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First and Second GradeFirst 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, 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