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>> Unlike
the KRA,

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the new kindergarten
readiness assessment,

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it covers content across

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six areas versus
just literacy.

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So with that information,

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we're able to gauge

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if the student has

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the social skills and

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and the physical
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they need when
they start school,

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and we're able to
see if students have

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the skills of sharing

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and following directions,

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and we're able to

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give them the
intervention that they

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need and push
them forward in

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that area if they're
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>> I found that
it was very

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nice in my classroom.

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It was tested over a
long period of time,

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as opposed to the KRA,

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where we set up
appointments for

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the students to come
in in the past,

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and they would be tested

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over one or two days.

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And I found that
when we did that,

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sometimes the
students would

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come in, they
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They would not necessarily

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interact with the teacher.

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>> Using the new
assessment results,

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an example would be
if I pulled a child

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over and I asked them if

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they could tell me I

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told them what
letter it was,

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and I asked them what
sound does it make?

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And if they were
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it would help me drive
my instruction to pull

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them in a small group and

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let them know, well,

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we're going to work
on this and we're

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going to work on it
one-on-one or if

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there was a small group of

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kids that couldn't do
their letter sounds,

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I would pull them over
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And if I also noticed
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my whole group was
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we would do

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a whole group
instruction on it and

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re-teach and keep
practicing with it.

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>> You could fit
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the daily schedule
of the classroom.

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I would do it
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It just worked really

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well with the
daily routine,

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and it worked well
with my classroom.

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I think the children
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enjoy having

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the manipulatives
in their hands.

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>> I really enjoy
the new kindergarten

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readiness assessment
because it's easier.

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It gives a full picture

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of the students' ability,

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and also you can
just embed it

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right into your
instruction time.

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