Early Childhood Assessment Information 

Pre-kindergarten Assessment

myIGDIS (my Individual Growth Development Indicators)

This assessment 

• provides data and information to execute early interventions for students.
• is administered three times a year.
• requires mandatory face-to-face training for new teachers and new myIGDIS school coordinators. 
  
• requires annual webinar refresher training for all teachers, coordinators, backup coordinators who have previously been trained.

myIGDIS RtI Resources:

• Phonological Awareness
• Alphabet Knowledge
• Concepts About Print
• More myIGDIS Resources

Kindergarten Assessment

KRA (Kindergarten Readiness Assessment)

This assessment

• measures a child's school readiness across multiple domains.
  
• is administered within the first 45 days of school.
• requires mandatory face-to-face training for all new kindergarten teachers and new myIGDIS school coordinators who administer/monitor the assessment.
• requires annual webinar refresher training for all teachers, coordinators, backup coordinators who have previously been trained.

Grades 1 and 2 Assessment

BAS (Benchmark Assessment System-Fountas and Pinnell)

This assessment

• requires observations of students' reading behaviors. 
• determines students' independent and instructional reading levels.
• connects assessments to instruction.
• is administered three times a year.
• requires mandatory training for new teachers and BAS school coordinators. 
• provides data to execute interventions and differentiation.

These assessments

• measure both early literacy and early numeracy in a single assessment.
• provide reliable and valid data about students’ phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency (including estimated oral reading fluency), and vocabulary.
• provide data about students' early number recognition, counting, and more.