Assessment Freebie with Heidi from Swamp Frog First Graders!

Hello,
My name is Heidi and I write the Swamp Frog First Graders Blog!

Getting things ready for back to school ... for me that be teachers going back July 30th and kids starting August 6th....YIKES....where did summer go?

Getting started in first grade means lots of assessments to see where the kids are!  And you kinder teachers will be close behind with those assessments so you may want to hear about how I assess my students!

One of my favorite assessments to help me quickly place students into a "reading grouping" at the beginning of the year is the "San Diego Quick Assessment"...

If you do a Google or Bing search on "San Diego Quick Assessment", you'll have a multitude of sites and pdf formats to download.  

I find it to be a quick and simple assessment to help me quickly place my kiddos into small groups before the first two weeks of school are over. As more testing data is aquired and observations are made, I can move the kids from group to group as needed....however, I find this quick little assessment is usually pretty good about putting them into a good fit group right from the get go :) 

I've created a power point to go with the Pre-Primer through the Fourth grade lists of words so that I don't have to have any papers sitting on my desk.  

I downloaded the powerpoint onto my iPad so that the kids can swish through the words as they read them.  You can download a copy of the Power Point for the San Diego Quick Assessment Words Here.

Since most teachers don't have iPad's (wouldn't that be nice,)  you can also refer to this Powerpoint for the same words?

Download the Picture files here.  I've zipped the file to help with the download.


I have a recording sheet I downloaded from the internet to keep track of their scores.  

Hope you hop by the Swamp and see what other things I'm cooking up to have a 

"Frog-a-licous" year!

Have a great day!

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