| Task | Skills assessed | Comments |
| Structured developmental tasks for any age |
- Ask the child to:
- Draw lines or shapes (circle, square, cross, star)
- Print their name and some additional letters
- Print all of the letters of the alphabet
- Draw a person
| - Pencil/crayon grip
- Visual motor skills
| - These skills are mastered between 2 and 6 years of age.
- The child should be able to:
- Draw:
- A circle by 2 years
- A square by 3 years
- A cross by 4 years
- A star by 5.5 years
- Produce recognizable letters and print their name by 6 years
- Print all of the letters of the alphabet by the end of kindergarten or early grade 1
- Draw a human figure by age 6 years; the number of included human features increases with age; as a rough guide:
- 4 years: Head, facial features, and limbs
- 5 years: Head, body, facial features, and limbs
- 6 years: Head, body, facial features, limbs, hands, feet, and other details (eg, such as hair, fingers, toes, eyelashes, ears, clothing)
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- Document verbatim how the child responds when you:
- Ask them to describe a picture from a book
- Ask them to describe the story line from a series of 4 to 6 pictures
- Ask them to respond to some questions about the pictures
| - Pronunciation and articulation
- Grammar
- Relevance/appropriateness of the response
- Narrative skills (ability to deliver information in a logical sequence)
- Attention span
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| Kindergarten children |
| Reading/writing/language skills |
- "Say 'fireman' without saying 'man'"
- Knows simple rhymes – "What rhymes with 'rat'?"
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| Math skills |
- Ask the child to count 2 sets of objects, then ask which set is 'more' or 'less'
- Ask the child to identify what is bigger/smaller; heavy/light; long/short; near/far
- Ask the child to count to 10 or 20
- Ask the child to identify some printed numbers
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| Grade 1 children |
| Reading writing/language skills |
- Ask the child what rhymes with "mat"
- "If you take the 'h' sound from 'hat,' what do you get?"; "If you take the 't' sound in 'take' and replace it with an 'm,' what do you get?"
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- Ask the child to spell some single-syllable and double-syllable words from dictation
| - Pencil grip
- Handwriting
- Phonics and encoding (spelling) skills
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- Ask the child to read some single-syllable words
- Ask the child to read a list of words, including some nonsense words
| - Phonics and decoding skills (sounding out words)
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| Math skills |
- Ask the child to do single-digit addition or subtraction, using objects
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- Ask the child to do addition or subtraction using paper, pencil, and/or preprinted numerals
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