Foundational Skills: Common Core Assessment Toolkit for 3rd Grade

Teaching foundational skills in third grade is essential for setting students on the path to academic success. But, knowing exactly which foundational skills each student in your classroom needs to learn, can be tricky (and overwhelming)! There IS a way to make it easy!

This assessment resource has been specifically created to help you make decisions based on real data that reflects what your students do, and do not know about the foundational skills standards in the third grade curriculum. That means you will be able to place students in reading groups that focus on skills each member of the group actually needs. That means you save VALUABLE teaching time.

This resource is also helpful for fourth grade students who need remediation.

How This Resource Can Help You in YOUR Classroom:

• You will have real data to support decisions such as special education, retention, acceleration, grading and more
• Perfect to use at parent-teacher conference time to show parents exactly where their student needs extra help
• Record sheets (documentation forms) are given for both the whole class (to know when reteaching to the whole group is warranted) and for individual students
• Two tests are given for each standard in the 3rd grade foundational skills strand
• Directions are given to show you how to keep track of the data, and how to do up to four attempts for students to pass the skill

Why is using a data driven approach so important?

• Real data provides an accurate and objective assessment of students' skills and knowledge.
• Using real data ensures that placement decisions are based on actual student performance rather than assumptions or subjective judgments.
• Real data helps identify specific areas of strength and weakness in students' understanding of the curriculum.
• By using real data, educators can provide targeted and individualized instruction that addresses students' specific needs.
• Real data allows for evidence-based decision-making, increasing the effectiveness of placement decisions.
• Using real data promotes equity and fairness by ensuring that students are placed in appropriate instructional settings based on their actual abilities.
• Real data helps maximize instructional time and resources by focusing on areas where students need the most support.
• Real data enables educators to monitor student progress accurately and adjust placement decisions as needed.
• By using real data, educators can effectively communicate with parents and stakeholdersabout students' performance and progress.
• Real data-driven placement decisions contribute to improved student outcomes and academic success.

Add this amazing resource to your teaching toolkit today!

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All buyers have access to the TPT Easel for this resource, which has been annotated for you. It's ready to go! Teachers will also be able to edit the directions to customize the resource if needed.

Please note, as is the case with foundational skills, most (not all) pages are meant to be read by students to teachers. These pages are included in the digital version to provide the opportunity for students to read to teachers over the internet. Teachers can then use the Pdf documentation sheets to evaluate student learning.

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The resource includes:

• Table of Contents
• Teacher Notes
• Guided Reading Template
• Individual Foundational Skills Documentation Form
• Classroom Foundational Skills Documentation Forms
• Foundational Skills Tests (two for each standard)

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How do you document what students do and do not know using distance learning? This resource answers that question. The Common Core documentation sheets come in versions for both whole class, and individual students. Teachers can keep track of what standards students do and do not know, and provide evidence to support how far a student has progressed. The documentation can then be used to pinpoint areas in which students need more instruction.

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PLEASE NOTE: This resource is taken from "3rd Grade Language Arts Common Core Documentation Kit". If you have purchased this resource, you already have all resources in this series including this foundational skills resource.

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If you are interested in other resources in this series check out:

Informational Text: Common Core Assessment Toolkit for 3rd Grade

Language: Common Core Assessment Toolkit for 3rd Grade

Writing: Common Core Assessment Toolkit for 3rd Grade

Literature: Common Core Assessment Toolkit for 3rd Grade

OR save over 25% on the BUNDLE that includes all resources in this series. This resource also includes checklists for the listening and speaking standards, as well as organizational materials.

Language Arts: Common Core Assessment Toolkit BUNDLE for 3rd Grade

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Guided Reading Foundational Skills Testing and Documentation Kit by Jan Bernard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.