PreK ELA 

Letter Naming and Sounds (Spring)

• Each pre-kindergarten student will be asked to identify all 26 letters (mixed uppercase and lowercase) one letter at a time. 

• This assessment will not be timed; however, if the student doesn't know after an appropriate amount of wait time, the assessor will move onto the next letter.

• If the student knows all/most of the letters, then the assessor will assess the student on the sounds of the letters.

Additional Literacy Skills (Spring)

• Students are also assessed in other literacy areas in the spring including: beginning sound awareness, rhyming awareness, print and word awareness, and nursery rhyme awareness. This information is included on the student's report card.

PreK Decision Rule:

The screening purpose at PreK is to catch those students who are not displaying these literacy skills even after given instruction. Therefore, 4K is too early to identify a student as "at-risk" for reading difficulties. Our assessments are used to learn what students currently know and what they are ready to learn next, and can also be used to identify strengths and needs in the 4K program curriculum, but it is not a screening tool.