Intermediate Grammar Pre and Post Assessment (4th-8th Grade)

 Looking for a way to track your students grammar growth? This pre and post intermediate grammar assessment will do the trick!

What is a grammar pre and post assessment?

This grammar assessment is designed to assess 25 intermediate (5th-8th grade) grammar skills. This is a great pre- and post-assessment of grammar skills and standards! 50 multiple choice and matching questions are available in both digital (Google Forms™) and print form. Answer keys organized by grammar skill are provided alongside a skills chart to track students' scores.

This tool serves as a great beginning and end-of-the-year benchmark grammar assessment. Use this assessment to determine student understanding and to determine growth at the end of the year.

Featured Grammar Topics:

Complete sentences

Types of sentences

Compound Sentences

Common/Proper nouns

Singular/Plural nouns

Verbs

Direct/Indirect Objects

Conjunctions (Two Packets- Coordinating and Subordinating/Coordinating)

Complex Sentences

Quotations

Pronouns

Verb Tenses

End Marks- Check out a freebie here!

Commas & Semicolons

Transitions

Adjectives

Adverbs

Prepositions/phrases

More Pronouns

Writing Titles

Verbs: Be and Have

Perfect Tenses

Easily Confused Verbs

Making Comparisons

Contractions

Possessive Nouns

Abbreviations

Punctuation


Why is it important to do a pre and post grammar assessment?

Intermediate grammar skills are tricky because they typically repeat themselves in various forms. For this reason, teachers need to ensure that they are teaching all of the standardized skills that students need to know rather than assuming that another teaching is covering the content. At the same time, teachers do not want to waste time repeating skills that students have mastered. 

Pre-assessments allow teachers to identify a starting point (which will be different for each student!). With this data in mind, teachers can plan accordingly to target specific skills and review those that were mastered. 

Post-assessments allow teachers to determine growth. I love receiving data that helps me determine if my teaching practices were effective. My students also LOVE to see their growth after putting in hard work. This also serves as an excellent precursor to PSSA prep because it specifically reveals review-worthy skills. If applicable, I also try to hand this data off to the next teacher so that they are prepared for their next group. I also have a few groups that I keep from year-to-year, so this is very informative in my own planning for the future growth of my returning students. 

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