Classroom assessment

Helps you instantly assess your students! Simply place the easy-to-read magnet strips on the whiteboard for students to reference at a glance year round. Call out "Fist to Five Check" to the class during any lesson to have students raise their hands to quickly show their levels of understanding! Display vertically or horizontally on your board; completed chart measures 12.7"W x 20.6"H when displayed vertically Set of 7 Ages 6+/Grades 1+

Quick, casual ways to make sure everybody's on board.

Whether they're completed on a piece of paper, a tablet, or a whiteboard, exit tickets are a powerful tool to use in your classroom. Exit tickets are formative assessments that provide a quick snapshot about your students' learning and understanding of a topic faster than any other tool in the classroom.

Assessment is an important part of planning, but how do you assess all aspects of reading. Jennifer Serravallo has great recommendations in her book, and this post reviews her ideas.

I've been reading the book, Mindsets in the Classroom by Mary Cay Ricci, and just finished chapter 3. It was a real eye-opener. Through all of my years of teaching, I thought I was differentiating by planning and implementing reteaching and enrichment lessons and activities as my class worked through a unit. But in this chapter, I learned how important it is to start the differentiation before the unit even begins! This process begins with the preassessment. So much valuable information can…

Check out these 75 formative assessment ideas, and save this pin for whenever you need to come up with an idea for formative assessment!

Click on the picture for free download from TpT.I've been thinking a lot about formative assessments lately. Formative assessments are all about gathering information from your students - during inst

Get them excited to show you what they know!