In most states kindergarten entry assessments (KEA) are employed primarily to inform parents and teachers. KEAs can serve as a key indicator of child development at formal school entry to inform education, but also could serve as a baseline for assessing progress in the early grades. However, their usefulness for this purpose is limited because KEAs tend to be separate assessments that are neither integrated nor aligned with other state-required K-2 assessments. Recently, the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) was asked by a state's Deputy Commissioner if there are any states using a consistent tool across the early learning grades. The Governor's office is seeking to have a more comprehensive approach to assessment across the early childhood band that goes beyond "academic" areas such as reading and math but also includes social emotional, physical, and soft skills. In this brief, the authors examine the assessment tools used in kindergarten through 2nd grade and their content. Next steps will be to examine how data collected from these assessments are used as well as how pre-K child assessments align with state KEAs.