PALS - Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening
2016-2017 PALS Testing Dates |
What is PALS?PALS stands for Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening, a tool teachers use to:
Teachers give students the PALS screener three times per year: the beginning, the middle (optional), and the end of the school year. |
4K - 2nd Grade - Form B
September 12th - October 21st
January 9th - 24th (Optional)
April 24th - May 8th
September 12th - October 21st
January 9th - 24th (Optional)
April 24th - May 8th
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Staff Information & Resources
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What does PALS test?
- PALS-PreK - Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Preschool measures:
- Name Writing
- Alphabet Knowledge
- Beginning Sound Awareness
- Print and Word Awareness
- Rhyme Awareness
- Nursery Rhyme Awareness
- PALS-K - Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Kindergarten measures:
- Phonological awareness
- Alphabet knowledge
- Knowledge of letter sounds
- Spelling
- Concept of Word
- Word recognition in isolation
- PALS 1-3 - Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for first through third grades. Wisconsin first grade teachers are following the procedures and scoring for first grade. *BELOIT DOES NOT ADMINISTER PALS IN 3rd GRADE
- Spelling
- Word knowledge
- Letter Sounds
- Oral Reading in Context
- Alphabet knowledge (for students who have more basic literacy skills)
- Phonemic Awareness (for students who have more basic literacy skills)