First Grade Assessments: Beginning of the Year (late August-end of October)

What comes next? Assess your students’ understanding of patterns by having them identify and continue shape patterns.

How high can you count? Assess your students’ understanding of numbers to 100 using this quick number writing activity.

Kids practice narrative writing with this personal prompt.

Assess your students’ understanding of subtraction by having them solve subtraction problems within 20.

Add it up! Assess your students’ understanding of addition by having them solve addition problems within 20.

It's about time! Assess your students’ understanding of time to the hour by having them read analog clocks.

Assess your students’ abilities to write their first and last name on this first grade writing worksheet.

Assess your students’ ability to write uppercase letters using this quick alphabet writing exercise.

Assess your students’ ability to write lowercase letters using this quick alphabet writing exercise.

Assess student understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this worksheet.

Assess your students’ uppercase letter recognition using this quick alphabet assessment.

Assess your students’ lowercase letter recognition using this quick alphabet assessment.

Kids isolate beginning and ending sounds in this phonics worksheet.

Kids isolate short vowel sounds in this phonics worksheet.

Assess your students’ ability to segment beginning, middle, and ending sounds in this verbal phonemic awareness worksheet, perfect for helping beginning readers practice hearing and isolating distinct sounds.

Blending sounds together to make words is an essential skill for young learners. Give first graders the practice they need by reading sounds aloud to them, and asking them to identify the word they hear.

Recognizing syllables in words is an important step in developing spelling and reading skills. Give young students the practice they need by reading words aloud to them and asking them to identify the number of syllables.

Rhyme time! Identifying and forming rhymes is an essential skill for young readers...and a fun one to practice! Have your students come up with a word that rhymes with each of the given words on this phonemic awareness worksheet.

Picture comprehension is a great intro to reading comprehension! Kids will simply identify what is going on in each picture.