There is:-

free description (also referred to as narrative description and written record) which can be used to record the behaviour of a child over a very short period of time

- tracker books, tick charts or checklists. These are methods of assessment to determine a child’s development stage.

- an event sample can be used to look closely at one aspect of a child’s development or behaviour e.g thumb sucking

- a time sample can be used to observe a child over evenly spaced intervals during a session or a pre-determined length of time.

- a target child observation is used to record one child’s activity over a long period of time without any gaps in the recording process.

Hope this helps. Pages 89 - 94 of the CCLD book by Penny Tassoni covers the above in more detail.

Mel