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’.

DIBELS Report

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