These printable alphabet assessment awards will help you determine which children know letters and also inform parents of their progress.
No matter how many letters they do know, children will feel a sense of accomplishment when they take home an award or happy note to show their parents. (These are not intended to be worksheets: you use them as you work with the child, or observe them through play. Then send these home for communication with parents.)
Each award is a half sheet of paper and has 8-9 letters. It says “I can name these letters.” By only having 8-9 letters, it won’t be quite so overwhelming to children as it sometimes can be when naming all 26 uppercase and lowercase at once.
When a child correctly names a letter, mark it on the award so parents can see which ones they know. You could either circle the letters with a marker or highlight over the letters with a highlighter.
You will probably want to record which letters the children can name. A few ways to record them:
- Photocopy the awards for your files.
- Take a photo of the awards and save them in a folder on your computer.
- Record the letters they know on a letter assessment form <– at the link.
To download the awards, click the button below:
Feel free to request a certain award, and if it is Pre-K appropriate, I will put it on the to-do list.
Find more assessment ideas on my Assessment page.
Note: If any letters are not formed the way you feel they should be, they can be changed with a marker and white-out. Draw lines on the uppercase I, make a top on the uppercase J, etc. as it suits you.
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Thanks, Karen! I plan to use these in my Kindergarten Classroom to let the parents know how their child is doing. It is also fun for the kids to see their progress.
Thank you! Glad to hear they will be useful in Kindergarten as well.
I just wanted to let you know that I absolutely LOVE PreKinders! It is the best website for preschoolers I have viewed yet! It has helped me so much in my Head Start classroom. Keep up the good work and keep the awesome materials coming:)-
Thanks, Cassie!
Thank you!! LOve love love these. Looking forward to the colors & shapes for my two’s.
Thank you so much for sharing your work. I literally use almost all of the printables that you share with your blog followers! My students beg me to get out the patterns you have created for the pattern blocks. Thank you for making my classroom more exciting. 🙂
Thank you for such a nice comment, Kristen! Glad to hear your students enjoy the pattern block mats.
Love this, great for data notebooks !
Hi Karen,
This is an awesome idea. I plan on incorporating this now and saving a hard copy for my future students.
Thank you for sharing your very creative ideas with me. I look forward to seeing what you come up with next. My students enjoy and have been enjoying all the activities that you have provided. They are very engaging and motivational. Gracias- Thank you.
Thank you, Anita!
Love them! Great job as always…:)
These are awesome! What a great and quick way to show parents the progress their kids made. Can’t wait for the other assessment awards.
Great, I enjoy your website.
I love it! Perfect and rewarding for students!
i love, love, love these! such a fun, creative way to let the parents know what their child has accomplished! and something for the child to show off at home! they could even color the letters they know themselves! thank you so much for sharing these with all of us! 🙂
Thanks Karen love these for our school readiness program so parents can see where their child is up too.
Can’t wait for the others!!
Great idea! Easy to keep track of assessments and a awesome way to keep parents in the know on how their child is doing. Love the emphasis on celebrating what a child knows.
Thank you very much for these assessments. It will be very useful during data collection for progress reporting.
Karen I love all of your ideas they help out a lot!
Thanks for the nice comments, everyone!
Thanks Ms.Karen, I will definitely use this for my prescholl kids,they’re gonna love it!
THANKS YOU ARE MAKING MY LIFE EASIER WITH THESE REWARDS…
Thanks Karen for these assessment records. I’ll definitely use them for my little children in school.
Thank you for sharing this, really love it..
looking forward to your further posts.
Wow!! These Assessment tools are amazing and so easy to use.
Thanks!!!
Thank you so much for this site. I will be teaching Pre K in the Fall of 2015 and have been searching for websites to give me ideas. I am at a disadvantage because this is a pilot project for this school and I will have to share a space with our Before/After School Care Program as they ‘test’ it out to see if it is viable. I am really excited and terribly apprehensive at the same time. If there is anyone out there who can give me advice on a few things, I would be solo appreciative.
1) How do you set up a temporary space that will, for the most part, have to be taken down and put back every day?
2) How do I find websites/teachers that can give me solutions for temporary centres?
3) We do not have a ‘curriculum’ to follow in Pre K here so I am having to write curriculum for this class. (22 students of 3 and 4 year olds mixed, 3 hours a morning). Where do I find centre ideas and actual lesson plans?
Your site is WONDERFUL and so INFORMATIVE and I thank you for that. Is there anyone else out there who can also give me ideas for writing curriculum?