1. Kindergarten Readiness Skills October Assessment
Name
Date Class
KRS
Kindergarten Readiness Skills October Assessment
Early Childhood I and II students will use the Kindergarten Readiness Skills packet to evaluate the preschoolers knowledge in October. These scores will be compared to the scores at the end of the year in May.
ECE students may not prompt or help the child in any way. If a child does not answer correctly, don’t say anything , do NOT correct him/her, say the correct answer, etc. – just move right on to the next thing.
Teacher: Please put the child’s name, your name, and the date in the box on the bottom of each page that you test.

2. Rhyming
Have your preschooler sound out the object on the left and draw a line to the object on the right that SOUNDS the same. Do NOT say the objects out loud for the child and do NOT prompt, point, or make corrections.
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears

3. Recognizing Lower Case Letters
Point to a letter and have the preschooler say what letter it is. If he/she is correct, circle the letter; if incorrect, don’t say anything and go on to the next one. Do NOT prompt, give hints, or go in alphabetical order.
c x m r d z
p k l y s e
w f b i v q
g n o t h u
j a
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears

4. Writing the Numbers One Through Five
Ask the preschooler to write the numbers one through five. If he/she writes a number backwards, that is fine – that is NOT a sign of dyslexia until a much older age! If he/she cannot write one or more of the numbers, that is fine. If he/she can write numbers to ten, that is fine – he/she may keep on going up to ten.
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears

5. Counting Out Loud to 20
Ask the preschooler to count out loud to 20 while you quickly record his/her answers in the space below. If he/she gets the numbers out of order, do not correct him/her – write it down exactly as he/she says it.
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears

6. Beginning Sounds Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr
Ask the preschooler to tell you what the picture/letter is, and then ask him/her to make the SOUND of that object. (It is OK to tell him/her what the object is if he/she is not sure what it is.) For example, the beginning sound of the word “rain “would be “ruh”. If he/she makes the correct beginning sound, circle that letter.
Aa Bb Cc
Dd Ee Ff
Gg Hh Ii
Jj Kk Ll
Mm Nn Oo
Pp Qq Rr
Ss Tt Uu
Vv Ww Xx
Yy Zz
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears

7. Patterns – What Comes Next?
Ask your child “what comes next?” in each of the following sequences? Write or draw exactly what he/she says in the blank at the end.
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears

8. Drawing Shapes
Ask the preschooler to draw a circle, square, rectangle, and triangle, one at a time, in the space below.
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears

9. Grouping
Give each child a red, yellow, and blue crayons or markers. Ask the preschooler to circle all the items that are the same color as the crayon/marker.
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears

10. Sight Words stop go yes no not I you me we they my
Sight Words
Ask the preschooler if he/she can recognize (read) any of these words, and if so, circle the word(s). These are OPTIONAL for beginning kindergarten.
stop go yes no not
I you me we they my
am are did is be was
all he she it us our
a at the an and to
in out up down on off
Child’s name
Your name
Date Lions Tigers Bears