Letter Identification Assessment

Purpose

The Letter Identification Assessment allows teachers to determine a student’s

knowledge of the alphabet. Students are asked to name uppercase and lowercase
letters in isolation, as well as sounds of lowercase letters.

Administration

- Give the student a copy of the Letter Identification Student sheets.

- Begin with the uppercase letter sheet and ask the student to name each letter
from left to right.
- Record the student’s correct responses with a check mark in the Name column
next to the corresponding letter on the Letter Identification Teacher sheet.
- You may choose to also record the student’s incorrect responses by
documenting them in the Notes column next to the corresponding letter.
- Encourage the student to try every letter, allowing him/her to skip unknown
letters.
- Do not offer the student any assistance except to ask him/her to move on to
the next letter as needed.
- Repeat for lowercase letter names and lowercase letter sounds.

Analysis

- Review the letters and sounds the student identified correctly. Compare the
student’s letter and sound recognition to those letters that have already been
formally introduced in classroom instruction. Note which letters require re-
teaching or review. It is also important to note which letters the student can
identify in his/her own name as a source of information to guide instruction.

- Although the Letter Identification Assessment shows a student’s knowledge of

letters in isolation, this information can be helpful in determining which
consonant-vowel-consonant words the child might be ready to decode and
encode during guided instruction.

DJUSD 2012 - Kindergarten

 Letter Identification Name: ______________________________

Uppercase Names: _______/26 _______/26 _______/26 _______/26

Lowercase Names: _______/28 _______/28 _______/28 _______/28

Letter Sounds: _______/26 _______/26 _______/26 _______/26

Date: _________ _________ _________ _________

Letter Name Sound Notes Letter Name Sound Notes

A a
F f
K k
P p
W w
Z z
B b
H h
O o
J j
U u
a
C c
Y y
L l
Q q
X x
D d
N n
S s
M m
I i
E e
G g
R r
V v
T t
g

DJUSD 2012 - Kindergarten

 Letter Identification

A F K P W
Z B H O J
U C Y L
Q X D N S
M I E G R
V T
DJUSD 2012 - Kindergarten
 Letter Identification

a f k p w
z b h o j
u a c y l
q x d n s
m i e g r
v t g
DJUSD 2012 - Kindergarten