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Students’ Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening And School Readiness, Jeannette D. Triplett Mrs.
Students’ Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening And School Readiness, Jeannette D. Triplett Mrs.
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Public school kindergarten programs have become increasingly more academic and have educators debating about what skills best serve children in kindergarten that will prepare them for later academic achievement. The Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) is a screening instrument used in Virginia to assess kindergarten students and students in grades 1 through 3. Kindergarten teachers want to make sure that with the more demanding curriculum, and increase in rigorous standards, that students enter kindergarten ready to learn.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between students’ kindergarten PALS scores and first grade PALS scores in a southwestern …