2. DIBELS ® Assess the Basic Early Literacy Skills 2

3. What is Daze? Daze is the standardized, DIBELS ® version of maze procedures for measuring reading comprehension. Grades 3-6, group administered The purpose of a maze procedure is to measure the reasoning processes that constitute comprehension. Daze assesses the student’s ability to construct meaning from text using word recognition skills, background information and prior knowledge, familiarity with linguistic properties such as syntax and morphology, and cause and effect reasoning skills. Can be used as a progress monitor probe for students that are accurate and fluent readers. If students are not accurate, only use the DORF and don’t worry about progress monitoring using the DAZE. 3

4. DIBELS Maze (Daze) 4

5. Daze 5 Assessor asks students to read a passage and circle the word that makes the most sense in the story. Group or individually administered measure. Score: Number of correct responses, adjusted for guessing.

6. Administration Directions 1Make sure each student has a pencil. Before handing out the worksheet, tell the students I’m going to give you a worksheet. When you get your worksheet, please write your name at the top and put your pencil down. 2Hand out the Daze worksheet. Make sure each student has the appropriate worksheet. If the worksheets are in a booklet, make sure each student's booklet is open to the correct worksheet. 3When all of the students are ready say You are going to read a story with some missing words. For each missing word there will be a box with three words. Circle the word that makes the most sense in the story. Look at Practice 1. 6

7. Administration Directions cont’d. 4.Say Listen. After playing in the dirt, Sam went (pause) home, summer, was (pause) to wash her hands. You should circle the word “home” because “home” makes the most sense in the story. Listen. After playing in the dirt, Sam went home to wash her hands. 5.Say Now it is your turn. Read Practice 2 silently. When you come to a box, read all the words in the box and circle the word that makes the most sense in the story. When you are done, put your pencil down. 7

8. Administration Directions cont’d. 6.Allow up to 30 seconds for students to complete the example and put their pencils down. If necessary, after 30 seconds say Put your pencil down. 7.As soon as all students have their pencils down say, Listen. On her way home she (pause) chair, sleep, saw (pause) an ice cream truck. You should have circled “saw” because “saw” makes the most sense in the story. Listen. On her way home she saw an ice cream truck. 8.Say When I say “begin,” turn the page over and start reading the story silently. When you come to a box, read all the words in the box and circle the word that makes the most sense in the story. Ready, begin. 8

9. Administration Directions cont’d. 8.Start your stopwatch after you say, Begin. (Move throughout the classroom.) 9.Use reminders as needed. 10.At the end of 3 minutes say Stop. Put your pencil down. 11.Collect all of the Daze worksheets. 9

10. Score and Scoring Rules The student receives 1 point for each correct word. A response is correct if the student circled or otherwise marked the correct word. Put a slash ( / ) through any incorrect responses. Incorrect responses include errors, boxes with more than one answer marked, and items left blank (if they occur before the last item the student attempted within the 3-minute time limit). Items left blank because the student could not get to them before time ran out do not need to be slashed and do not count as incorrect responses. If there are erasure marks, scratched out words, or any other extraneous markings, but the student’s final response is obvious, score the item based on that response. 10

11. Reminders If a student starts reading the passage out loud, say, Remember to read the story silently. If a student is not working on the task say Remember to circle the word in each box that makes the most sense in the story. If a student asks you to provide a word for them or for help with the task, say, Just do your best. These reminders may be given as often as needed. 11

12. Scoring Example: Correct Response My friend, Tyronne, goes to a different school than I do, even though he lives in my neighborhood. At his school, there are programs in different languages. One of those is called American Sign Language and I want to more about it. still languages provided handed languages why learn set quietly 12

13. Scoring Example: Incorrect Response My friend, Tyronne, goes to a different school than I do, even though he lives in my neighborhood. At his school, there are programs in different languages. One of those is called American Sign Language and I want to more about it. still languages provided handed languages why learn set quietly 13

14. Final Score: Student Copy 14 Use the scoring key to add the number of correct and incorrect responses.

15. Final Score: Cover Sheet 15 24 1.Correct = 24 1.Incorrect = 1 1.1 divided by 2 = 0.5 4. Subtract 0.5 from 24 to get 23.5 5.Round up to 24 6. Write 24 at the top of the cover sheet and circle it. 24 1 Adjusted Score = Correct minus (Incorrect divided by 2 )

16. Daze Review When do you start the timer? After you say Begin When do you stop the timer? After 3 minutes How do you score a correct response? Leave it circled How do you score an incorrect response? Put a slash (/) through the word What is the final score? The Adjusted Score, which is the number of correct responses – (the number of incorrect responses divided by 2) 16

17. Daze Summary Start timer after you say Begin CorrectIncorrect (1 point for each correctly circled word) Slash (0 points) Circles the correct wordCircles the incorrect word Circles multiple words No response Response is unclear Timing: Continuous for 3 minutes Reminders: Remember to circle the word in each box that makes the most sense in the story. Remember to read the story silently. Just do your best. 17