Dibels Practice
You will find resources on this page to help you practice the skills tested during the dibels assessment.
LNF- Letter Name Fluency
Children need to look at the letters in random order, and mixed up with capitals and lower case letters, and identify them as quickly as possible. To practice this, I made a power point presentation of the alphabet in random order, and have the children try to name the letters as I click through them as quickly as possible.
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Letter Naming Fluency Interventions
Letter Naming Freebies- place students in small groups (break out rooms) and have them take turns reading the letters out loud until your timer goes off. They mark their total score (maybe partner can help with this as well as LC) on a graph that shows progress of the week. They then switch and the other partner can go. The teacher can move into the different rooms to see progress and hear the letters being read out loud. This could be incorporated into lessons so that it becomes more of a ritual for the students and letter names are memorized.
FSF- First Sound Fluency
Children listen to a word and give the first sound that they hear in it. This includes words that begin with digraphs (sh, ch, wh, th) and consonant blends (words like “spin,” “flight,” and “nest”). Children are NOT to be penalized for speech problems or other articulation delays, such as making the /w/ sound in place of the /l/ sound.
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Phoneme Segmentation Fluency- PSF
Children listen to a word and must give “all of the sounds that they hear in a word.” These words include digraphs (sh, ch, wh, th), diphthongs (ou, ow, ay, oy, etc.), r-controlled vowels (words like “card” or “park,”) and words with blends (words like “spin,” “flight,” and “nest”).
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Tricks to help read 3 letter words
Nonsense Word Fluency- NWF
The children are given some nonsensical consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words (such as “mup”) and some vowel-consonant (VC) words to read (such as “uv”), and they are supposed to try to read them without first saying the sound of each letter aloud. If they can read the word fluently, without stopping to say the letter sounds and blend it aloud, then they are given a point for Whole Words Read (WWR). They are also given a point for each of the Correct Letter Sounds (CLS) in each word. If the child cannot read any of the nonsense words, then he can still get points for the correct letter sounds. It is important to understand that the child is actually penalized for giving each letter sound aloud before sounding out the word! They get no credit for having read the word at all if they give each letter sound and blend it together out loud before giving the word.
Resources
Gone Fishin'
LNF- Letter Name Fluency
Children need to look at the letters in random order, and mixed up with capitals and lower case letters, and identify them as quickly as possible. To practice this, I made a power point presentation of the alphabet in random order, and have the children try to name the letters as I click through them as quickly as possible.
Resources
Letter Naming Fluency Interventions
Letter Naming Freebies- place students in small groups (break out rooms) and have them take turns reading the letters out loud until your timer goes off. They mark their total score (maybe partner can help with this as well as LC) on a graph that shows progress of the week. They then switch and the other partner can go. The teacher can move into the different rooms to see progress and hear the letters being read out loud. This could be incorporated into lessons so that it becomes more of a ritual for the students and letter names are memorized.
FSF- First Sound Fluency
Children listen to a word and give the first sound that they hear in it. This includes words that begin with digraphs (sh, ch, wh, th) and consonant blends (words like “spin,” “flight,” and “nest”). Children are NOT to be penalized for speech problems or other articulation delays, such as making the /w/ sound in place of the /l/ sound.
Resources
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency- PSF
Children listen to a word and must give “all of the sounds that they hear in a word.” These words include digraphs (sh, ch, wh, th), diphthongs (ou, ow, ay, oy, etc.), r-controlled vowels (words like “card” or “park,”) and words with blends (words like “spin,” “flight,” and “nest”).
Resources
Tricks to help read 3 letter words
Nonsense Word Fluency- NWF
The children are given some nonsensical consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words (such as “mup”) and some vowel-consonant (VC) words to read (such as “uv”), and they are supposed to try to read them without first saying the sound of each letter aloud. If they can read the word fluently, without stopping to say the letter sounds and blend it aloud, then they are given a point for Whole Words Read (WWR). They are also given a point for each of the Correct Letter Sounds (CLS) in each word. If the child cannot read any of the nonsense words, then he can still get points for the correct letter sounds. It is important to understand that the child is actually penalized for giving each letter sound aloud before sounding out the word! They get no credit for having read the word at all if they give each letter sound and blend it together out loud before giving the word.
Resources
Gone Fishin'
Additional Resources
Helping Kids Conquer Dibels
Helping Kids Conquer Dibels