Developmentally Suitable Methods
A professional-development style guide for preschool/kindergarten teachers and homeschooling parents explaining and modeling Developmentally Appropriate Practice (D.A.P.) in early childhood classrooms.
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A professional-development style guide for preschool/kindergarten teachers and homeschooling parents explaining and modeling Developmentally Appropriate Practice (D.A.P.) in early childhood classrooms.
A physical-education assessment rubric for scoring students' gallop skill acquisition (locomotor movement), usable for any grade level.
A student-led parent-teacher-student conference form that students complete in advance, allowing them to lead or participate in discussing their own progress, likes/dislikes, behavior self-assessment, and goals during conference night.
A speech-therapy resource teaching students to ask questions and make comments during conversation, with visual checklists and practice worksheets for follow-up questions/comments/connections.
This Uppercase Letter Recognition Digital Assessment is an easy and effective way to assess your students' understanding of uppercase letters. Using Google Classroom, this assessment can be taken by students anywhere, at any time.
This is a Rhyming Assessment for your early leaners. There are 3 pages and answer key is included.
Provide a teacher-administered assessment of a student's ability to count aloud to 100 by ones.
Formative physical education assessment rubric for evaluating a student's leaping skill.
This K.CC.2 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson is perfect for teachers who want to help their students learn. The lesson includes worksheets, activities, assessment , and a poster, all of which are designed to help students understand and master the concept.
Provide a formative PE assessment rubric for evaluating a student's stationary ball-kicking skill technique.
A teacher-administered checklist/form for assessing a student's spoken command of standard English conventions (nouns/verbs, plural forms, question words, prepositions, complete sentences).
Provide teachers with a structured set of 19 progress-monitoring assessments to track students' phonological/phonemic awareness, reading, and spelling skills across a phonics scope-and-sequence (CVC words, consonant blends, digraphs, and related sound/spelling patterns).
A physical education formative assessment rubric for scoring students' catching skill technique.
Presenting the "Using Objects to Count Assessment Worksheet" - an exceptional digital educational tool created specifically for dedicated educators like yourself. This one-of-a-kind evaluation resource is aimed at fostering fundamental math skills in young students, guiding them to learn counting from 1 to 20 using everyday objects.…
Provide a teacher observation/anecdotal-note form for recording instances of students speaking audibly and clearly expressing thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
This K.G.6 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson is perfect for helping students compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. With this lesson, teachers can easily introduce, review, or assess their students' understanding of geometry concepts.
This teacher recording sheet supports a brief oral count-by-tens assessment. Ask the student to begin at 10 and continue to 100 while you follow the printed sequence. The three trial grids let you record later attempts and note where a student hesitates or self-corrects.
Assess students' ability to decompose numbers into two addends using pictures and equations.
This product can help teachers with kindergarten students learn shape names and attributes. The K.G.2 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson can help students name and sort shapes on cards.
A formative-assessment rubric for a physical education teacher to score students' horizontal jump technique.
This K.G.5 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson is great for helping students recognize shapes all around them! By using school materials to build shapes, students will be engaged and excited to learn.
This K.G.3 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson will help your students sort shapes into two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. This is a great way to introduce or review the concept with your class.
This K.G.1 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson helps students describe the location of specific objects. By filling in the blank with the best preposition, students will be able to better understand and utilize this skill.
This K.G.4 Kindergarten Common Core Lesson is great for helping students analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes. By sorting the shapes into similar groups, students will be able to better understand the similarities and differences between the shapes.