DIBELS Overview First and Second Grade What is

DIBELS Overview First and Second Grade

• • What is DIBELS? ? First and Second Grade Assessments DIBELS Report What can parents do at home?

What is DIBELS? ? • Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) • Brief, but powerful, measures of the critical skills that underlie early reading success • Helps teachers locate, monitor, and intervene with at risk students • Benchmark assessments are given three times per year • Progress monitoring in between the benchmark assessments

First Grade Assessments • • • Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Oral Retelling Fluency

Second Grade Assessments • Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) • Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) • Oral Retelling Fluency

Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) • Students name as many letters (mixed upper case and lower case) as they can in one minute • Powerful indicator of risk

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) • Phoneme – smallest unit of sound in a spoken word /c/ /a/ /t/ • PSF is a direct measure of phoneme awareness. • By the end of kindergarten, children should be able to take apart and pronounce the sounds of a three-phoneme syllable.

Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) • NWF measures the ability to link letters with sounds and use that knowledge to decode three-letter syllables that alone are nonsense words. • Child may say individual sounds or the whole ‘word’.

Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) • Used to measure accuracy and speed in oral reading of graded passages • Timed reading of 3 different passages • Errors are words omitted or substituted, or hesitations of more than 3 seconds.

Oral Retelling Fluency • Asks children to tell as much as they can about what they just read • Score is number of words the child uses to retell the story within one minute.

DIBELS Report

What can parents do at home? • Read, read, read…. . to and with your child. • Have them retell what you or he/she just read. • Ask questions about what was read. • Practice sight word list sent home by teacher • Practice nonsense word list • 100 Juicy Words List