Assessment

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Kindergarten readiness has never been so easy with these Kindergarten sight words, counting, games, and educational crafts for children. Some of the fun kindergarten readiness activities include sight word sundaes, counting flags, counting eggs, bingo, sudoku and handprint art. Your kindergartener is so excited! The Tip Junkie Creative Community has Kindergarten Crafts and Kindergarten activities with pictured tutorials and free patterns if you're looking for more simple crafts for kids with…

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I’m excited to share with you my Number Formation Rhymes! I’ve been teaching my little ones how to write numbers and wanted some rhymes to help them remember the formations. I found these rhymes and decided to make my own posters for our school room. These rhymes are a great way for little ones remember …

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Assessment can be difficult for both teachers and students, depending on how it’s done. Here’s a super simple little trick for assessment that I call Hop Across the Pond. It can be used for a lot of different things, but I use it mostly for assessment of students’ sight word knowledge. I used to ask my students to read through a list of sight words and tick off the ones they knew; I’d use this for reporting and to know which words to [Read More...]

Have you ever given your students the opportunity to record and listen to themselves read? As teachers, we frequently observe and conference with our students about their oral reading fluency. However, it can be much more meaningful for students to actually hear and evaluate themselves. Last year I started doing fluency self-evaluations as a center and was very pleased with the ownership my students began to take toward achieving their reading goals. My second graders used the free workflow…

Cooperative Learning: This free PDF packet includes documents for self evaluation, peer evaluation, progress assessment, group checklist, two rubrics, and...

Preschool assessments are a great way to record a child's progress throughout the school year. Last year, we had an cream party on the last day of preschool and I wanted to use an assessment that went along with our ice cream theme. Below is the assessment we used, you will also see a beginning of the year assessment with the same theme that has different wording. We had a lot of fun with this theme and will be using it about for this coming school year. Beginning of school year preschool…