1. DIBELS Overview
First and Second Grade

2. What is DIBELS??
First and Second Grade Assessments
DIBELS Report
What can parents do at home?

3. 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

4. First Grade Assessments
Letter Naming Fluency (LNF)
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF)
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
Oral Retelling Fluency

5. Second Grade Assessments
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
Oral Retelling Fluency

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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’.

9. Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
Used to measure accuracy and speed in oral reading of graded passages
Timed reading of 3 different passages
Errors are words omitted or substituted, or hesitations of more than 3 seconds.

10. Oral Retelling Fluency
Asks children to tell as much as they can about what they just read
Score is number of words the child uses to retell the story within one minute.

11. DIBELS Report

13. What can parents do at home?
Read, read, read, read…..to and with your child.
Have them retell what you or he/she just read.
Ask questions about what was read.
Practice sight word list sent home by teacher
Practice nonsense word list
100 Juicy Words List