Practical Tips For Spring Kindergarten DIBELS Testing Success
What is DIBELS? DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a set of screening measures designed to guide and target instruction—not to label students. Because the assessed skills are essential components of early reading development, teachers and parents understandably want to support students in demonstrating their best performance.
Here is a quick overview of the key DIBELS measurements that are assessed in Kindergarten.
Key Components of Spring Kindergarten DIBELS
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF): Evaluates the ability to break spoken words into individual sounds (e.g., "dog" = /d/ /ŏ/ /g/).
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF): Measures knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and the ability to blend CVC words by reading pseudo-words (e.g., "sig," "mop").
Letter Naming Fluency (LNF): Assesses the ability to rapidly name upper and lowercase letters.
These skills should be practiced all year long in authentic and playful ways, because — all of these skills are needed to become successful readers. We offer a large variety of research based games and activities that your students will love. And teachers and parents will LOVE their DIBELS results when the Data is in.
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Are you looking for some great games that can be used to teach your students or homeschool students how to segment phonemes with fluency, the essential precursor to decoding? You will love this great packet! Helps with your Dibels scores too!
Games include:
Fingerprint CVC Words
The Big Game
BAM
Boo!
Simon Says Segmenting
Floating Sounds
Ladybug Dance
Santa Gets Dressed
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Description
Alphabet Fluency is the greatest predictor of future reading success according to top researchers and experts such as The Science of Reading. Tests such as Accidence, Dibels, Aims Web, and others depend on that data to predict progress.
These developmentally appropriate fun-filled games with have your students naming letters fluently in no time!
Featuring Six Games
Lambs and Lions
Robot Zinger
Tiptoe Through Tulips
Baking Cookies
The Sky Is Falling
The Hen’s Flapjacks
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Nonsense Words Fluency practice, using fun -- research based games!
Are you preparing your students for the upcoming Dibels, Acadience or other early reading testing? One of the secrets to successful scores are students who have had experience with fluency. These games will help prepare your students for nonsense word fluency NWF.
Practicing nonsense words strengthens decoding skills!
Games include:
Saved By a Knight
Family Camping Trip
Arctic Hunt
Tomorrow’s Weather
Dinosaur Lunch
Top Knight
Abracadabra
Speak Alien Please
Your students will love playing these games!
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