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Reading Assessment Database: Search Results
The essential cognitive elements of the reading process have been outlined in the Cognitive Framework of Reading.
To assist educators in organizing their assessment practices around the cognitive framework, we've created a way to
easily search for published early reading assessments that specifically test skills and knowledge outlined by the
Cognitive Framework of Reading.
To find out more about the Reading Assessment Database, you can read the
overview page for a description of the database and tips for using it effectively.
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 Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening - 1-3 (PALS-1-3)
Author: Marcia Invernizzi, Joanne Meier, and Connie Juel
Date Published: 2005
| To Purchase this assessment, you must contact the publisher. |
University of Virginia
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http://pals.virginia.edu 1-888-UVA-PALS
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| Cost |
$95.00 for materials to screen 25 students in fall and spring and an assessment training CD-ROM |
| Time to administer |
No time limits, but should be completed within a 2 week window |
| Administration |
Individual or Small Groups |
| Grades |
1, 2, 3 |
Cognitive elements
supported |
Reading Comprehension
Decoding
Cipher Knowledge
Phoneme Awareness
Letter Knowledge
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Subtests and
skills assessed |
Spelling — Student must correctly write increasingly difficult words from dictation.
Letter-Sound Knowledge — Student must provide an appropriate sound (phoneme) that corresponds to each letter
Oral Reading — Student reads appropriate passages of text aloud while the teacher monitors oral reading accuracy and oral reading rate (fluency). Optional comprehension questions are provided for teachers who want to evaluate oral reading comprehension.
For students who have difficulty with the subtests above, more basic reading skills subtests are provided:
Lower-Case Alphabet Recognition — Student must correctly identify lower-case letters.
Letter-Sounds — Students must provide an appropriate sound (phoneme) for each letter or digraph presented.
Concept of Word — Students learn a rhyme by heart, then read the rhyme aloud with the teacher. The student points to words while reading and identifies words that the teacher points out.
Blending — Teacher reads words aloud with a clear pause between each phoneme, and the student must correctly identify the word.
Letter-Sounds in Context — Teacher says words aloud, and the student must provide the first letter or last letter or vowel of each word. |
Language(s) tool can
be administered in |
English |
Score reporting
and test design data |
This is a criterion-referenced assessment; no normative data is provided. This assessment is given to students across the state of Virginia every year, and because of this, item and subtest analyses can be conducted every year on many thousands of kindergarten students (over 500,000 students at the time of this writing). Reliability and validity measures have been regularly gathered since 1997, and are well within expected ranges. Predictive validity measures have been conducted using the Stanford-9 (required of students in Virginia) as well as subsequent measures gathered using the PALS 1-3. |
| Notes |
A CD-ROM with test-administration training is provided with this assessment. |
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