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Diagnostic Adult Literacy
Assessment for Beginning Readers
DALA is a user-friendly
assessment, specifically
designed to assess the literacy
skills of very beginning readers.
Tool Kit Components
• Activity Book
• 25 Examiner
What are the features What are the benefits
Record Booklets
of DALA? of DALA?
• Alphabet Card Deck
• Uses relevant and • Can be used to inform
authentic texts and tasks instruction and measure • Photo Story
• Reflects the reading progress. • Instructional DVD
development process • Ten subtests provide • Instructional Manual
• Easy to administer diagnostic information,
and score enabling the design of
individualized lesson plans
What does DALA assess?
The ten subtests
measure a student’s
knowledge of
• Environmental Print
• Text Functions
• Print Concepts and
Conventions
• Letter Names
• Phonemic Awareness:
Beginning Sounds
• Phonemic Awareness:
Rhymes
• High Frequency Words
• Phonics
• Alphabetic Principle
This subtest assesses
student’s knowledge of • Literacy Practices
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How does the DVD
benefit educators?
The 42-minute DVD demonstrates how to
administer DALA’s subtests and how to teach
beginning readers using effective strategies such
as duet reading, sound boxes, word families,
and the think-aloud process.
How does the
instructional manual
benefit tutors?
The manual, entitled Teaching Beginning Readers,
provides principles for working with beginning
readers, twenty teaching strategies, and sample
lesson plans. The strategies, which are illustrated
with line drawings, can be photocopied. (74 pp.)
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DALA Tool Kit 978-1-926583-12-9 4-3334 $195.95
Teaching Beginning Readers
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