Essential Question:

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Essential Question Is the DIBELS a useful
tool for screening and progress monitoring of
basic early literacy skills?
Judy Moody Differentiation Project April 29, 2006
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• The DIBELS targets fluency with four basic skills
  that contribute significantly to childs success
  when beginning to read
• isolating the beginning sound (phoneme) of a
  word
• teasing out the beginning, middle and ending
  sounds of words
• mastering the Alphabetic Principleletters
  represent speech sounds and strings of
  sounds are blended into word units, and
• oral reading rate.

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Initial Sounds Fluency
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VideoISF.mov Clips\ISF.mov
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Initial Sounds Fluency
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Letter Naming Fluency
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Video LNF.movClips\LNF.mov
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Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
Video CliPSF.movpPSF.movs\PSF.mov
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Nonsense Word Fluency
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Video Clips\NNWF.movWF.mov
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Oral Reading Fluency
VideORFEstablishedReader.movo Clips\ORFEstablished
Reader.mov
Handouts
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• Learning Targets
• Teachers become familiar with the DIBELS and the
  skills it measures
• Teachers consider and refine current assessment
  and instructional practices

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What is the impact of test administration on
students? On teachers?
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Do the measures identify the same students and
different kids? How does the data compare with
other early literacy data we collect?
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Do the measures identify the same students and
different kids? How does the data compare with
other early literacy data we collect?
Phon. Proc. Assessment PLSS / Moody Phon.
Proc. Monitoring Clay Observational Survey
Letter Identification Word Test Concepts
About Print Writing Vocabulary Dictation
Task Running Record
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One Kindergartener and one first grader who
scored small risk and low risk on all other
subtests, scored at risk on Letter Naming
Fluency. Four second graders who scored
low risk or small risk on Oral Reading and whom
teachers reported as average readers, scored
deficit on Non-word Fluency.
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Box Plots How spread out is the group? How much
did the whole group move?
Kindergarten
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First Grade
Second Grade
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How do teachers respond to this information?
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How can many sources of information be viewed
simultaneously?
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• Learning Targets
• Teachers become familiar with the DIBELS and the
  skills it measures
• Teachers consider and refine current assessment
  and instructional practices
• Evidence of Success
• Early literacy conversations contain more
  references to phonemic awareness and letter
  naming fluency
• Drafts exist for follow-up monitoring of skills
  measured in K screening and Observational Survey
  which are easier to access

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