Assessments

Assessments Given Each Trimester

These first three tests are given by Title 1 in the beginning of the year. The rest are given by the teacher.

• Letter identification
• Sound identification
• Phonemic Awareness


• Word Test
(sight words – 3 lists each trimester but in the
beginning of the year see how far they can go)
• Spelling Inventory
• Concepts About Print (CAP)
• Fluency – not just speed but also do they read smoothly or choppy and do
they pay attention to punctuation


These are a few a the tests given in the beginning of the year. I also do a letter test and just assess if any students know how to write in the lines correctly and if they know how to write all the letters.

Natalie

This Is My Golden

Welcome to A Golden First Grade

This is my first post! Yeah! I chose this name because I teach first grade and I love, love, love Golden Retrievers! Let me know if there are any Golden Retriever fans out there following my blog! This is our first Golden and I can't imagine a better dog. ANYWAY -- my blogs will not always be about our one and only baby BUT I had to explain the title!

My hope in making this blog is to take you on a journey to yet another first grade classroom. So many of you have shared your ideas, thoughts and feelings and I want to give back. This is very, very new to me so it will definately be a learning year for me. All of your blogs are so amazing and I don't even know where to begin.

This will be my fourth year in first grade and I taught Kindergarten for nine years. I am married and I have a dog (but, of course) but no children yet. One thing I love about the younger children is that they are easily entertained with puppets. I just bought a new puppet last year (Spring Break) and I'm excited to have a special purpose for him all year this year. I can't wait!

Anyone ready for school? Day one is planned but not prepped and my classroom is set up with the bare bones but not the details.......good thing I don't start until the end of August!


Natalie