Week 9 Assignment

What is DIBELS?

DIBELS is the evaluation of the students early literary skills during the grades K-6^th grade. When administering DIBELS teachers utilize a benchmark to ensure students are testing at level or close to grade level. Based on a student’s scoring, teachers are able to assign additional instruction and resources for students early in their academic career to make adjustments. During assessments, teachers obtain a Progress Monitoring Report, which highlights student’s achievement through assessments that highlights performance within phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary.

ISF

Initial Sound Fluency is defined as the administered measure of a student’s ability to recognize the initial sound in an orally present word. For example, present students with a set of word and asking them to identify which word would have a particular sound (which word begins with c (dog, boy, car)? This assessment typically takes place during kindergarten and the facilitator factors time and score to assessment level.  

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate a sound. When learning how to blend words, teachers typically use continuous sounds to increase student’s knowledge of sound awareness. Phonemic awareness is assessed during Kindergarten and 1^st grade. Typically assessed three times a year and if student is struggling, they are monitored at least 1 to 2 times a month.

Alphabetic Principal

Alphabetic Principal is broken into two categories, alphabetic understanding and phonological reading. Alphabetic understanding is concept of words are composed of letters that represent sounds. Phonological reading is the relationship amongst letters and sounds (regular reading, irregular reading and advance learning analysis).

Q15 vs DIBELS 

Q15 is the assessment of a student's reading level based on the review of a word list, passage and comprehension questions. By utilizing Q15, you are able to determine student's reading level with relations to their sound awareness and testing to determine students comprehension through discussion questions. DIBELS is an assessment which provides an in-depth review of students reading though the testing of sound awareness, blending of words and determining the concept of words and their sounds. Teachers may implement DIBELS testing by using rhyming, splitting and blending.