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FIRST GRADE READINESS TEST
* This test is only available in selected areas where specialists administer
it. Please call Dawn Heil to discuss this at 847-854-0347. If you have a form
from a school or child facility, please complete it, attach payment, and return
it to your administrator.*
This First Grade Readiness Skills Test was designed to show strengths and to
identify some specific needs of children entering first grade. Although many
kindergarten children may have acquired most of these skills by age six, it is
not necessary to have mastered all of these to be ready for first grade. This
information should be added to the school records, teacher and parent
observations, and other tests given to provide a total picture.
Each student will complete tasks either orally or with pencil/paper in the areas
of reading, spelling, and math. They will need to understand the concept of
large/capital and small/lower case letters of the alphabet as well as be able to
sequence letters, say some sounds, read some words, and comprehend a simple
story in reading. In spelling, they will write letters as well as simple
words. Then in math, they will do simple written problems, write numbers,
sequence numbers, and understand some simple story problems.
The report will rate each skill as mastered, continued learning needed, or
direct instruction is recommended plus pages of grade appropriate skills both
academically and developmentally are included. The overall score will give an
age equivalent, percentage, stanine score, and functioning level from low to
high. If the child is too young to start first grade in the fall but may been
accelerated in kindergarten or may have potential to skip the kindergarten year,
this can be also applied to the norms of the child’s age as well as the age of
those going to first grade soon. This will give parents and teachers a picture
of the student’s academic level when compared to those students starting first
grade in the fall. Of course, there is more than the academic performance to
consider when a child enters first grade so the BEHAVIORAL RATING SCALE is
highly recommended to also do if overall behavioral skills are a concern.
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