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DIBELS Overview. Kindergarten. What is DIBELS?? Kindergarten Assessments DIBELS Report What can parents do at home?. What is DIBELS??. D ynamic I ndicators of B asic E arly L iteracy S kills (DIBELS)
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DIBELS Overview Kindergarten
What is DIBELS?? • Kindergarten 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
Kindergarten Assessments • Initial Sound Fluency (ISF) • Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) • Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) • Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)
Initial Sound Fluency (ISF) • Measures the child’s ability to identify, isolate, and pronounce the first sound of an orally presented word • Score is the number of correct initial sounds given per minute
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’.
What can parents do at home? • Read, read, read, read…..to and with your child. • Drill on ABCs and numbers (mix them up) - handout • Practice writing their name (need to know how to spell it without looking) • Handouts • Beginning sounds • 100 Juicy Words List