The I Am a Reader, I Am a Writer Assessment is designed to help you record kindergartners’ abilities
on a variety of specific literacy skills. It has four main purposes:
• to determine each child’s instructional needs.
• to diagnose children’s strengths and weaknesses.
• to provide a starting point from which you can measure a child’s
literacy growth.
• to provide ongoing support for instruction as children are learning to
read and write.
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Kindergarten Assessment Handbook © Scholastic Teaching Resources
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Reading
Look at this picture. What story can you tell me about it?
When the child has told a story, ask him or her to write it down and then to
read it aloud. If the child does not want to write the story, ask him or her to
tell it to you again so that you can write it.