1. CASD K-6 Transition Plan from DIBELS to DIBELS Next

2. Purpose of DIBELS Next
Ensure that children have the necessary early literacy skills so that reading instruction can establish a trajectory of satisfaction literacy acquisition.

3. Our transition plan…
Fall 2005 to Spring 2011 we used DIBELS as our Universal Screening tool for students in Kindergarten through 6th Grade.
We used Wireless Generation in conjunction with the Palm to record data from the tests.
mClass costly
Palm devices becoming outdated
Summer/Fall 2011 made the change to VPort for electronic scoring and data storage.

4. DIBELS Next …What’s Different??
All measures have been updated with:
New directions
New items
New early reader font (a-a)
New practice items
New format
New Measure – DIBELS Daze and First Sound Fluency
New research on all measures carried out over 4 years on over 25,000 children in over 90 schools.
New passages – readability is grade appropriate and eliminates the “bounce effect”-formula to level passages and decrease variability of DORF scores
Retell is part of DORF – the score is factored in more heavily
New reliability data
New validity data
New user-friendly format

5. DIBELS Next Test Sections
First Sound Fluency (FSF) – Replaces Initial Sound Fluency
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) **handscored
Letter Naming Fluency (LNF)
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) **handscored
DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (DORF)
Daze (DIBELS Maze – cloze activity that assesses comprehension, knowledge of vocabulary and context…given individually or whole group for grades 3-6)

6. Universal Screening Assessment
Brief assessment of critical reading skills
Predictive of future reading growth
Administered to all K-6 students at the beginning of the year
Used to classify children as at risk or low risk for reading failure
Used to identify children who need additional support and diagnostic testing
Title 1- placing students, exiting students
Determine and re-determine level reading groups
Remedial instruction for fluency
Special Education- IEP goals, progress monitoring

8. Progress Monitoring Assessment conducted 3 times a year
Intensive Students- 2 to 4 times per month
Strategic Students- 1 to 2 times per month
Benchmark Students- not needed- however; RECOMMENDED before next assessment to make sure student is making progress in maintaining the next benchmark’s goal

9. DIBELS Next Data
After students are administered the DIBELS Next assessment
Watch List- students that are Intensive to Stategic that need extra attention. Please list their beginning benchmark number score.
Move Up List- strategic students who barely missed the Benchmark level. Please list their beginning benchmark number score.
Maintain List- benchmarked students who barely Benchmarked. Please list their beginning benchmark number score.
List 2 fluency interventions or activities that you will try with students before the November faculty meeting.
Do you have any additional questions related to DIBELS administration, intepretation of the data and/or instructional interventions?

10. Longitudinal Data- Kindergarten to Grade 4

11. Longitudinal Data- Kindergarten to Grade 5

12. Questions