First Grade Assessments: Spring (early January to mid-March)

Your first graders have been hard at work on their reading skills this year! Use this quick one-on-one reading inventory to gauge and assess your students' abilities to read grade-level sight words.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long A sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long E sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long I sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long O sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long U sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

It's time to check in on those reading skills! Assess your students’ knowledge of blends and digraphs with this reading assessment.

Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Your first graders have been hard at work learning how to write engaging narratives, so now it's time to put their knowledge into action! Use this writing prompt activity to assess your students’ abilities to use key details when writing narrative t

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write an opinion piece. Students are tasked with writing a review of a book or movie of their choice, making sure to include a summary, their opinion, and supporting reasons.

Your first graders should be well on their way to understanding that you can't write sentences without proper capitalization! Use this writing assessment to measure your students’ abilities to correctly capitalize sentences.

Do your first graders have a solid grasp of how to write sentences with proper end punctuation, or could they use a bit more practice? Use this assessment to gauge your students’ abilities to use correct end punctuation.

It's time to check in on those addition skills! Use this math activity to assess your students’ understanding of addition by having them solve addition problems within 20.

Let's check in on those subtraction skills! Use this math worksheet to assess your students’ understanding of subtraction by having them solve subtraction problems within 20.

Let's see those addition skills! Use this math assessment to check in on your students’ abilities to add three numbers by having them solve these problems.

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

Triangles, trapezoids, rhombi...oh my! Identifying different shapes is an important milestone for young learners. Use this colorful activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to recognize and differentiate between 2-D shapes.

Prisms, cubes, cones...oh my! Your students have 2-D shapes down, but how are they coming along in their mastery of 3-D shapes? Use this colorful activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to recognize and differentiate between 3-D shapes.

Have your students put their knowledge of shapes and division to the test with this quick math assessment. This activity will assess your first graders’ abilities to divide various 2-D shapes into equal shares.

Reading analog clocks can be tricky for young kids. Hopefully they've had a bit of practice by now and are ready to show off their newly acquired skills! Use this time-telling activity to assess your students’ abilities to tell time to the hour.