Describe your school, audience, and readiness areas. Makeform creates a parent or teacher survey covering communication, independence, social-emotional skills, early learning, motor development, and routines—without a pass-or-fail label.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it, or send it to the builder. Each example is a starting structure, not a standardized assessment.
Audience
Families of incoming kindergarten students
Format
Friendly sectioned survey with frequency scales
Prompt size
338 chars
Example survey structure
Friendly sectioned survey with frequency scales
Child details and preschool experience
Communication and social skills
Self-care and classroom independence
Early learning and motor skills
Strengths, support needs, and follow-up
Suggested routing tags
Parent responses
Teacher observations
Follow-up requested
Ask about observable behavior with a balanced scale and a comment box instead of asking whether a child is simply ready.
Step 1
Choose
parent, caregiver, teacher, or shared survey
Step 2
Observe
rate specific skills with a balanced scale
Step 3
Understand
review strengths, context, and support needs
Step 4
Prepare
plan conversations and transition activities
A useful readiness snapshot
A structured survey gives families and educators the same observable behaviors to consider while leaving room for context.
Group communication, participation, independence, early learning, and movement questions around what respondents observe.
Share core questions, then branch to home or classroom examples because behavior can differ by setting.
Ask about difficult routines, helpful strategies, and whether the respondent wants a conversation.
Built for transition planning
Choose your program moment, then edit the language, scale, and follow-up path.
Gather home routines, interests, languages, independence, and family questions.
Capture observations, examples, and successful classroom strategies.
Offer a short checklist and resources for routines families want to practice.
Route follow-up requests and bring strengths, questions, and context into meetings.
Survey workflow
Build around observable behavior, review the wording, and organize responses for follow-up rather than a single verdict.
Name the respondents, timing, and how staff will use the answers.
Use observable actions and add Not sure or Not enough opportunity to distinguish missing evidence.
Branch for home examples, teacher evidence, language or access needs, and contact requests.
Keep comments beside ratings and prepare resources or conversations without diagnosing or ranking children.
Question design choices
Choose questions that preserve examples, uncertainty, and differences in opportunity.
Field guide
These six sections cover how a child communicates, participates, learns, moves, manages routines, and experiences support.
Communication
Use everyday behaviors and include the child's languages and communication methods.
Social-emotional participation
Ask about turn-taking, separation, frustration, transitions, and strategies that help.
Independence & routines
Ask about current experience without implying every task must be independent before kindergarten.
Language & early literacy
Look beyond letters to stories, print, rhyming, drawing, and attempts to write.
Early mathematical thinking
Ask about playful counting, comparing, sorting, shapes, and patterns rather than timed performance.
Motor, sensory & access
Cover movement, tools, sensory preferences, and access needs without inferring a diagnosis.
Related tools
Pair readiness responses with family feedback, enrollment, registration, and progress forms.
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Open toolFAQ
Answers for schools designing a parent or teacher readiness survey.
A kindergarten readiness survey asks a parent, caregiver, or teacher about observable skills and experiences. It can cover communication, independence, early learning, motor skills, interests, and support needs. Use it for planning, not diagnosis or admission.
Ask about expressing needs, directions, turn-taking, transitions, belongings, books, drawing, playful counting, classroom tools, and movement. Include strengths, languages, interests, helpful strategies, access needs, and family questions.
They can share core areas and a response scale, then branch to home or classroom examples. Differences offer context because behavior can vary with people, routines, language, and opportunity.
Try Consistently, Often, Sometimes, Not yet observed, and Not enough opportunity. Include Not sure for families. Define each choice and add comments for examples or support context.
A total can hide differences in opportunity, language, environment, and support. Grouped responses and comments preserve more context. Keep any formal screening instrument and its required process separate from this custom survey.
Lead with strengths and explain the purpose. Use plain language, allow Not sure, and avoid implying every item must be mastered. Ask about language, accessibility, and follow-up. Review before sending.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free forms and responses for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge. Edit the survey before sharing it.
Review by readiness area while keeping role and comments visible. Prepare resources and transition questions from the patterns. Limit access according to school policy. Do not rank children or treat blanks as missing skills.
Start with strengths, then plan the transition.
