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• 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

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