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I am all about Google forms!!!  I used to do my letter assessments with paper but once I discovered Google forms, I rethought all my paper assessments within the classroom and once I figured out how to insert images into Google forms (very easy by the way), I created a Google form for my letter assessments and I was blown away at the ease of the assessment process.  I sue a Samsung Tab A with an S-Pen in my classroom and my students thought it was really cool to see the letters on the tablet.  The benefit of using Google forms is that all the data I am collecting on my students goes straight into a Google sheet which allows me to show my data in various ways such as pie charts or bar graphs.  AND it allows me to save on paper!!! I have put these assessments into a package for my TPT store and Teachery shop.  Below give you a little look into the package. I cannot say enough about Google forms and how it has transformed my assessment within my classr

When I create something for me to use in the classroom, I usually end up revamping it after a year or so as there are always little things that either bothered me about it or just didn't work for me.  This past year was no different in that I am always trying to make my job a little more efficient with everyday teacher tasks/duties.  One thing I'm really trying to become more efficient with is my data collection and assessment binders with the notes/data I collect on my students and for it to be easy to use.  So I made a few new forms/recording sheets this year that I used in the classroom and have now made some minor adjustments to those and have added them to my MUST Have Teacher Forms in my TPT store. Here are a few things I have added: For my reading and writing workshop, I created simple blank calendars to write my student's names who I needed to see which allowed me to keep track on who I saw.  I also made some new covers with some new backgrounds which is always

Most elementary teachers (at least Primary or Kindergarten to Grade 2) group their students in tables.  I realized that I was moving table from table with my list of students and was always wasting a little more time trying to find the student on my math lesson assessment sheet.  So last year I decided to try something new and put my math lesson assessment sheets with groups of tables just like a seating chart.  I LOVED it!!!  It was so much easier to find the student I was observing because they were grouped in the table and I could find that table very easily on my sheet.  I tried to group the sheets in the units that were suggested for the yearly plan and I did end up binding them but I realized that as I received new students and my seating arrangement changed I just needed single sheets that I could attach to the lesson plan and then put that sheet in an assessment binder.  Here are a few screen shots of what the sheet could look like if you had 15 students with 3 students at eac

Every year I try to revamp my tracking system of my students and their letter identification and to try to make it more efficient for me.  I came up with this sheet and I have found it to be more efficient last year and easy to see my students improvement in their letter recognition.  My running records and other student assessments are in one big binder with each student having their own section (I use dividers).  I photocopy the lower and upper case identification recording sheet for each student and place it the binder.  I then laminate the Upper and Lower Case Identification Sheet and have the students read off that sheet while I record on mine.  You could give each student a cue card with a hole cut in the middle so they can focus on one letter at a time.  I also use a different coloured pen/maker for each month.  I have also included another tracking sheet where you can record both letter identification and letter sound recognition.  You can download the sheets below: Letter Id

I love my writing mini offices and so do my students.  Every year I tweak them so my students can get the most out of them.  Two years ago I added my themed word walls which I laminated and the students are able to change them out any time they want.  I love them!!!  This year I really wanted to add a changeable word wall on each folder but I wasn’t sure how to do this.  I have been experimenting with different things and I have finally come up with something I cannot wait to use in the classroom.  I have taken the dolch word lists (pre-primer, primer, grade one and grade two) and put each word in a little heart.  I printed those out, laminated and cut them and placed Velcro on the back of each little heart.  I glued 3 file folders together and made this my assessment/storage folder for the heart sight words.  When it is time to assess each students sight word recognition, I will use the file folder.   I will call each student up and have them bring their writing mini o