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RASCAL FAMILIES!
Your child will be taking the DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) Assessment today, Thursday, May 30th. Following is a description of each subtest. The results will be sent home with your child's report card on the last day of school.
Letter Naming Fluency
(LNF)
On
the LNF assessment, your child is
shown a page of random letters and asked to name the letters. The number of letters your child names
correctly in one minute is counted. The
ability to name letters is a strong predictor of later reading
achievement. The Benchmark Goal is 62 letters
per minute at the end of the kindergarten year.
Phoneme Segmentation
Fluency (PSF)
Understanding
that spoken words can be broken down into individual sounds and then blended
back together to form a word is an important skill in learning to read and write. On the PSF
assessment, your child is given a spoken word and asked to say each sound in
the word: “Tell me the sounds in the
word mop. “Child: “/m/ /o/ /p/”. The Benchmark
Goal is 40 sounds per
minute at the end of the kindergarten year.
Nonsense Word Fluency
(NWF)
Children
with strong phonics skills know the sounds of letters and are able to blend
them together to form words. On the NWF assessment, your child is shown a
“nonsense word” containing 2 or 3 letters (e.g.
bim, ob) and asked to read the word.
Your child is given credit for each correct sound (Correct Letter
Sound – CLS). Nonsense words are
used so that the teacher knows your child is connecting the sound to the letter
rather than recognizing the word by sight.
The Benchmark Goal is 28 sounds per minute at the end
of the kindergarten year.
Measure of Academic Progress (MAP)
The kinders are scheduled to take the NWEA (MAP) Test on Monday and Tuesday in Math ~ Thursday and Friday in Reading. What is the MAP/NWEA Assessment? NWEA’s computerized adaptive tests are called
Measure of Academic Progress, or MAP. When taking a MAP test, the difficulty of
each question is based on how well a student answers all the previous
questions. As the students answer
correctly, questions become more difficult.
If the student answers incorrectly, the questions become easier. The final score is an estimate of the
student’s achievement level.
This assessment itself is unique in that it adapts to the student's ability, accurately measuring what a child knows and needs to learn. In addition, MAP tests measure academic growth over time. This is the third time the NWEA has been administered this year. Results will be sent home on the last day of school with your child's report card. The NWEA Assessment will continue every year throughout each grade level so that you’ll be able to compare your child’s progress with the progress of the previous year.
SCORE Rascals!!
June A. Rich
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