These assesments are very useful.
I suggest to have them posted directly in the parent’s resources page.

Because in a lot of families both parents work and because parents expect school today to be similar to they way school used to be when they went to school and because they get positive assesments from school it may take quite a long time to discover and then to come to terms with the fact that their child is behind.

As the skills of reading, spelling, doing basic arithmetic are so basic to any other learning, the sooner a child gets help learning them the better.

If only there was a way to publish these in a newspaper ...

Also I would suggest that
-  a one page of “what your child should know by the end of grade 1”
- and a list of “10 things to watch for in elementary years” 
would also be very useful.

I can start the “10 things to watch for” list with
1) Your child protests and gets upset when you suggest he reads a new book. He tells you that reading a book along is done only after they have read that book in class several times.
What it may mean: he is taught that reading means memorizing, he does not know how to read.

This actually happened to a friend!

Yes, having assessments like the above are helpful to parents. Posted from Europe, suggested a list of things to watch for, and her example is quite common in our schools. I presented assessments like the ones above, starting in grade one, and it was quickly dismiss by the schools. Their assessments where more accurate than the ones that I had. From grade 1 up to grade 3, before she was identified as having dyslexia, the practice was before a reading or writing assessment took place, she was given the material 2 or 3 days before the assessment, to practice. Of course she passed the assessments, than used that to denied an psycho-educational assessments on that basis. I objected over and over, but to no avail. The school saw me as a trouble maker, and a parent who did not provide the right environment for literacy success at home, even though none had ever graced my doorway, they still felt justified to utter remarks about my parenting ability.

You aren’t alone Nancy. Sometimes how the system reacts to parents with Intelligent questions or suggestions for improvement proves that there is no willingness to see parents other than trouble makers or whipped into handy cheerleaders, just because.