DIBELS

Our class will be taking our second round of the DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) testing at the end of the week. The DIBELS testing measures oral reading skills of students.

Here is how it works. Each student reads three passages for one minute each. While they read I keep track of how many words they read then subract any words that they missed from their total. They are left with a dibels score, which is similar to the words per minute score that is associated with typing.

It is a quick and easy test for the kids to take. It gives us another means to measure how each child is doing in reading along with the Reading Counts program, WKCE testing, and MAPS testing that we use.