PALS

Last week we began training for PALS (Peer Assisted Learning Strategies) and beginning on Tuesday we will start using PALS.

Here is an overview of what we do in PALS.
- Students are paired up into groups of 2 by the teacher.
- One person reads while the other is the coach, checking for questions and asking questions when needed.
- Students take turns reading for about 5 minutes each.
- It takes place three times a week for about 15 minutes each day.
- Each day we have a different objective for our reading (Partner Reading, Paragraph Shrinking, and Prediction Relay).
- The objective is to help studens with oral fluency and comprehension.

This group began PALS in second grade, but there are a few more parts to it in third grade.