Grading and Report Card Bundle for Kindergarten

Do Grading and Report Cards have you feeling stressed? Let's ditch the overwhelm and start feeling like writing report card comments and grading kindergarten students can be doable!

What's Included In This Bundle:

• Grading Rubrics and Guide for Kindergarten Common Core Standards
• Report Card Comment Templates and Guide

With These Resources, You'll Get:

• Clear expectations for grading students on Common Core Math and Literacy Standards
• Tools to make keeping track of student grades/progress easy!
• Step by step guidance on how to write an effective report card comment
• Comment templates you can use and customize to your needs!
• ...and more!

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Grading Rubrics and Guide for Kindergarten Common Core Standards

This Grading Tool breaks down the criteria for each possible grade that students can receive, so you don't have to!

What's Included:

• Teacher Note explaining how to use this resource
• Grading Rubric Overview for each Literacy and Math Common Core State Standard. The Rubric Overviews give clear criteria for receiving a grade of 1-4 (or Developing, Progressing, Meeting, and Exceeding).
• Mastery Checklists for all Literacy and Math standards to help you see all grades of all students in your class on one sheet.
• Student Grading Rubric with each score criteria for every strand.

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How to Use:

• Review the Grading Rubric Overview pages for a better understanding of what students are doing at each possible level of understanding.
• As you are assessing, use the Student Grading Rubrics to mark where students are in the progression toward meeting the standard.
• Use the rubrics to fill in report card grades and write comments.
• Tip - Use a different pen color each quarter to mark the student's grade on their rubric
• Use the Mastery Checklists to keep track of how the class is doing at mastering a standard as a whole.

Report Card Comment Templates and Guide

Using report card comment templates can be a huge timesaver! This resource will help you:

• write report card comments in less time
• give you the strategies to craft an effective comment with ease

What's Included:

• Quarterly Comment Templates - 2 versions for each quarter (meeting/exceeding version + needing extra support version)
• Editable Google Drive Templates - 2 options: Google Slides and Google Docs
• How to Write Report Card Comments Guide
• 3 Step Comment Formula
• Comment Terms Bank with ideas for positive behavior, needs improvement, and other helpful/general comment terms
• 22 Extra Comment Phrases to add to templates
• Blank pages to print and write out your own comment templates

Please view the preview for a closer look at what's included in this resource.

How to Use This Resource:

Quarterly Comment Templates

• Use these templates to plug and play with your own students
• Use what you like, and change what you don't.
• Simply fill in the blanks with appropriate information when you write your comments
• Refer to Meeting/Exceeding comment templates when writing comments for a student who is meeting or achieving above a grade-level standard in certain areas.
• Refer to the Needs Extra Support templates when writing comments for a student who needs extra support to achieve grade-level standard mastery.

Editable Google Drive Templates

• Choose from a google slides document or google document to type comment templates that you can save and refer to all year long

Comment Guide & Formula

• Use the guide to help clarify the 4 things that make a strong comment
• Follow the step by step formula so you never wonder how to get started again!

(The included comment templates were created based off of this formula)

Comment Terms Bank and Extra Comment Phrases

• Refer to the terms and phrases if you get stuck trying to formulate your own comments for a student

Blank Pages to Write Your Own Comments

• Print these pages to write your own templates for each quarter that you can always refer back to