I have had a rough week. Rough. For example, I broke a vase at Target today, which by the way, is very embarrassing. Then came home and made my very last K-cup of iced green tea and spilled the ENTIRE cup out on the counter. Where I my purse was. Sigh. Nothing seems to quite be going my way…however….I FINISHED THIS:
WOOHOO! I have had several emails about you guys wanting these and I have finally managed to focus for long enough to get them done. These were more of a challenge than the Speaking & Listening Rating Scales, as the writing component of the Language standards threw a wrench in the system. But I figured it out with lots of trial and error. And error. 🙂
So for L.1, the standard reads for writing AND speaking. I really wanted to make sure to separate out the writing from speaking, since those skills can vary quite a bit, so I was able to create two columns for rating…one for writing and one for speaking. L.2 is strictly a writing strand, so if you are not looking at those skills, you can simply cross that box out and skip it…you just won't add those into your total score. L.3 doesn't exist until 2nd grade…that standard is just skipped in K-1 standards.
The rest of the ratings look very similar to the Speaking & Listening version. Each standard is broken down by “I can”statements, which will be rated on a scale from 1 to 4. All skills are easily observable in the classroom setting and a scoring key is provided on each page. Ratings for each skill are added and divided by the total to yield an overall score, the goal being 75%. This goal was established based on a rating of at least ‘3’ for each skill in the standard, which would indicate the student is demonstrating the skill most of the time. 
The summary form is great for giving an overall snapshot of the data collected in the ratings completed.
Last is the teacher template letter that you can use to accompany the scales when giving them to teachers to complete.
I have found the Speaking & Listening Scales really useful for gathering data about new students referred to me, as well as for determining present levels for my current students before IEP meetings, so I am super excited to add the Language Scales to my toolbox! It is great information and I feel like I really know how my students are doing as related to the standards…and that's always impressive!
You can hop over to TPT and find the Common Core Language Rating Scales.
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These ratings scales look so helpful. Often the other assessments that I find are not very relevant to what is actually happening in the classroom, but that is not the case with these. Thanks for another awesome product!
Sarah Garner
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Thank you so much for making these! They look great!
I am currently looking for ways to get baseline data and ways to assess new referrals. This looks wonderful. I cannot wait to use this with my students.
I use something similar at annual review time in order to gather information about specific skills for IEP profiles, but this would be very helpful for the remainder of the year for data collection on referrals. Thanks!
I am always looking for ways to document progress and be more effective/appropriate with therapy as well as assessing new referrals/students.
This would be a great way to receive teacher input! Definitely a good way to document strengths and weaknesses that teachers would be observing in the classroom!
At first I thought I already had this, but I have the Speaking/Listening one, so this will be a good companion to that set. There are so many standards to know about, so this will definitely help us SLP’s who are not in the classroom know about what’s going on in the classroom, and at all those grade levels, too!
Just wish that 6th grade was included, as there are many elementary schools that still have 6th graders before they go to middle school.
This product would be so helpful for determining present levels before an Annual Review and for comparing my students to typical peers!
This product would help me with the present levels before an annual review.
I’m an “old dog” in my district but you TPT youngsters keep teaching me new tricks and I LOVE it!
Jenn, you did an excellent job creating these rating scales! I anticipate this resource being quite useful!
This would help me organize information for my year end reports.
I would use this with my elementary students. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love this for determining eligibility and writing goals! This would be so useful for me! Thanks for sharing and the giveaway opportunity! This product looks/sounds amazing!
These look like they would be very useful for getting teacher input and for deciding on placement and goals
This would be so helpful and make things less complicated to have everything laid out so nicely in conjunction with the ccss.
I can use this resource for getting teacher input on where their students’ skills are in determining appropriate language goals as well as in determining whether it is appropriate to evaluate a student.
This would be so helpful!
Our district is moving toward including common core standards in our goal writing so these would be helpful in aligning with the rest of the school.
With all the grades moving towards common core this will be helpful for both me and the teachers 🙂
We are using Common Core for all of our IEP’s so I think this would be VERY handy!! Thanks, Jenn!!
This would be so helpful for me and other staff.
Natalie Ibarra calderon
This would be great to see where my kids are!
I would use it to get baseline data!