Sample Repeat My Sentence Assessment

This form helps teachers assess students' understanding of the sentence structure of conventional English (syntactic knowledge) and their ability to articulate its sounds. The assessment begins with common short sentence patterns and gradually increases their length, complexity, and form. It is best introduced as an instructional activity with the whole class or a small group. Students are asked to listen and repeat each sentence presented. When students are familiar with the nature of the activity, it can be used as an individual language assessment with those students with whom the teacher has some concern. The teacher says each sentence, pauses for the student to repeat it, and notes what the student says by:
  • crossing out words that were omitted
  • inserting words added
  • writing what the student said under the sentence
  • putting a check mark beside any sentences that the student repeated correctly.

 
Name: ________________________________ Date: ___________________

 

  1. She looks happy.

  2. I have a dog.

  3. I like many different kinds of food.

  4. My father's car needs fixing.

  5. Did you notice what colour the sky is today?

  6. I need to go to the store before I can make supper tonight.

  7. Once upon a time there was a friendly little caterpillar.

  8. My sister reads a lot of books and sometimes she reads magazines.

  9. "Be as quiet as you can while your baby sister is asleep," said her mother.

  10. If you want to make vegetable soup, you should have lots of fresh vegetables.

  11. Don't run so fast in the gym because you might bump into someone.

  12. Why do you need more marbles when you already have a whole bag of them?

  13. If you are kind to your friends, they will know that you care about them.

  14. When she played ball with her friends, her little sister often wanted to play too.

 

Note: This assessment is similar to a longer, multi-leveled assessment tool developed by Clay, Gill, Glynn, McNaughton, and Salmon (1983).