The following document contains possible assessments to benchmark reading, writing and math. The document orivudes a list with links to resources that may be used to measure growth. These benchmark assessments can be sued to support your work with Personalized Goals (PGs) in your school. 

In this self-directed module, teachers will learn:
*Overview
*Strategies for administering the pre-test
*Strategies for analyzing data to inform instruction

(Approximately 45 minutes)

"The beginning of the school year is a great time to get an overview of students’ writing skills. This article will help you use our baseline essay-writing assessments to evaluate student writing and plan your instruction based on the results."

It can be challenging to navigate the many subtests that can be used in universal screening! Skilled reading involves the integration of many subskills. This chart can be used to identify the most pressing need for instruction. For older students – start at the top and work your way down to find the lowest barrier skill. For younger students learning to read (Kindergarten and grade 1), start at the bottom and work your way up to find the next skill to teach.

Early reading screening is an evidence-based way for educators and leaders to understand student and system risk. This document supports educators in understanding and making decisions about assessment and instruction.

Dr. David Kilpatrick's Phonological Awareness Screening Test (2016) explained by Linda Poletz, a Speech-Language Pathologist with the Sun West School Division.

The PAST and the instructions for administering the screener can be downloaded from this resource.
*The phonological development chart is in Appendix A.
*Suggested activities are in Appendix B.

*Math assessment materials
*Reading K-6 assessment materials

K-6
Select "Acadience Reading K-6 (Digital Administration" from the left menu; and "Benchmark Materials" from the right menu. - Then Select Your Grade's Materials .

7-9
Select "Acadience Reading 7-8 (Digital Administration" from the left menu; and "Benchmark Materials" from the right menu. - Then Select Your Grade's Materials .

This 20 minute tutorial shows teachers how to use Microsoft Reading Progress.

*available in over 100 languages

The Kindergarten Phonological Assessment Screener asseses:blending syllables into wordssegmeting words into syllablesisolating initial phonemesisolating final phonemesblending phonemessegmenting words into phonemes

Writing prompts and exemplars for Grades 1 to 8 from Ontario.

Student Writing Tasks and Samples

*Grade 1:A Short Piece of Descriptive Writing (“My Favourite Toy”) page 11
*Grade 2:A Short Narrative (“My Adventure”) page 25
*Grade 3:A Letter (to a Favourite Author) page 39
*Grade 4:A Humorous Fictional Story (“The Day Gravity Failed”) page 55
*Grade 5:A Non-fiction Report (“A Person I Admire”) page 73
*Grade 6:A Summary Report (“Canada’s Newest Territory”) page 91
*Grade 7:An Advertisement (for a New Food Product) page 111
*Grade 8:An Opinion Piece (a Letter to the Editor page 131

To match the ON rubrics with SK, you can connect these items: Reasoning in ON to Context in SK; Communication in ON to Message in SK; Organization in ON to Strategies in SK and Conventions in ON to Cues & Conventions in SK.