Is it time for you to do Kindergarten assessments? A few years ago, my district implemented data dashboards. We had to have a bulletin board graphing the progress of the class as a whole on certain skills. I decided to also create individualized assessment folders so students can track their own data as well. Now I can track their data periodically, when I have time, instead of trying to get it all done right before report cards are due.
Instead of pulling students back all at once in October for report cards, I work with students individually periodically to see how they are progressing. Sometimes I work with them at center time so they don’t even know I’m assessing them! One thing I love, is having all of a child’s assessments in 1 spot! This makes it very easy if a parent or administrator has a question about how a kid is doing. I can also have my aide or parent volunteer take the folder to see what skills that particular students needs to work on.
For the cover of the 3 prong folders, I print the cover on full sheet labels. Of course, you can just glue them on too. I have a variety of covers, so you can customize a folder to your student’s skin color and hair color.
Kindergarten Literacy Assessments
I have tracking sheets included in the folder for things such as letters, beginning sounds, sight words, and numbers. My Kindergarten Assessments & Data Folders set includes some flashcards as well to use with these tracking sheets.
I use different colors of pens and crayons to graph the results and show how students are progressing.
The Dolch Primer sight words are the list I used for this file since it is a common list. However, since we all don’t teach the same sight words, I created an editable file. You can edit the sight word tracking sheet and the sight word flashcards.
Kindergarten Math Assessments
I think it is very important to let the students color in the graph. This helps them take ownership and pride in their work and progress.
The folder contains very basic Kindergarten assessments and skills. It doesn’t include every single thing I need for report card time, but these are the basic skills I felt that I needed to test verbally. I can use other worksheets to test number sense, math facts, etc. therefore I didn’t include that in the folder.
I’m sure you have your own set of assessments for report card time, but hopefully giving you the idea of creating individualized folders will help save you time by having everything for each kid all in 1 place. Grab these Kindergarten Assessment & Data folders to make your life a little easier! They are also available in my TPT store.
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