Last week all Plymouth elementary students in grades K, 1, 2, and 3 were given the DIBELS assessments. DIBELS is an acronym for the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills. The assessments consist of a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills.
The measures were developed upon the essential early literacy domains discussed in both the National Reading Panel (2000) and National Research Council (1998) reports to assess student development of phonological awareness, alphabetic understanding, and automaticity and fluency with the code. Each measure has been thoroughly researched and demonstrated to be reliable and valid indicators of early literacy development and predictive of later reading proficiency to aid in the early identification of students who are not progressing as expected. When used as recommended, the results can be used to evaluate individual student development as well as provide grade-level feedback toward validated instructional objectives.
In the next few weeks parents will receive a letter explaining how their child performed on the assessment. More importantly they will receive the school’s plans to meet the individual student needs.
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