Assessment measures how well students are doing in school. In addition to giving feedback on students' progress, assessment provides important information to school staff and parents to guide them in helping students meet promotion standards and earn promotion to the next grade. Both are essential to effective instruction, and both focus on what is taught and what students should know and be able to do. The chart below shows the ways kindergartners are assessed in English language arts and mathematics. Ongoing Assessment uses student work that teachers and students collect in class to measure progress and plan appropriate instruction.
Teachers use ongoing assessment to provide students with continuous feedback on their progress.
Begin choosing books to read, re-read, and have read to them. Hear one or two books a day read to them in school and two more outside of school. Hold books right side up and turn pages in the right direction. Distinguish between print and pictures in literature and be able to follow along with the text. Locate parts of a book such as beginning and end.