DIBELS

DIBELS DIBELS stamds fpr Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills. It is a test that is given to grades kindergarten through third at our school. It is given three times a year It is given in August, January, and April. There are four subtests given in kindergarten. I will explain each test below. Every subtest will not be given during very benchmark test. For example, during the first benchmark test, only Initial Sound Fluency and Letter Naming Fluency will be given. The DIBELS test is given by a team at our school. I will not give the actual test to my students, but I will do practice tests (called progress monitoring) with your child throughout the year. After each benchmark test is given, I will send home a letter that will include your chil's scores. The letter will include the benchmark (goal) of the test.

__Initial Sound Fluency__ During this test each child will be shown four pictures. I will name each picture and ask the child to repeat the name of each picture after me. I will then ask four questions. The first three questions will be, "Which picture begins with (then I will make a letter sound like /s/)?" The student can point to or name the picture that begins with the sound I asked for. The fourth question will be, "What sound does (then I will name one of the ppictures) begin with?" The child should make the sound that picture begins with.

__Letter Naming Fluency__ The student will be given a piece of paper with letters in rows of ten in random order. He or she will be asked to name as many lof the etters as possible in one minute.

__Phoneme Segmentation Fluency__ I will say a word and the child will tell me each sound in the word by stretching it out. For example, I will say //cat// and the child will respond /c/ /a/ /t/

__Nonsense Word Fluency__ The student will be given a piece of paper with nonsense (make-believe) words in rows on it. The child will be asked to read the words or give the sound each letter stands for. For example is the word is sim, the child can say ///s/ /i/ /m/// or //sim.//