Baseline Reading Assessments

I can't believe how fast the school year is going already!  We are already into our fourth week of school.  Over the past few weeks I have been doing baseline assessments on my students.  This summer I took an online PALS-K assessment class.  Since my school does not have an official kindergarten screening program I have taken some of the tasks from the PALS-K assessment and created my own to align with them.  After sitting down with each student I completed the baseline part of the assessment (I use the same packet for every subject) I took the "letter identification" and "letter sound" assessment and using a highlighter and a class grid sheet (I know very high tech) marked the letters or sounds that each student didn't know.  Now I have a visual of the needs of my students and can focus on those specific areas.

Here is the link to the assessment checklist I created: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7rxkDqYdsHMeURwUi1WNkZOdms/edit?usp=sharing