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Letter Identification Assessment

Purpose

The Letter Identification Assessment allows teachers to determine a student’s

knowledge of the alphabet. Students are asked to name uppercase and lowercase

letters in isolation, as well as sounds of lowercase letters.

Administration

Give the student a copy of the Letter Identification Student sheets.

Begin with the uppercase letter sheet and ask the student to name each letter

from left to right.

Record the student’s correct responses with a check mark in the Name column

next to the corresponding letter on the Letter Identification Teacher sheet.

You may choose to also record the student’s incorrect responses by

documenting them in the Notes column next to the corresponding letter.

Encourage the student to try every letter, allowing him/her to skip unknown

letters.

Do not offer the student any assistance except to ask him/her to move on to

the next letter as needed.

Repeat for lowercase letter names and lowercase letter sounds.

Analysis

Review the letters and sounds the student identified correctly. Compare the

student’s letter and sound recognition to those letters that have already been

formally introduced in classroom instruction. Note which letters require re-

teaching or review. It is also important to note which letters the student can

identify in his/her own name as a source of information to guide instruction.

Although the Letter Identification Assessment shows a student’s knowledge of

letters in isolation, this information can be helpful in determining which

consonant-vowel-consonant words the child might be ready to decode and

encode during guided instruction.

DJUSD 2012 - Kindergarten

Letter Identification Assessment