DIBELS

DIBELS  Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills

DIBELS is an assessment that is given at Springville and most schools in Alabama. This assessment is given three times each school year, August, January, and May. These assessment are short one minute tests that help us to see what skills we as your child's teacher need to focus on.

The assessments that are given are Initial Sound Fluency, Letter Naming Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency, and Nonsense Word Fluency. Not all of these are given each time

Watch These Examples of Each of the Assessments!
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=In August the following are given: Initial Sound Fluency and Letter Naming Fluency. =

Initial Sound Fluency
The assessment asks questions about the beginning sounds of pictures.The benchmark or on grade level score for this assessment is 8. This is an example of how the Initial Sound Fluency assesment is given.

Letter Naming Fluency
This assessment gives students a page of letters both upper and lowercase. The letters are in no particular order. The student has one minute to name as many of the letters as possible. The benchmark or on grade level score for this assessment is 8.

==In January the following are given: Initial Sound Fluency, Letter Naming Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency, & Nonsense Word Fluency .==

Initial Sound Fluency
Benchmark score is 25.

Letter Naming Fluency
Benchmark score is 27.

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
During this assessment the teacher gives the student a word and the student must segment (tell the sounds) that are in the word. Such as mop...the student would say /m/ /o/ /p/ (saying the letter sounds when in //). Benchmark score is 18.

Nonsense Word Fluency
This assessment the student is provided with a page that has "nonsense" or made up words on it. The student must produce the sounds of each letter or read the words. Example words are: zub lut jik. Benchmark score is 13.

Letter Naming Fluency
Benchmark is 40.

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
Benchmark is 35.

Nonsense Word Fluency
Benchmark is 25.