Tracking student progress and mastery is an important part of administering kindergarten assessments. These free data tracking sheets can help you monitor the progress of each individual student in your classroom throughout the year.

Why do I need assessments?

Assessing students is a necessary and tedious task in the classroom. They help you better plan your lessons and make necessary adjustments to meet your students’ needs.

It is always a good idea to keep assessments for your students to revisit for parent-teacher conferences, IEP meetings, etc. Once your student has completed an assessment, slip it into a folder designated for that student. Then when you are evaluating the needs of that students, you have all their past assessments in one place!

These are great, but I need assessments too!

If you are looking for a quick and simple way to manage this task, Rapid Results half-page assessments are perfect for you! The kindergarten assessments were developed to provide you with an easy way to test your students on concepts they are required to learn.

Are these checklists editable?

No, but there is additional space for you to add other concepts you are required to test for on each page.

What specific skills are covered?

Counting and Cardinality

• Count forward and backward to 20

• Count to 100 by ones and tens

• Write numbers 0 to 20

• Represent a number of objects with a numeral 0-20

• Recognize the quantity of a small group instantly

• Count to answer “how many?”

• Given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects

• Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group

• Compare two numerals between 1 and 10

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Represent addition and subtraction

• Solve addition and subtraction word problems

• Add and subtract within 10

• Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 in more than one way

• Make 10 with numbers 1 to 9

• Fluently add and subtract within 5

Number and Operations

• Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into tens and ones

• Identify U.S. coins by name

Measurement and Data

• Describe measurable attributes of objects

• Compare objects using measurable attributes

• Collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories

• Use data to create graphs

• Draw conclusions from graphs

Geometry

• Name shapes

• Identify shapes as 2D or 3D

• Identify attributes of 2D shapes

• Analyze and compare 2D and 3D shapes

• Model shapes in the world

• Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes

Print Awareness

• Identify upper- and lower-case letters

• Form upper- and lower-case letters

• Capitalize the first letter in a sentence

• Use punctuation at the end of a sentence

• Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence between a spoken word and a printed word in text

• Recognize the difference between a letter and a printed word

• Recognize that sentences are comprised of words separated by spaces

• Hold a book right side up, turn its pages correctly, and know that reading moves from top to bottom and left to right

• Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book

Phonological Awareness

• Write name

• Identify syllables in spoken words

• Orally generate rhymes in response to spoken words

• Distinguish orally presented rhyming pairs of words from non-rhyming pairs

• Recognize spoken alliteration

• Blend spoken onsets and rimes

• Blend spoken phonemes to form one-syllable words

• Isolate the initial sound in one-syllable spoken words

• Segment spoken one-syllable words into two or three phonemes

• Add or substitute individual sounds in words

• Associate long and short sounds for the five major vowels

Phonics

• Identify the common sounds that letters represent

• Decode CVC words

• Decode CCVC words

• Decode CVCC words

• Recognize that new words are created when letters are changed, added, or deleted

• Identify and read sight words

• Form regular plural nouns by adding /s/ or /es/

Reading

• Predict what might happen next in text

• Respond to questions about text

• Identify setting, character, and key events

• Discuss the big idea

• Recognize sensory details

• Recognize recurring phrases and characters

• Retell a main event from a story read aloud

• Describe characters in a story and the reasons for their actions

• Identify the topic of an informational text

Vocabulary

• Recognize that compound words are made up of shorter words

• Identify and sort pictures of objects into categories

• Understand and use prepositions

Writing

• Dictate or write sentences to tell a story in order

• Write a short poem

• Write lists

• Write captions

• Spell simple words phonetically