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How to Determine a Students' Math Level

Many students will pass on through school sequentially. They will be assessed along the way, but often they have difficulty in certain areas that often are not addressed. When a problem area appears, students will often shy away from that topic as they matriculate through the system. This often presents students with a problem area that is never truly addressed and cause problems later on down the road. One method we have encouraged our teachers to get in the habit of is assessing students the minute they enter your classroom. An easy way to do this is to give students a complete assessment of their previous grade level. For instance, we would use our fourth grade three form of test with students that are entering the fifth grade. Students may be a bit rusty since they just had summer vacation, but an average student should achieve a seventy-percent score on all three forms of the assessment. This will help you quickly identify where your class as a whole is. You will know right away which students will struggle with the fifth-grade curriculum. You will also be able to recognize your higher achievers. There are some occasions where you may find that your class has weaker math skills. This can happen for many reasons including previous teacher absences, lack of a structured curriculum, or gaps in a full curriculum. In these circumstances we would highly recommend that you spend a few weeks reviewing material that to be mastered in the previous grade level. While some teachers feel that this just wastes time, it does greatly benefit students and will make the new work much more doable. If you proceed without addressing this, you and your students will be in for a tough year. We have several teachers that are regulars here that spend the first two weeks of their school year assessing and addressing. We have a few high school teachers that will not proceed with their curriculum until they are certain their students are ready for it. While it may seem like unnecessary or tedious work, these teachers swear by this method and usually produce the better math students in their respective school buildings.

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Curriculum-Based Measurement: A Manual for Teachers . This manual is the most popular download on Intervention Central! It provides a complete introduction to CBM and its use in schools.

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This page is your 'one-stop' destination for free Curriculum-Based Measurement resources on the Internet. Browse the page to find CBM materials to conduct school-wide screenings and monitor student progress. Or review one of the featured manuals to learn how to use CBMs in schools and to interpret the results to make good RTI decisions.

Early Reading Measures
Reading Fluency & Comprehension Measures
Early Mathematics Measures
Math Computation & Math Concepts and Applications Measures
Written Expression Measures
Graphing Options
CBM Norms
CBM Manuals
CBM Forms
CBM Pay Sites

Access measures to track foundation reading skills

Letter Name and Dolch Word List Probes: Schools can create their own customized CBM materials in these early reading skill areas:

DIBELS Early Reading Probes: The DIBELS [Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills] website has materials for administering and scoring a range of early reading skills. DIBELS also includes performance benchmarks. Materials are free but users do have to register with the site to obtain them. DIBELS early reading measures include:

Initial Sound Fluency

Phoneme Segmentation

Letter Naming Fluency

Nonsense Word Fluency

EasyCBM Early Reading Probes: The easycbm.com website has several types of early reading probes. Teachers can access materials for free but must register with the site to do so. Available measures include:

Phoneme Segmentation

Letter Naming Fluency

Letter Sound Fluency

Word Identification Fluency

Assess reading fluency and comprehension

Custom ORF and Maze Passage Probes: Schools can create their own customized CBM materials for reading fluency &comprehension:

Oral Reading Fuency Probes: Oral Reading Fluency probes assess students' proficiency in reading connected text. Users can type or paste text into the Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Probe Generator to create materials in pdf format to monitor student accuracy and fluency as they read aloud.

Maze Passage Fluency Probes: Maze (multiple-choice Cloze) passages are used to track student growth in basic reading comprehension. The Maze Passage Generator allows the user to type or paste in text and then quickly create a Maze passage in pdf format.

DIBELS Reading Fluency Materials: The DIBELS website has leveled passages to assess Oral Reading Fluency. Materials are free but users do have to register with the site to obtain them.

Access measures to track foundation math skills

NumberFly Early Math Probes. Schools can use the NumberFly application to generate Early Math Fluency assessments to track 'number sense' in young children (grades K & 1). The application has three customizable forms to create Early Math Fluency probes.

Quantity Discrimination

Missing Number

Number Identification

Find assessments to track proficiency in computation skills and higher-level math skills

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Mixed Computation Skills

SuperKids Advanced Computation Worksheets: The SuperKids.com website has an application that can generate more advanced math computation worksheets, including:

Math Concepts & Applications Probes: The EasyCBM website has a series of math probes that are based on Math Focal Points from the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics. Teachers can access materials for free but must register with the site to do so.

Create probes to track student development of writing skills

Use these resources to create visual displays of CBM data

Paper Graphing Forms: Educators can download a series of per-formatted paper CBM graph forms from Intervention Central:

Norms can provide schools with criteria for judging student success on CBM tasks

These guides provide guidelines for administering, scoring, and interpreting CBM measures

CBM Modules from the National Center on RTI and Center on Student Progress Monitoring: A collection of manuals and presentation materials for using CBM can be found on the websites of the National Center on RTI and the National Center on Student Progress-Monitoring . The manuals include the following titles:

CBM Manuals from AIMSweb The commercial AIMSweb CBM site has a series of very thorough and well-formatted CBM manuals on a full range of measures. For each link below, click on the 'Scoring Guide' tag to access the free manuals:

Curriculum-Based Measurement: A Manual for Teachers This manual from Intervention Central provides an introduction to CBM and its use in schools.

Short Sets of CBM Directions: Intervention Central presents these streamlined sets of directions for CBM:

These forms can help schools to organize CBM data

CBM Data Collection Forms: These forms from Intervention Central can help schools to collect and organized CBM data.

These websites have CBM materials available for purchase

This pay site (http://www.aimsweb.com) includes CBM assessments in reading, math, spelling, and writing. The early reading measures assess phonemic awareness and alphabetic. The site also has measures in oral reading fluency and Maze passages. In math, the AIMSweb site offers early math fluency, math computation, and concepts and applications probes. In addition, the site contains writing and spelling assessments. AIMSweb also provides options to schools to order printed sets of assessment materials, computer and software tools for efficient data capture, and web-based management of CBM data.

The EasyCBM site (www.easycbm.com) contains an array of reading and math CBM assessments and is free to individual teachers. Schools and districts can purchase services from the site, with the cost calculated yearly based on student enrollment. The reading section of the site contains assessment distributed across the appropriate grade levels for Phoneme Segmenting, Letter Names, Letter Sounds, Word Reading Fluency, Passage Reading Fluency, Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension. The site also has math assessments for grades K-8 based on the Focal Point Standards in Mathematics from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. These assessments are described on by the developers as testing 'conceptual understanding' rather than basic computational fluency. Teachers can enter and store student assessment data on the site, generate progress monitoring charts, and aggregate the results of numbers of students to create charts depicting group or class performance.

This site (http://www.edcheckup.com) provides commercial measures of reading, writing, and math, as well as student data management options. To track literacy skills, EdCheckup has two beginning reading assessment: letter sounds and isolated words. The site also measures more advanced reading skills through oral reading fluency and Maze passage probes. There are four options offered in writing assessment: sentence copying, sentence dictation, paragraph dictation, and written expression. Math probes assess computation, using a 'cloze math' format. EdCheckup also offers schools and districts the option of entering their student CBM data online and generating screening and progress-monitoring reports and graphs.

The STEEP (System to Enhance Educational Performance-- http://www.isteep.com) website offers commercial CBM products. Its products include both reading and math CBM measures. The site has CBM early literacy, oral reading fluency and Maze passages that span grades 1-12. In math, STEEP includes early math skills, math computation assessments, measures based on the Focal Point Standards in Mathematics from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and Concepts and Applications measures for secondary grades. Schools and districts can purchases assessments separately or can pay a fee based on student enrollment for more comprehensive services, including web-based data management.

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Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression
Informal Progress Monitoring for Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression
Norms for Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression
Teacher Checklist for Listening Comprehension
Teacher Checklist for Oral Expression
Unpacked Standards - Listening, Viewing, and Speaking: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Written Expression
6 + 1 Writing Rubric ( K-2) ( 3-12)
Qualitative Features of Writing Checklist
Skill-Based Writing Inventory ( K-6) ( 7-12)
WE-CBM Error Tracking Checklist
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The Placement Tests help determine the best level for a student to begin within the Math-U-See curriculum.

While the student is taking the Placement Test, the teacher should document observations regarding whether the student is using finger counting, touch points, or tally marks; other patterns should be noted such as missing steps, careless errors, or incorrect methods. These observations should be recorded on the Class Placement Data Sheet* or in a similar fashion.

Intervention

If the student can recognize, read, and write the numbers 0-10, begin with the Alpha Placement Test. If, while taking that test, the student demonstrates mastery of Alpha content and the prerequisite skills for Beta, then the student can progress through the tests until the appropriate entry level is found. Please refer to the Math-U-See Professional Development Module (provided as part of the In-Service Training) on Placement for the prerequisite skills for each level ( contact us to learn more about the In-Service Training we can provide).

Note: The Primer level of Math-U-See is generally not recommended for students in an intervention program. Please contact us to discuss your specific situation so we can help you to determine if Primer would be appropriate in your educational setting.

General Education

If the student is in grades K-3 and can recognize, read, and write the numbers 0-10, begin with the Alpha Placement Test. Kindergarten-aged students who do not meet these requirements can be placed in Primer. If the student is older, begin with the PreTest. If the student misses more than one problem at any level on the PreTest, administer the Placement Test for that level.

*For those with Professional Access, the Class Placement Data Sheet can be downloaded as a Word document. Contact us to learn more about the documentation and support provided with Math-U-See Professional Access.

If you have any questions about administering the Placement Tests, please contact us.

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Math skills assessment in K-12: Measure your progress in math today. Parents, use these tests to check how well your kid is progressing through the math curriculum.

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This page is your 'one-stop' destination for free Curriculum-Based Measurement resources on the Internet. Browse the page to find CBM materials to conduct school-wide screenings and monitor student progress. Or review one of the featured manuals to learn how to use CBMs in schools and to interpret the results to make good RTI decisions.

Early Reading Measures
Reading Fluency & Comprehension Measures
Early Mathematics Measures
Math Computation & Math Concepts and Applications Measures
Written Expression Measures
Graphing Options
CBM Norms
CBM Manuals
CBM Forms
CBM Pay Sites

Access measures to track foundation reading skills

Letter Name and Dolch Word List Probes: Schools can create their own customized CBM materials in these early reading skill areas:

DIBELS Early Reading Probes: The DIBELS [Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills] website has materials for administering and scoring a range of early reading skills. DIBELS also includes performance benchmarks. Materials are free but users do have to register with the site to obtain them. DIBELS early reading measures include:

Initial Sound Fluency

Phoneme Segmentation

Letter Naming Fluency

Nonsense Word Fluency

EasyCBM Early Reading Probes: The easycbm.com website has several types of early reading probes. Teachers can access materials for free but must register with the site to do so. Available measures include:

Phoneme Segmentation

Letter Naming Fluency

Letter Sound Fluency

Word Identification Fluency

Assess reading fluency and comprehension

Custom ORF and Maze Passage Probes: Schools can create their own customized CBM materials for reading fluency &comprehension:

Oral Reading Fuency Probes: Oral Reading Fluency probes assess students' proficiency in reading connected text. Users can type or paste text into the Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Probe Generator to create materials in pdf format to monitor student accuracy and fluency as they read aloud.

Maze Passage Fluency Probes: Maze (multiple-choice Cloze) passages are used to track student growth in basic reading comprehension. The Maze Passage Generator allows the user to type or paste in text and then quickly create a Maze passage in pdf format.

DIBELS Reading Fluency Materials: The DIBELS website has leveled passages to assess Oral Reading Fluency. Materials are free but users do have to register with the site to obtain them.

Access measures to track foundation math skills

NumberFly Early Math Probes. Schools can use the NumberFly application to generate Early Math Fluency assessments to track 'number sense' in young children (grades K & 1). The application has three customizable forms to create Early Math Fluency probes.

Quantity Discrimination

Missing Number

Number Identification

Find assessments to track proficiency in computation skills and higher-level math skills

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Mixed Computation Skills

SuperKids Advanced Computation Worksheets: The SuperKids.com website has an application that can generate more advanced math computation worksheets, including:

Math Concepts & Applications Probes: The EasyCBM website has a series of math probes that are based on Math Focal Points from the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics. Teachers can access materials for free but must register with the site to do so.

Create probes to track student development of writing skills

Use these resources to create visual displays of CBM data

Paper Graphing Forms: Educators can download a series of per-formatted paper CBM graph forms from Intervention Central:

Norms can provide schools with criteria for judging student success on CBM tasks

These guides provide guidelines for administering, scoring, and interpreting CBM measures

CBM Modules from the National Center on RTI and Center on Student Progress Monitoring: A collection of manuals and presentation materials for using CBM can be found on the websites of the National Center on RTI and the National Center on Student Progress-Monitoring . The manuals include the following titles:

CBM Manuals from AIMSweb The commercial AIMSweb CBM site has a series of very thorough and well-formatted CBM manuals on a full range of measures. For each link below, click on the 'Scoring Guide' tag to access the free manuals:

Curriculum-Based Measurement: A Manual for Teachers This manual from Intervention Central provides an introduction to CBM and its use in schools.

Short Sets of CBM Directions: Intervention Central presents these streamlined sets of directions for CBM:

These forms can help schools to organize CBM data

CBM Data Collection Forms: These forms from Intervention Central can help schools to collect and organized CBM data.

These websites have CBM materials available for purchase

This pay site (http://www.aimsweb.com) includes CBM assessments in reading, math, spelling, and writing. The early reading measures assess phonemic awareness and alphabetic. The site also has measures in oral reading fluency and Maze passages. In math, the AIMSweb site offers early math fluency, math computation, and concepts and applications probes. In addition, the site contains writing and spelling assessments. AIMSweb also provides options to schools to order printed sets of assessment materials, computer and software tools for efficient data capture, and web-based management of CBM data.

The EasyCBM site (www.easycbm.com) contains an array of reading and math CBM assessments and is free to individual teachers. Schools and districts can purchase services from the site, with the cost calculated yearly based on student enrollment. The reading section of the site contains assessment distributed across the appropriate grade levels for Phoneme Segmenting, Letter Names, Letter Sounds, Word Reading Fluency, Passage Reading Fluency, Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension. The site also has math assessments for grades K-8 based on the Focal Point Standards in Mathematics from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. These assessments are described on by the developers as testing 'conceptual understanding' rather than basic computational fluency. Teachers can enter and store student assessment data on the site, generate progress monitoring charts, and aggregate the results of numbers of students to create charts depicting group or class performance.

This site (http://www.edcheckup.com) provides commercial measures of reading, writing, and math, as well as student data management options. To track literacy skills, EdCheckup has two beginning reading assessment: letter sounds and isolated words. The site also measures more advanced reading skills through oral reading fluency and Maze passage probes. There are four options offered in writing assessment: sentence copying, sentence dictation, paragraph dictation, and written expression. Math probes assess computation, using a 'cloze math' format. EdCheckup also offers schools and districts the option of entering their student CBM data online and generating screening and progress-monitoring reports and graphs.

The STEEP (System to Enhance Educational Performance-- http://www.isteep.com) website offers commercial CBM products. Its products include both reading and math CBM measures. The site has CBM early literacy, oral reading fluency and Maze passages that span grades 1-12. In math, STEEP includes early math skills, math computation assessments, measures based on the Focal Point Standards in Mathematics from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and Concepts and Applications measures for secondary grades. Schools and districts can purchases assessments separately or can pay a fee based on student enrollment for more comprehensive services, including web-based data management.

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These free diagnostic tests help you discover your child or student's level in math, and to find out EXACTLY where they have gaps (if any). They are end-of-year (EOY) tests - in other words, meant to be taken AFTER studying the particular grade.

While the tests ARE placement tests for Math Mammoth complete curriculum, they work equally well as GENERIC math assessment tests.

Using the tests will allow you to tailor the instruction to help the child/student right where they need help the most. You can EASILY find out if your student has not learned specific topics, because the tests group the questions by topic. Just look at the test results per "sections" of similar problems (addition, multiplication, measuring, geometry, place value, problem solving).

You can always send me your child's test results if in doubt. (Just send me the point counts for each test item.)

To start, look over the tests and try to find the highest level one that you THINK your student or child will pass. Then you would naturally administer that test.

The video below explains the basics of HOW to use these tests:

This table shows the possible score ranges and how to interpret the result:

90% or more

Administer the next higher level test.

80% to 89%

The student can go on to the next grade level in Math Mammoth.

70% to 79%

The student can probably go on to the next grade level in Math Mammoth, but may need help in filling in gaps. Use your judgment.

50% to 69%

The student can possibly be placed to the grade level of the test. Or, you might administer the next lower level test in order to get a fuller picture of what the student knows and doesn't know.

less than 50%

Administer the next lower level test.

However, it's quite possible that just that one test will not give you a good overview of what the student has mastered. So don't be afraid of administering two or even three tests - or parts of tests. For example, let's say a student gets 70% on a test, and in particular, they get a low score in the geometry section of the test. In that case, it is beneficial to administer the GEOMETRY sections of the next lower level tests also, in order to find out how "large" a gap they have in geometry.

Sometimes, a student who is seriously behind can get a low score on even THREE subsequent tests. Basically, their skills and knowledge are "all over the place" so to speak. Such students can benefit from a tailored approach where the materials they will study will be exactly matched to the gaps they have.

One more important thing. To reduce the test-taking stress, don't put any strict time limit for the completion of the test. We don't want students to build any anxiety over this placement test or tests. Now, some children have already developed anxiety towards test-taking and/or towards math in general. In such cases, it might be best to avoid even these tests, or at least postpone the test-taking until the anxiety has subsided somewhat.

Downloads

Canadian versions

These are all-metric and formatted to Letter size paper. For grades 1-2, the tests use Canadian coins and bills.

International versions (all metric)

The international versions are formatted to A4 paper size, use a space for thousands separator (35 230), and only use metric units. The tests for grades 1 and 2 include a section on counting coins, which is with Australian currency. The rest of the tests don't have questions about coins or bills, and use the "$" symbol for currency.

International-UK versions with pounds & pence (all metric)

The versions below are formatted to A4 paper size and only use metric units. They use British coins and bills.

International-euro versions with euro coins and bills & decimal comma

The versions below are formatted to A4 paper size, use a space for thousands separator (35 230), and only use metric units. They use euro coins and bills, and a decimal comma for money amounts.

Tip: If you notice your child has problems with one or two concept areas in a particular test, but otherwise does fine, you can use Math Mammoth Blue Series books to "fill in those gaps". You can also email me with your test results if you have trouble deciding which Blue Series book you should use for such remedial work.

Math Mammoth grade-level review workbooks can also be used to pinpoint areas of weakness or to review a whole grade level of topics.

An example

Here is an example of one student's test results and the placement advice I gave to the parent of this student.

Background: the student began homeschooling the same year as the tests were taken and is technically in 7th grade. She had started doing Teaching Textbooks Algebra 1. However, the parent noticed that she didn't know some basic fraction information, decided to look for a supplement, and came across Math Mammoth.

The student took three end-of-year tests: for grade 6, grade 5, and grade 4. She did not do very well in the grade 6 test, but you can see her work for grade 4 and grade 5 tests in the links below. If you decide to send me your child's test results, it is not necessary to send me the complete test like this person did, but it makes a good example. Most people send me only the point counts for the various test items.

And here is my assessment and recommendations:

Hello,

I think it's a good idea to have her start at grade 5 in Math Mammoth.

Additionally, I feel she should study these books from the Blue series.

1. Early Geometry, because she doesn't seem to understand the concepts of area and perimeter - which are of paramount importance. This book is for grades 1-3 so some topics in it are too easy and she can skip them.

2. Geometry 1 - meant for grades 4-5. She will need to study the lessons that are in 4th grade level first (angles, quadrilaterals, triangles, etc.) Please note some of the content here overlaps with MM grade 5. She can study the overlapping lessons from either source.

3. Measuring 1 - it is for grades 1-3 but she may need to review everything from the beginning when it comes to measuring units. Some lessons may be too easy and can be omitted - use your judgment on that.

4. Measuring 2 - for grades 4-6. Please note some of the content here overlaps with MM grades 5 and 6. She can study the overlapping lessons from either source.

5. Decimals 1
She has not grasped the basics of how fractions and decimals tie together - which, once again, is a very fundamental concept. She should study Decimals 1 book before starting the decimals chapter in grade 5.

Other than those few areas (geometry, measuring, decimals), she can be placed into MM 5.

By the way, don't assign all the problems that have to do with calculations (large exercise sets) in any of the materials. It's enough to assign maybe 1/3 of those at first. If she has difficulties, then use the rest (and that may be the case when it comes to, say, perimeter and area).

And, she did really well with the first two sections of grade 5 end-of-year-test, which means she could perhaps skip the first two chapters in MM5. You could let her study the chapter reviews and/or tests from those 2 chapters. Check and see how she does with them, and then use your judgment if she'd need to study any of the lessons from those chapters.

Thankfully, she also understands many things of fraction arithmetic, which will make things go quicker in part 5-B.

I'm really glad her 'gaps' are not in general problem solving! It's far easier to deal with topics such as measuring units, area, and perimeter, than to fix a general lack of not being able to solve word problems (which is the case with many children).

Sincerely,
Maria Miller

Questions about placement

1. My K student wants more challenge and to do 1st grade math. How can I know if the Light Blue grade 1 is the right choice for my child?

The Light Blue grade 1 starts out with the same material as these books from the Blue Series:Addition 1 and Subtraction 1. Look over those, see their samples and contents, and that will probably tell you if your children are ready for grade 1.

2. I thought my child had been doing fine in math previously (getting A's and B's), but he/she still failed the placement test for their particular grade level.

This is common for a child coming from public school or from another math curriculum. It is typically due to the facts that (i) Math Mammoth uses multi-step word problems extensively from 2nd grade onward; and (ii) the child may not have covered all the topics in the other curriculum as what are covered in MM. Geometry & measuring often end up being such areas.

To catch up, please see the Tip above about using the Blue Series books. Another thing you can do is accelerate through the earlier levels of Math Mammoth, for example by studying the chapter reviews, and stopping to study any concept that the child has not understood.

This kind of process can typically be done in only a few months, so don't worry! It is much more important to get a solid foundation in math than to look at the grade levels and just go on. In math, it is crucial to understand the previous concepts, because if not, the student WILL eventually fail and most also start hating math.

See also this thread on a homeschool discussion forum:Unexpected experience with end-of-year test for Math Mammoth.

3. A student misses (or doesn't even try) most of the word problems in the test but does okay with calculation problems.

This is a common situation for many students. It usually stems from the lack of good word problems in the math program the student has used previously. Please read what I have written aboutthe problem with word problems so you can understand the origins of this difficulty better.

Our bookMath Mammoth Foundational Word Problems is designed to help such students who are in 3rd grade or above.

Additionally or alternatively, your student could go through certain books in the Blue Series, doing only the word problems and the lessons pertaining to word problems. Use this as a guideline:
Student attempted the 2nd grade EOY test:
Add & Subtract 2-A, Add & Subtract 2-B, and half of Add & Subtract 3.

Student attempted the 3rd grade EOY test:
(possibly Add & Subtract 2-A) Add & Subtract 2-B, Add & Subtract 3, Multiplication 1, and Division 1.

Student attempted the 4th grade EOY test:
Add & Subtract 3, Multiplication 1, Division 1, Multiplication 2, and Division 2.

4. My child did OK on the test except such-and-such area or topic. Can you help me choose remedial materials?

Please see the following chart.

5. I'm a Math-U-See user and my child has not studied some of the materials you cover earlier than MUS. How do I switch over to Math Mammoth?

I'd simply recommend you first have her take a placement test to know exactly what she knows and what she doesn't about those topics that MUS does not cover as much, such as measuring, money, clock, geometry and problem solving.

Then once you have had the child take the test, you can choose booksfrom the Blue Series to address specific topic areas (see the chart above).

Remember also, I'm ready to guide you with these decisions. Justlet me know the child's test results by sections.

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Math Mammoth placement tests for grades 1-8 (free math assessment)

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English-Language Arts and Reading Assessments

Following are accurate and teachable diagnostic grammar, usage, mechanics, spelling, and reading assessments and corresponding recording matrices to help teachers determine what students know and what they do not know. All but one assessment (fluency) are whole class assessments. Each assessment is comprehensive, not a random sample, to enable teachers to teach to the results of each test item. The author's ELA/reading programs provide the resources for assessment-based whole class and individualized instruction. Click on the blue hyperlinks for the assessment resources.

Use this 40 item assessment to determine student's knowledge of parts of speech, subjects and predicates, types of sentences, fragments and run-ons, pronoun usage, modifiers, verb tenses and verb forms. The author's one-volume provides corresponding whole class lessons with grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling instruction including sentence diagrams, mentor texts and formative assessments plus corresponding worksheets targeted to each item on the Grammar Assessment. Additionally, the author provides grade-leveled grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Common Core aligned instruction in the programs. Each comprehensive program includes full year programs in grammar, usage, mechanics, spelling, and vocabulary with all the resources teachers need for effective direct and individualized instruction. Student workbooks and complete diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments are part of these programs.

Use this 32 item assessment to test students' ability to apply correct usage of commas, capitalization, and all other essential punctuation. The author's one-volume Teaching Grammar and Mechanics provides corresponding whole class lessons with grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling instruction including sentence diagrams, mentor texts and formative assessments plus corresponding worksheets targeted to each item on the Mechanics Assessment. Additionally, the author provides grade-leveled grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Common Core aligned instruction in the programs. Each comprehensive program includes full year programs in grammar, usage, mechanics, spelling, and vocabulary with all the resources teachers need for effective direct and individualized instruction. Student workbooks and complete diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments are part of these programs.

Diagnostic Spelling Assessment (Paper Copy) *

Use this comprehensive diagnostic assessment to pinpoint all sound-spelling patterns learned from kindergarten through eighth grade. This 102 item eighth grade test pinpoints spelling deficits and allow the teacher to individualize instruction according to the assessment-data. The author's Grades 4-8 programs and the comprehensive Grades 4-8 programs provide the appropriate test items according to grade level and targeted worksheets to remediate each unknown assessment sound-spelling. Each worksheet includes a spelling sort and formative assessment.

Use these five phonemic awareness (syllable awareness, syllable rhyming, phonemic isolation, phonemic blending, phonemic segmenting) and two awareness assessments (upper and lower case identification and application) to determine reading readiness. Each of the seven assessments is administered whole class. The author's reading intervention program includes corresponding phonemic awareness and alphabetic awareness activities to remediate all deficits indicated by the assessments.

Use this comprehensive 52 item whole class assessment to determine your students' mastery of short vowels, long vowels, silent final e, vowel digraphs, vowel diphthongs, and r-controlled vowels. The assessment uses nonsense words to test students' knowledge of the sound-spellings to isolate the variable of sight word recognition. Unlike other phonics assessments, this assessment is not a random sample of phonics knowledge. The Vowel Sounds Phonics Assessment includes every common sound-spelling. Thus, the results of the assessment permit targeted instruction in any vowel sound phonics deficits. The author's reading intervention program includes corresponding worksheets and small group activities to remediate all deficits indicated by this assessment.

Use this comprehensive 50 item whole class assessment to determine your students' mastery of consonant digraphs, beginning consonant blends, and ending consonant blends. The assessment uses nonsense words to test students' knowledge of the sound-spellings to isolate the variable of sight word recognition. Unlike other phonics assessments, this assessment is not a random sample of phonics knowledge. The Consonant Sounds Phonics Assessment includes every common sound-spelling. Thus, the results of the assessment permit targeted instruction in any consonant sound phonics deficits. The author's reading intervention program includes corresponding worksheets and small group activities to remediate all deficits indicated by this assessment.

Use this 99 item whole class assessment to determine your students' mastery of the most common non-phonetic English words. The author's reading intervention program includes small group activities to remediate all deficits indicated by this 15-minute assessment. The program includes an Outlaw Words fluency article which uses all assessment sight words. The program also provides sight word game card masters and individual sets of business card size game cards in the accompanying Reading and Spelling Game Cards.

Use this comprehensive 79 item whole class assessment to determine your students' mastery of the most common English rimes. Memorization and practice of these word families such as ack, eck, ick, ock, and uck can supplement an explicit and systematic phonics program, such as found in the author's reading intervention program. Experienced reading teachers know that different students respond differently to reading instruction and some remedial students especially benefit from learning onsets (such as consonant blends) and rimes. The program includes small group activities to remediate all deficits indicated by this 15-minute assessment. The program also provides rimes game card masters and individual sets of business card size game cards in the accompanying Reading and Spelling Game Cards.

Use this 49 item whole class assessment to determine your students' mastery of the most common Greek and Latin prefixes and suffixes. Memorization and practice of these high utility affixes will assist with syllabication, spelling, and vocabulary development. The author's reading intervention program provides Greek and Latin prefix and suffix game card masters and individual sets of business card size game cards in the accompanying Reading and Spelling Game Cards.

The "Pets" expository fluency passage is leveled in a unique pyramid design: the first paragraph is at the first grade ( Fleish-Kincaid) reading level; the second paragraph is at the second grade level; the third paragraph is at the third grade level; the fourth paragraph is at the fourth grade level; the fifth paragraph is at the fifth grade level; the sixth paragraph is at the sixth grade level; and the seventh paragraph is at the seventh grade level. Thus, the reader begins practice at an easier level to build confidence and then moves to more difficult academic language. As the student reads the fluency passage, the teacher will be able to note the reading levels at which the student has a high degree of accuracy and automaticity. Automaticity refers to the ability of the reader to read effortlessly without stumbling or sounding-out words. The 383 word passage permits the teacher to assess two-minute reading fluencies (a much better measurement than a one-minute timing).
* Placement Assessments
The author's reading intervention program includes 43 expository fluency articles (leveled in pyramid design from third to seventh grade reading levels) with word counts and timing charts. Two instructional options for fluency remediation are provided: small group choral reading and YouTube modeled readings at three different reading speeds. Corresponding vocabulary and comprehension worksheets are integral program components.

Grammar Assessment Recording Matrix

Mechanics Assessment Recording Matrix
Spelling Patterns Assessment Matrix
Reading Assessments Recording Matrix
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Pennington Publishing's mission is to provide the finest in assessment-based ELA and reading intervention resources for grades 4‒high school teachers. Mark Pennington is the author of two Standards-aligned programs: and Grammar, Mechanics, Spelling, and Vocabulary (Teaching the Language Strand). Mark's comprehensive and the accompanying Sam and Friends Guided Reading Phonics Books help struggling readers significantly improve their reading skills in a full-year or half-year intensive reading intervention program. Make sure to check out the Pennington Publishing Blog index of hundreds of useful ELA/reading articles and free resources to help teachers use assessment-based whole class and individualized instruction to maximize learning for each of their students.

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EARLY CHILDHOOD - PreK to Kindergarten Academic Skills Assessment (word)