Assessing The Munchkins- Assessment Measure Included!

I don't know about you, but my district requires that we monitor the progress of our special needs students about once every 15 and a half minutes.  There are lots of ways to do it, and I'm sure each teacher has their own strategy. I've tried lots of different measures in the past, but this year I've finally developed an assessment tool that is super fast to administer and measures students' progress in several different areas. I give this assessment at least three times a year, or more often, depending on the student or administrative "requests." :)

Now, I should probably say that this tool was designed to measure progress of first grade students with moderate disabilities, but I could see it working for Kindergarten through 2nd (or higher, depending on your students' disabilities and IEP goals).

This assessment includes letter names and letter sound recognition, as well as word reading, letter writing, counting, reading, and writing numbers, and addition and subtraction skills. Each assessment takes me around 5 minutes to administer. I give msot parts of the test individually during our "Universal Access" or small group time. The only exception is for letter writing and addition and subtraction, during which I put up study carrels (or "offices" as some people call them) and assess two to three students at a time. That helps it to go a little faster!

The picture is not the greatest, but hopefully you can get the gist of it, or you can just go here to get the printable assessment. I usually copy them back to back to save on paper, and to make them easier to keep track of.

What do YOU use to assess your students?