Free Kindergarten Report Card Printable Template (Standards)
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Regardless of your grade level, reporting student progress is not always easy. Kindergarten students’ academic progress goes from zero to 60 in a year. I think that is why I have always loved teaching those little 5—and 6-year-olds!
Here is a free printable kindergarten report card download file. These assessments and this report card are aligned with the Common Core and standards-based grading. In this blog post, I will share my experience with gathering student data without having to stop instruction. Assessments! Report cards! SIGH! Do you feel overwhelmed with them?
Kindergarten report card: Overwhelmed?
Is this a window into your life:
- Do you feel like you have finished assessing, and then it is time to start again?
- Do you feel like you can’t offer instruction because you are assessing?
- By the end of September, you have killed more trees than you care to admit, and you can’t find your desk because assessments are piled high?
- You have so MUCH data, but you can’t seem to turn data into a teaching plan.
- You pass these mountains of assessments off to your admin and never look back?
- When someone says you need to “Progress Monitor” a student, do you want to go screaming from the building?
If that is you above, I don’t blame you. I would not like assessments either.
Beyond the Progress Reports
Collecting data is really the middle step. We want first to know:
- What are you assessing?
- What do you do with the data?
When we make instructional decisions in our classroom, they should be centered around the evidence we collect. In a nutshell, what do the students know and what do they still need to learn… right?
What are the steps?
There are many different assessment types, but one thing they all have in common is data collection based on student performance.
- First, we collect data.
- Then, we analyze data.
- Next, we interpret data and establish a goal.
- Finally, we create and enact an action plan.
(The Literacy Teacher’s Playbook Grades K-2 by Jennifer Serravallo is a fantastic READ on data-driven instruction) So, how do we do this without stopping instruction?
Collecting Student Data without Stopping Instruction
In kindergarten, there are times when you need to sit side-by-side a student to assess them.
However, most assessments can be done during your daily lesson plans as various subject areas can be observed.
Daily Core Instruction
As classrooms move towards a structured literacy approach to instruction, there has been a much-needed discussion around core instruction. Kindergarten classes are focusing on early intervention, or, I should say, early prevention. For most students, reading difficulties can be avoided through systematic, explicit instruction. Daily lessons that include dictation practice not only help cement the letters (graphemes) to the sounds (phonemes), but dictation is the perfect opportunity to gather data.
As students go about the independent work of writing letters to represent sounds, you can assess their encoding and handwriting skills.
You can read more about our Science of Reading Lesson Plans by clicking.
You can gather data about students’ decoding skills as they read decodable texts. I like to gather data on a few students at a time. We can assess 2-3 students during our whole-group lesson plans. Then, we can gather more information on 3-4 students each day during our small group activities. These formative assessments allow me to have my finger on the pulse of student progress continuously. If I notice a student needs more time with a skill, I can be nimble and provide this additional instructional time.
Keeping track of each student is easy with these Decoding and Encoding Recording pages.
You can find these UFLI aligned decodable texts by clicking.
Rubrics for Responding to Literature
Students strengthen their comprehension skills during our close reading activities. These read aloud lessons are powerful.
Time and attention are given to building listening comprehension. Students can respond orally with their partner or in writing.
Rubrics should inform the teacher, but they can also inform the student, which can be powerful!
You can read more about how we use amazing texts to help build reading comprehension in our young students.
You can also find a directory of the books we use to teach comprehension by clicking:
Rubrics for Student Writing Time
We start each writing unit with an enlarged version of our writing rubric. Students participate by setting writing goals.
These goals are fluid and students revise their goals as the month (unit) goes by.
Each unit has a coordinating writing rubric. These are a great way to empower students to take ownership of their own learning.
Learn more about our writing units by clicking:
Additional Assessments
I sincerely LOVE kindergarten assessments and if you try ESGI, I bet you will too! Here is my suggestion… start the 60-day trial. THEN show your administration how powerful this tool is. I can’t tell you how many principals I have spoken to who said it was their TEACHERS who wanted this assessment so they purchased it for them.
One thing I absolutely love is the parent report. I often attached this report to the report card. It provides incredible details that go beyond what you could provide in the report card comments section.
These reports are also a great addition to your parent-teacher conference documentation.
You can snag your 60-day FREE trial below with a BIG discount if you do decide to sign up.
Here is a quick video that shows all of the amazing features of ESGI.
FREE KINDERGARTEN REPORT CARD PDF
You can grab a free copy of the kindergarten report card by adding your name to the box below. This report card is editable so you can make changes to match your own needs!
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Deedee Wills
My teaching career allowed me to experience teaching in different classroom environments and grades. My heart belongs to early childhood education. My job is to make teaching FUN, ENGAGING, and EASIER. Welcome!
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I love this and we are about to revise ours! So this would be a big help but…I was unable to download it or even print it??
Am I doing something wrong??
bharmor@hotmail.com
Thank you Barbara! It looks like the Google Docs is a little overwhelmed right now. Can you try again a little bit? If it still does not work, can you email me?
owens65066@gmail.com
It worked for me. I am very interested in how you report to parents. We have a very vague report card that doesn't give parents much info. Yours is very specific.
Thank you Laura! We hand out the first report card to the parents during our conference time. So we have the opportunity to explain it.
I also had trouble printing or downloading and it looks wonderful. So amazing of you to share your hard work!
Sorry… if you could try again. It looks like it has been downloaded a few hundred times, so perhaps that is the reason you are having trouble.
You can email me if you don't have luck tonight.
I also had trouble printing or downloading and it looks wonderful. So amazing of you to share your hard work!
Hi Deedee~
This is wonderful! I printed it out, and will be bringing it to my next PLC day to show how detailed your report card is in Kindergarten. I also love both assessment packs!
Thank you!
Robyn
I love your report card! I wish we could use it! We have to use our county's and it is Sooo general. Literally just a letter grade in reading, math, science, writing, and social studies. I also love how you show what is expected each 9weeks. Yours is also more developmentally appropriate than our county's expectations! If our little guys can't recognize all letters by the end of the first quarter they are below level! So not fair to these kids!
OMG!!! Thank you! This is my second year using your assessments packs, and I can't wait to give this information to the parents. Our report cards are a bit outdated, and do not reflect the Common Core Standards. With these sheet I will be able to effectively communicate to the parents what skills need to be worked on the most. You are awesome!
All of my SLO's needed to be completed 2 weeks into the school year. How is that for being developmentally appropriate in Kindergarten. Nothing like earning the trust of 4 and 5 year olds. None the less, we all got through it and we are well into the year. We use Fountas and Pinnell for our reading assessment in January and May. We adopted that last year. Before that we used the DRA.
I am sure that many, many teachers are grateful for your assessment models. I know that at my school we were always looking for the perfect way to communicate to parents. It's so important. Renee
I love this report card! It is so parent-friendly!
~Jen
Jen's Kinder Kids
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I love this! Our report card is common core, but it just lists the standards and it's 1 for emergent, 2 for approaching, 3 for mastered, and 4 for exceeds. The trouble is that until you have mastered all the parts of the standard the student is supposed to be a 2. I really feel that the report card gives no good information (except for the checklist on the back that says which letters and numbers the have "passed"). I have been wondering how to communicate the information I was getting from your assessment packs. I never did come up with anything I liked. This looks great!
Terri Izatt
KinderKapers
I had no idea the assessment virus was everywhere!!!! I am sick of collecting data. It leaves no time to teach! I am considering a data diet!!
LOL! It is an epidemic!
Looks great Deedee! We still haven't finished revising ours. The school is now converting to Common Core, so we will finish the report card then. I will be adding this to my folder of resources. Thanks!!!
Love the report card, thanks for the great freebie Deedee! I was wondering if sometime you could share how you organize assessment data in your classroom? Do you use student data notebooks/portfolios?
~Jessica
Fun in PreK-1
I just have them in hanging folders. That way I can slip info in and out.
I love this report card!! Would you by any chance have an editable version, so that I could make some changes for our school? Thank you in advance for your help.
Sorry, I do not have an editable version.
Do you not assess and report on each standard in the core?
Nope! That is not necessary. Formal assessments for every standard did not make sense to my district and it did not make sense to me. We selected those skills that were most important.
Hi
I cannot print out the free report card/rubrics at all…… any ideas…Ive followed everything correctly I think….
Sharon,
Sorry!!! JUST seeing this. Do you want to email me? deedee@mrswillskindergarten.com
My kids love the game much. Thanks for sharing.