I found an assessment from the Portland Public Schools.  The link below takes you to the PDF worksheet that a teacher can go over with each student.

http://www.pps.k12.or.us/curriculum/literacy/video/assessments/k-phonemic.pdf

The assessment has five different areas to assess where kindergartners are in understanding and knowing phonics. These areas include:

• Rhyming Words
• Isolate initial consonants
• Isolate ending consonants
• Blend onset and rimes
• Blend separately spoken phonemes 

Each area gives the teacher instructions as to what they need to tell their student and what response to look for. Each areas has three different dates, indicating that this is to be done at three different times. I obtained a copy of this off of a blog, therefore no instructions other than what is on the sheet itself was provided. I am unaware of the guidelines for time frames as to when the student should be assessed, but assume it is to be done throughout the semester.

What I like about this assessment is that it is a great starting point for teachers to assess where their students are with each area. The teacher can choose to do this assessment individually or in small groups.  Later in the semester, students can touch base again with students to see if they have made any improvements and in which areas. The last assessment after all the lessons have been taught, the teacher can once again go back and do a summative assessment to see how much progress has been made.

The thing I do not care for in this assessment is that it does not indicate any formative assessments. I would change the assessment so that it includes worksheets or lessons that can be done with small groups and/or individuals that are given throughout the semester so that the teacher can make formative assessment throughout their lessons given.