Kindergarten Formative Assessment

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An important part of instruction is the use of assessments that follow! This is especially important for our younger elementary students. They are entering Kindergarten with many different skill sets. It is beneficial for us to find out what they know, so we can properly serve them moving forward. This is why formative assessments are so important. We administer formative assessments at the start of the year, the middle of the school year, and at the end of the school year.

This is a Kindergarten Formative Assessment that can be utilized at any time you need to administer benchmark assessments or collect data on a particular student.

This assessment comes in an editable PowerPoint with 16 slides.

The skills included are:

--Uppercase and lowercase letters. Students will use the primary writing lines to write a single letter on each line.

--Numbers. Students will use the primary writing lines to write a single number on each line. There is enough space for students to write numbers 1 – 20.

--Uppercase Letter Recognition. Students will look at each letter (with letters out of order) and name the letter. There are 6 sheets printed on a single page.

--Lowercase Letter Recognition. Students will look at each letter (with letters out of order) and name the letter. There are 6 sheets printed on a single page.

--Letter Sounds. Students will look at each letter (in alphabetical order) and name the sound that letter makes. There are 6 sheets printed on a single page.

--Number Recognition. Students will look at each number (with numbers out of order) and name the number. There are 6 sheets printed on a single page.

--Counting to 100 by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s. Students will count out loud by 1’s, 5’s, and then 10’s. You will note what their last correct number was in each section. There are 6 sheets printed on a single page.

--Count Objects. Students will count 20 objects. You will note the total number counted correctly. There are 6 sheets printed on a single page.

--Read Numbers. Students will look at each number word (with words out of order) and read the word. There are 6 sheets printed on a single page.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Write uppercase and lowercase letters and numerals on primary writing lines.
Demonstrate letter recognition, letter sounds, number recognition, counting and number-word reading during individual checks.

Teaching tips

Administer each page as a one-on-one check rather than a whole-class worksheet, since it records individual student performance
Reuse each observation sheet across its six dated rows to build a simple progress record for each student over the year
Keep results in a student's individual folder to inform small-group instruction planning

Skills covered

Uppercase and lowercase letter writing and recognition
Letter-sound recognition
Reading number words

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How is the file meant to be reused across the school year?

The seven observation sheets repeat their skill checks across six dated rows. The other nine slides provide letter- and number-writing spaces and can be printed again for later checks.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

RF.K.1d

Core concepts

Formative assessment
Letter recognition
Number recognition
Kindergarten readiness

Topics

Kindergarten assessment Formative assessment Skill tracking Early learning

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