With my two weeks off I have started reading a new book, Kindergarten Literacy by Anne McGill-Franzen. This is a great practice and theory type of book. This year my professional goal and teacher evaluation revolve around students data and assessment. I have that total nerdy side where I LOVE to keep data! crazy I know.
The book starts off by talking about the importance of assessing students, so you can make sure you are challenging students no matter what their level is. And sometimes the curriculum guide is not always the best route! For example is half of your class knows their letters and sounds and the other half barely knows any, is it really that helpful to teach a letter a week???? I don't think so, you need to keep challenging your above benchmark students while while doing interventions with your below benchmark students.
The assessments they suggest are: Letter-sound identification, phonological awareness, print concepts, spelling, text writing, word writing, text reading, and word reading. They also provide how to do the assessments, copies of the forms, and class recording sheet. They also give samples of student work to compare with your student's work.
I really recommend this book! I will post later what my data binder looks like, and some student work samples.
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