Ontario report card comments by grade and subject

Choose a grade and a subject to see sample Ontario report card comments from the Studio's comment bank, from strengths to next steps at every level. Each page opens the same comments in the free Studio, where names stay on your computer.

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How Ontario reports

The Elementary Progress Report Card goes home between October 20 and November 20.
Schools will use the Elementary Progress Report Card between October 20 and November 20 of the school year.
Ontario Ministry of Education, Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools (2010), p. 53 · Source
Each subject on the progress report gets one of three progress indicators.
Teachers will check one of the following to indicate progress: Progressing With Difficulty / Progressing Well / Progressing Very Well
Ontario Ministry of Education, Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools (2010), p. 56 · Source

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The Studio is free. These printable reporting resources are separate products on this site, each for the place named in its title; open a product page to see its pages, contents and licence.

Ontario Report Season Kit — Grades 1–8: Four resources in one download for Grades 1–8: a 20-page evidence organizer, a 20-page learning-skills tracker, 516 progress-report comment drafts and 480 learning-skills drafts. The parts are also sold separately, so check what you already own.
Ontario Learning Skills Comment Bank: 480 learning-skills comments and 20 general opening and closing comments, as a PDF, an editable Word document and an editable Excel workbook, to adapt to your own evidence.
Ontario Learning Skills & Work Habits Tracker: A print-and-write tracker for recording classroom evidence before you use professional judgement for reporting.
Ontario Anecdotal Notes & Evidence Organizer: Printable forms and class tools for observations, conversations and products, Kindergarten to Grade 8.
Ontario Kindergarten Communication of Learning Kit: A whole-class tracker for the 25 overall expectations and 450 sample comments that you adapt; nothing fills in automatically.