Assessment

This checklist is organized by fine and gross motor skills.

A great way to keep track of a child's upper- and lower-case letter recognition.

Use this simple form to record a child's observed development.

Use this form to analyze a child's abilities in the following areas:  play, self-help, self-concept, social, language/communication, motor, dispositions, problem solving, math, and literacy.

Use this to assess children's phonological awareness skills.  Areas include:

• Concept of spoken word
• Rhyme recognition
• Rhyme production
• Syllable blending
• Syllable segmentation
• Syllable deletion
• Phoneme isolation of initial sounds
• Phoneme isolation of final sounds

Record and assess which sounds your students (or children) know with this worksheet.

This letter can be sent home to explain to parents how and why portfolio assessments are being used.

Record the lowercase letters a child correctly identifies with this worksheet.

Use this worksheet to assess and record the uppercase letters a child knows.

Determine a child's literacy skills with this two-page form.

Analyze a child's work habits by using the checklist provided for each category:  separation, self-care, physical development, social skills, emotional development, speech and language development, memory and attention span, math and science, literacy, creativity, self-identity, group time behaviors, and interaction with adults.

Check either yes or no for each question to help determine your toddler's language abilities.

How many words can your child identify?  Circle each word that is read correctly.  Recommended testing times are September, November, January, March, and May.  Aim for 100% correct by the last test date!

Assess a child's knowledge of numbers 1 through 20 using this worksheet.

Rubric includes a 1-4 rating scale for the writing areas (focus, content, organization, style, conventions).

Analyze your child's speech and language skills.

Simple one-page overview for each child.  Areas include:

• Uppercase and lowercase letters
• Uppercase and lowercase letter sounds
• Counting 1-100
• Types of patterns
• 1:1 Correspondence
• Making sets
• Number recognition
• Denver II Screening results
• Outline of a person - have the child draw/decorate themselves

Dolch sight words for each grade level.

Answer yes or no to these twelve questions to determine a young infant's language skills.

Have children follow the directions and color the shapes.  Can be used to assess shape or color word identification.