1. Kindergarten Screening Process & Data School Board Presentation October 13, 2004

2. The Assessment Colors Counting Number & letter recognition Sight words Shapes Patterns Phonemic Awareness Concepts of Print A B C cat / sat 1,2,3…

3. Teacher-graded Items Writes numerals Color & cut sample Name sample

4. The cadre Two teams of 5 paraeducators Visit 1-2 sites/ day; more on “catch-up” days Screen each Kindergarten student individually Each test takes approximately 25 minutes

5. The data Helps teachers assess student progress and needs Helps district identify building needs Dispels myths about performance discrepancies among sites

6. Counting to 100 Fall & Spring

7. Letter Sounds Fall & Spring

8. Segmenting All Sounds

9. Basic Words Fall & Spring

10. Some Sight Words

11. Next steps Share 03-04 data with K teachers K teachers meet to discuss consistent scoring of teacher- graded items Alignment of K screening tool with GLEs