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PALS 1-3 is used with students in 1st through 3rd grades to identify students at risk of reading difficulties. These assessments are designed to measure students’ knowledge of important literacy fundamentals and can be used to provide teachers with information to help guide their teaching.

Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)

This details a brief, specialized assessment designed to screen students in kindergarten and first grade for potential reading difficulties, including dyslexia. By measuring how quickly and accurately a child can name a repeated set of familiar objects, letters, or numbers, this tool provides educators with a powerful “early warning” indicator that works alongside other literacy measures to identify students who may need targeted intervention.

Using data to shape instruction

This topic explores types of assessments that can be used to gather data and inform instruction. It also includes information on following a data-based decision-making cycle in order to make informed decisions about instruction at the school level and classroom level.

Data Based Decision Making for Administrators

This webinar explains how to use data-based decision making to plan instruction and includes a slide deck detailing the Virginia Language and Literacy Screening System (VALLSS) and its role in assessment and instructional planning.

Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests

The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests® (GMRT®), Fourth Edition, are research-validated assessments trusted by educators to accurately identify students’ reading strengths and needs. They help teachers understand diverse reading levels and tailor instruction to support every learner.

FastBridge

FastBridge Adaptive Reading (aReading) is a brief, reliable, and valid assessment used for universal screening and monitoring of student growth throughout the year for students in Kindergarten through Grade 12.

DIBELS 8th Edition

DIBELS 8th Edition is a set of brief, standardized measures used to screen and monitor early literacy skills. Subtests such as Letter Naming Fluency (LNF), Phonemic Segmentation Fluency (PSF), and Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) assess key foundational reading abilities and help identify students at risk for reading difficulties in the early grades.

Acadience Reading K-6

Acadience Reading (previously published under the DIBELS Next® mark) is a screening and progress monitoring assessment used to measure early literacy and reading skills for students in grades K-6.

Acadience Reading Pre-K: PELI

The Preschool Early Literacy Indicators (PELI®) is an individually administered assessment of essential skills for early literacy development in children who are 3 to 5 years of age.

Universal Screeners – Virginia Literacy Partnerships: VALLSS

The VALLSS screening system is used with students in Pre-K through 3rd grades to identify students at risk of reading difficulties. These assessments are designed to measure students’ knowledge of important literacy skills and can be used to provide teachers with information to help guide their teaching.