Assessment Support
Early Learners

Fox in a Box^® aligns with the Reading First Essential Elements: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. You'll gain diagnostic information through one-on-one interviews that will help you identify struggling readers and their learning needs, and monitor each child's progress on literacy benchmarks.

 

This unique K–3 literacy assessment helps you identify strengths and areas of opportunity for early readers and provides learning activities that go beyond right or wrong answers. It's a valid and reliable way to measure early learners' development in reading, listening, speaking, and writing.

Test students on all Reading First elements:

The assessment model to the right shows how teachers can use Fox in a Box to guide children on their learning journey. Use Fox in a Box to monitor student progress throughout the school year. Everything you need is included in the Fox in a Box kit.

 

National/State Standards: Fox in a Box, Second Edition, assessments align with federal Reading First goals, which are designed to help every child become a reader by third grade.

Fox Letters and Numbers^™ measures children's conceptual development on learning milestones in Literacy and Mathematics in the year preceding Kindergarten. This research-based observational assessment is engaging, easy to administer, and directly connects to the literacy benchmarks in Fox in a Box and the math benchmarks in Fox Adds Up. The diagnostic information you gather gives you a window into a child's conceptual thinking that goes beyond simple right and wrong answers.

 

Fox Adds Up^® is a developmentally appropriate mathematics assessment which provides engaging, one-on-one activities that help you observe each child's progression along important learning milestones. Its activity-based assessments help teachers accurately assess the development of mathematics concepts in these NCTM strands: Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis and Probability.

 

• Developmentally appropriate, observational assessments
• One–on–one assessment
• Intervention activities customized to student's needs (click on link provided above)
• Assessment activities aligned with NCTM and state standards
• Complete kit of teaching and test administration materials: Teacher's Guide, Observation and Scoring Records, Staff Development DVD, and Mathematics Manipulatives

The assessment model to the right shows how teachers can use Fox Adds Up to guide children on their learning journey.