Phonics Assessment Materials
See your grade level Assessment Expectations to determine which assessment is expected to be administered at a specific time of year.
The following assessments are found in the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment
System 1, Edition 3 Assessment Forms book. Below are the specific pages to reference for directions when administering and scoring each assessment. There are additional assessments in this resource that are not listed below, which you may wish to use at any time with select students to gather more information.
The following assessments are found in the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment
System 1, Edition 3 Assessment Forms book. Below are the specific pages to reference for directions when administering and scoring each assessment. There are additional assessments in this resource that are not listed below, which you may wish to use at any time with select students to gather more information.
Kindergarten Assessments
See pages 183-186 for specific information. The document below also provides directions for conducting this assessment with a specific text, Hiding, found in the Orange LLI kit (Level B, #39). You can also use any B or C level book from BAS System 1 or another guided reading book at this level.

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See pages 178-182 for specific information.
See pages 213-215 for specific information. A combined recording sheet for all Phonological Awareness tasks can be found on page 216.
See pages 208-210. A combined recording sheet for all Phonological Awareness tasks can be found on page 216.
Clarification for Assessing Initial Sounds:
- Give credit (one point) only when the child can MATCH the two pictures with the same initial sound and PRODUCE the initial sound. Give no credit for that item if either matching or producing the initial sound is missing.
See pages 187-190 for specific information.
See pages 191-194 for specific information.
Grade 1 Assessments
See page 263 and pages 268 - 269 for specific information.
See page 264 and pages 268 - 269 for specific information.
Phonics Assessment Expectations
Grades K and 1 (2017-2018)
For a printable format of these reference pages for Kindergarten and Grade 1 Required Phonics Assessment, see below:
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For summary sheet information, see below:
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