In a message dated 5/28/2007 3:32:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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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
I recently completed the DIBELS assessment on all our first grade students -
I'm a Reading Specialist. This year something really stood out for me when I
did the scoring. At first, I thought it was just a fluke, but as I continued
through the three classrooms, a pattern began to emerge. I'm
Linda and all:
I am in a district that also uses DIBELS. DIBELS pros and cons aside, I
have seen a similar drop in the PSF with stronger, first grade readers. My
feeling is that when they have become fluent decoders, they really couldn't be
bothered with phonemic segmentation. It has
I was trying to keep out of this, but there is another reason. Good
readers want to make sense of text. For example when they see the
nonsense syllable mik they are way more likely to try to put in a
word such as milk that makes sense. I'm sorry to keep hammering on
this but the
We use DIBELS as a screener in our board and it is very common to see a drop in
PSF. This is one of those tasks where more is NOT better and that is stressed
at the DIBELS training. The benchmark is 35 and when a students is able to hear
and segment 35 sounds a second that skill is established.
for thought!
Claudine DiMuzio
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Sent: Mon, 28 May 2007 3:31 pm
Subject: [MOSAIC] DIBELS Results
I recently completed the DIBELS assessment on all our first grade students -
I'm
Reading Specialist. This year
