BREAKING NEWS

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BREAKING NEWS
The DIBELS have moved to Sevier County.
OFFICIAL SMOKY MTN WELCOME CENTER
Official Welcome Center 2 miles
They came for vacation. Their car broke down,
and now ... they are here to stay.
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Who are they? What are they? What do we do with
them?
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Who are the DIBELS?
Lets seewe have six kids, four dogs, his
mother, Uncle Joe oh, and Aunt Mildred might
be moving down with her five kids in
August right before school starts.
Actually, the DIBELS are...
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills
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According to NCLB

• Schools must apply .
• (A) rigorous, systematic, and objective
  procedures to obtain valid knowledge relevant to
  reading development, reading instruction, and
  reading difficultiesand
• (B) research that
• (i) employs systematic, empirical methods
  that draw on observation or experiment
• (ii) involves rigorous data analyses
• that are adequate to test the stated
• hypotheses and justify the general
• conclusions drawn

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What Do DIBELS Do?
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Eat? Sleep? Go to

• DIBELS are brief fluency measures of critical
  early literacy skills used to
• Identify students at risk EARLY!
• Evaluate effectiveness of instruction

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Advantages of DIBELS

• DIBELS identify
• who needs help
• what goals should be attained as a result of the
  instruction given
• whether the instruction is effective week to week

What can we learn from these assessments?

• Information from progress monitoring
• Are the children actually learning what I
• am teaching?
• Is my intervention strong enough to place
• the children on a growth trajectory that
• ends in grade level performance by the
• end of the year?

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Basic Rationale
Data from many thousands of students has shown
that how children perform on certain index
skills is very predictive of whether they will be
reading on grade level by third grade.
These areas of skills and knowledge are
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There are 5 Critical Components of effective
early reading instruction.

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension Strategies

Identify words accurately and automatically
Constructing meaning once words are identified
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A Closer Look!
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Kindergarten Assessment Schedule
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1st Grade Assessment Schedule
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2nd 3rd Grade Assessment Schedule
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DIBELS Administration Schedule

• Administer benchmark measures as indicated.
• Monitor progress every week.

DIBELS Benchmark Expectations
DIBELS benchmarks represent minimal levels of
satisfactory progress for the lowest achieving
students.
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Basic Guidelines

• Deliver instructions verbatim.
• Conceal stopwatch and score sheets.
• Review specific rules.
• Encourage children BETWEEN measures, NOT DURING.
• Tell children to do their best, not race.

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Letter Naming Fluency
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Did we learn that in school?
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
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Nonsense Word Fluency
Tat? Mibgus? Maft?
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Oral Reading Fluency
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Retell Fluency
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For additional information and materials go to
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http//dibels.uoregon.edu/
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Questions???