CASD K-6 Transition Plan from DIBELS to DIBELS Next

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.

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 mClass costly Palm devices becoming outdated Summer/Fall 2011 made the change to VPort for electronic scoring and data storage.

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

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)

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

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

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?

Longitudinal Data- Kindergarten to Grade 4

Longitudinal Data- Kindergarten to Grade 5

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