A FREEBIE to Create Small Groups for Math Fact Fluency & Letter ID/Sight Word Fluency

I know we are all expected to get our students fluent with math facts to some degree before they leave our classrooms.  I found an easy way to keep track of who needs work with what strategy and type of facts, allowing me to provide interventions and accelerations all at once.  Swing on in to Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business to grab your freebie AND see some of the changes I made this year to ensure that my students FLEW with their math fact fluency and sight word fluency!

Colors Assessment Ring Freebie

As a special education pre-school teacher my world pretty much revolves around data. Data, data, data! I'm always assessing on different skills and IEP goals. To help make that easier for me I've begun to create a set of assessment rings.

Each ring will have multiple ways to assess the child on that particular skill. The first set I've made is for colors. The full pack includes 7 different ways to assess students on colors. I've created a {FREE} sample pack that includes one of the seven question sets.

If you want to read more about the full pack with all 7 different sets of assessment questions, click {here} to go to my blog and see the post.

Click the picture above to download the free set question set!

Up next: shapes! 

Kindergarten Assessment Notebook

Hi freebie friends! I am getting my assessment notebook ready for the 2014 school year! I keep this notebook in my small group area. I love having all of my assessment sheets in one place!

I have included some literacy freebies today! 

Hop on over to my blog to grab your freebie! 

Last Minute Earth Day & Assessment Freebies!

Wow… did Earth Day sneak up on us or what?

Here's a couple Earth Day freebies for your kinder and first graders!

All the way down at the bottom is this great NSF practice freebie as well!  Testing time is just around the corner!  Not sure if I am really ready or not!

As well as a bunch of other freebies in that same post!
(I think there are 5 freebies for various topics all in that one post!)

Have a great week everyone!

Kindergarten Early Assessment

Greetings friends! I recently posted this freebie on my blog facebook but I've had a huge response from teachers who weren't able to grab it on the 4th so I decided to share it on Freebielicious. 

How do you create classes for the upcoming year? Do you have a say? I think teachers should have the greatest say because we know our strengths and weaknesses. Since I have a son that has sensory issues and mild aspergers, I understand kids with the same developmental concerns and I feel confident that I can teach them. I feel that would be a strength for me while others may not feel the same way. 

Each year, about two weeks before school starts, my team meets at school and prints out the list of all incoming kindergarten students (that have registered so far). We divide up the names and start calling parents. We invite students to come up to school one afternoon for a pre-screening. We call it the KEA (Kindergarten Early Assessment). We set up different tables in the cafeteria and each of us (along with the aides that are back on contract) takes a table and section to test. Students arrive during the set time (usually 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. so parents can come during their lunch) and they hop from table to table. Students are tested on letters, sounds, numbers, 1-1, etc. When we are finished with all the testing (and usually about 65% or more of the kids show up) we score the sheets and fill in any notes. This is a great way for us to get to know the students before they come to school for meet the teacher. Then, we take all of this information and build our classes. This really helps us build more balanced classrooms. We take in account of gender, race, birthday, and the KEA because we want very balanced classrooms.  It takes us a long time to ensure that our classes are truly built on the best interest of our students. 

So,  I created this early assessment for this year. You can always add to it if you want. You will need number flash cards 1-20 (because I forgot to attach them, oopsie!). I hope you love the idea as much as I do. 

Also, at the end of the school year, we create the classes for next year's first grade before leaving for the summer. Since we know our kids best, we know who will work together best (who needs to be separated) and how to build classes based upon our students' needs. Luckily our first grade teachers are AWESOME. We also know them well too and know their strengths, which makes a world of difference when you are considering all children and individual needs. It takes us a few hours to build classes but it's worth it!

Please feel free to stop by my blog, ask questions and say hi too! To grab this freebie, click the picture above or click HERE. Have a great day!

  

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Gearing Up For DIBELS

Getting ready for DIBELS!  (Sigh)

So here are 2 quick freebies to help you prepare!  

I use these practice pages in fluency centers, for homework, and for just quick moments to fill.  

Dolch Assessment Kits

Is it time to assess your students knowledge of sight words?  Have you got some students that are difficult to assess?  I actually assess my students every day (or most days) on their sight words.  They each have a word right and take it home every night to practice.  It only takes a minute to run through the words and I mark it down on these sheets.  Since I teach special education, I also included instructions on how to assess a student with little or no verbal skills.  Click on either picture to head on over to my blog to grab them for free.

Common Core Language Review Sheet

Are you looking for some kindergarten common core language assessments?

Click the image below to get a free rhyming assessment!

Enjoy!

Free DIBELS Downloads for Kinder

Three DIBELS Freebies - Click the link to download!

                                                 Hop on over to get your free downloads!

November Freebies!

November Countdown Calendar - good for tracking books, earning incentives, or really anything you want to count!  Two November options for you!

Letter Naming Fluency Pages - good for practicing letter names and sounds.  Read as a class, read individually with a timer, circle the uppercase/cross out the lower.  So many options!

NonSense Word Fluency - great for reading independently again.  Or read with partners!  

Click on the images above to get your freebies!

More to come throughout the month!