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Kindergarten Screener

Kindergarten Screening Score

The South Madison Community School Corporation kindergarten screening is based on a screener designed at Indiana University.  The screening is designed to assess students’ foundational learning skills.  The scores on the assessment are not a “percentage” or nationally “normed.”  Rather, the scores provide information regarding students’ early literacy, conceptual, and numeracy skills. 

Each section of the screening contains a set of skills.  Your child’s score is a compilation of the points.  It is not expected that students receive every point in every section.  It provides a general awareness of your child’s kindergarten readiness and areas you may reinforce at home.
 

Early Entry Kindergarten Screening Materials

Pre-kindergarten Inventory of Demonstrated Skills, PreKids, is designed to provide insight about what skills a student may or may not have before entering school. This screener is utilized by South Madison for all incoming kindergarten students. It addresses skills based on the Foundation to the Indiana Academic Standards for Young Children from Birth to Age 5 and Indiana’s Academic Standards, Kindergarten including: 

● Oral language 
● Letter, Color, and Number identification
● Phonemic awareness, print awareness, beginning sounds, and rhymes 
● Visual and auditory memory 
● Number sense, Counting, One to One Correspondence, Shape identification, and Measurement Comparison 
● Social skills (i.e. testing observational data 

Brigance early Childhood Screen III

Core Assessments

  • Personal Info
  • Colors
  • ID Pictures
  • Visual Discrimination
  • Visual Motor Skills
  • Gross Motor Skills
  • Verbal Directions
  • Counting
  • Recognizes Quantities

Parent Screener

  • Self Help Skills
  • Social Emotional Skills
  • Reading Readiness Skills