In a message dated 5/28/2007 3:32:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our end-of-year DIBELS showed that across the three first grade classrooms, 62% of the students had a drop in their Phoneme Segmentation Fluency. Knowing these students personally, I was surprised at first but then realized that these very students were among the strongest readers. Within this same 62% who droped in PSF, 49% had gains in the Oral Reading Fluency section. And, while I'm not putting in a plug for DIBELS (I think it is quite invalid, especially based on how we are instructing our students), I was surprised at these results. Probably because readers see chunks and blends as chunks and blends. They get more points on dibels for segmenting these. For example, /c/l/a/p/ will get more points on DIBELS than /cl/ap/ which is how I want my children to see the word. Your teachers are teaching children to be good readers rather than good DIBELS testers. Good for them! Jane in SC :-) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
