the purpose of

the procedure.

Does not explain who will

use the procedure.

Attempts to explain who

will use the procedure.

Explains who will use the

procedure.

Equipment &
materials used:

Key equipment and

materials not listed.

Lists most of the

equipment and materials
used.

Lists all equipment and

materials used.

Method:

Includes 1 element.

Fragmented
Important steps are
missing

Includes 2 elements.

Lacks coherence
Steps are unclear

Includes 3 elements.

Logical
Lacks coherence

Includes all 4 elements.

Logical and coherent

Language not clear.

Sentence beginnings
repetitive.
Present tense not evident.
Little evidence of linking
words or technical terms.

Attempts to use clear

language.
Some variety in sentence
beginnings.
Present tense used.
Some evidence of linking
words and technical terms.

Clear language used.

A variety of sentence
beginnings used.
Present tense used.
Linking words and
technical terms used.

Many grammatical,
spelling, or punctuation
errors.

A few grammatical
spelling, or punctuation
errors.

Almost no grammatical,
spelling or punctuation
errors.

Clear and precise language

used.
A variety of action words
used as sentence
beginnings.
Present tense used.
Linking words and
technical terms used
consistently.
No grammatical, spelling
or punctuation errors.

Purpose:

Audience:

*Orders the steps

logically.
*Writes each step on a
new line.
*Each step includes
sufficient detail.
*Uses diagrams or
images.

Language
Features:

Spelling,
Punctuation and
Grammar

Very Good
Meets the Standard

Excellent
Exceeds the Standard
Explains the purpose of
the procedure in various
contexts or with examples.
Explains who will use the
procedure and provides
detailed examples.
Lists all equipment and
materials used including
the quantities.