What school-wide forms of assessments are used?

• Running Records
• DIBELS

 

 Running Records

• What are running records?

Running records are a form of assessment where teachers are able to listen to students reading and record their reading behaviors.  The students are reading unfamiliar books so that we have a better idea of what strategies the child is using.  This helps guide our instruction and allows the classroom teacher to make appropriate book choices.

• How Often?

Running records are administered 3-4 times a year.  Your child may not be assessed each time depending on his/her reading level.

• Who?

The Title I reading teachers along with the classroom teachers are responsible for administering the running record assessments to all students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

 

DIBELS

DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a standardized test to measure a student’s early literacy skills.  The test is given individually three times during the year.  These are short, one minute tests that monitor your child’s reading skills. 

DIBELS includes:

         Letter Naming Fluency  measures how many letters your child can identify in one minute.

• First Sound Fluency  measures how well your child can identify initial sound in words.
• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency  measures how well your child can say the individual sounds in a given word.

 

• Nonsense Word Fluency  measures how well your child can read nonsense words that follow the  phonemic pattern of actual words.

 

• Oral Reading Fluency measures how many words your child can read in a minute.  Students are given a paragraph to read.