35 Rubrics and checklists shows how to use rubrics and checklists as an assessment tool for K-2 grades. This book shows how to create rubrics and checklists for writing, spelling, oral reading, reading comprehension, literacy knowledge, and content areas. I enjoyed that it shows how to create rubrics as well as give you many that can be reproducible. The book was an easy and quick read with many pictures and examples to ease a teacherís mind. I find it a valuable resource for the primary level teacher who doesnít have time to create their own rubrics or a new teacher. As an added bonus the book also has scoring tips, planning forms for students, and follow-up strategies for reading and writing.

Essential Beliefs:

1. What we are after is a way to assess the knowledge the child has demonstrated in performance. This is a valid holistic approach to evaluation, because it relies on a set of criteria for varying levels of achievement.
2. Assess and reassess every three months or so to look for growth.
3. Rubrics inform and improve instruction. They give high expectations for students to strive to achieve them.

1. Youíll find that rubrics can be time-savers. With some practice, youíll be able to score a performance task in just a few minutes.
2. Plan on spending five to seven minutes on each childís assessment in oral reading
3. Be sure to select a story with a clear plot, characters, and situations that young children can relate to, and a problem and resolution, which they can write about.