How to Assess Sight Words

Aug 5

Teachers rely on data to know what to plan for their students the rest of the year. Administering a sight word assessment can be time-consuming for reading teachers. Learn how to assess Fry’s or Dolch sight words using a digital assessment. All you have to do is:

download assessment slides.
collect data using the checklist.
analyze student data.

Resource to Assess Sight Words

Teachers are great at being resourceful and thinking about new ways of doing activities.

Instead of the traditional point and read sight word assessment, you can use a no-prep digital assessment to get your assessments competed in record time.

Students will simply view the assessment presentation and name each sight word. While the presentation plays, you can fill in the data spreadsheet that is provided.

Collect and Store Data

While your students are viewing the sight word assessment presentation, you can input their data. The Fry’s sight word spreadsheet has five sheets for different assessments.

In the first sheet, you will assess how well your students know the list of pre-primer words. The other sheets will assess students over the sight word lists from kindergarten through third grade.

There is also a separate spreadsheet available for Dolch sight words. As the student completes the assessment, you will simply add a checkmark when the student has shown mastery of the word.

Analyze Student Data

When the assessment is complete, you will be able to see how many sight words the student knows because the total will automatically populate.

You will be able to keep track of your student’s data throughout the whole year.

Being able to access the assessments digitally will help save you time and resources. You will be able to share data with colleagues and administration whether you are teaching from your classroom or teaching from home.

Worry about one less thing throughout the year with this comprehensive assessment resource. You will feel prepared throughout the year with your sight word data stored in one place!