DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a reading fluency assessment that all K-6th grade students will be able to experience within the next week. DIBELS helps the school determine who is meeting basic reading benchmarks and who is At-Risk for reading deficiencies. In kindergarten and first grade the reading assessment looks at letter naming fluency and initial sound fluency. Then 1st and 2nd graders are testing in nonsense word fluency and beginning reading. The 2nd through 6th grade students are tested in their reading fluency and accuracy as well as their retell fluency. It can be a very exhausting process for the those conducting the assessments. However, the students have been doing a fantastic job. I have personally tested many students and have been very impressed with the amount of high quality readers that we have at the school.
Once the results have been entered into our system the school will identify the At-risk readers and provide additional support to increase their skills. The At-risk students will then track their reading progress through the progress monitoring program provided by DIBELS.
We will conduct the DIBELS benchmarks three times per year.
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