Students in kindergarten and first grade at Parkway Elementary School in the East Meadow Union Free School District are in the process of the second round of taking the DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) benchmark assessment test.
DIBELS, an early intervention screening program, is administered three times a year -- in September, January, and June. It allows teachers to monitor the progress of students’ early literacy development, thereby identifying students in need of additional support so that they can modify teaching strategies or differentiate instruction.
The DIBELS measures are specifically designed to assess three of the “Five Big Ideas” of early literacy: phonological awareness, alphabetic principle, and fluency with connected text.
Through a team approach by intervention, ESL, reading, and classroom teachers, data is taken and graphed. The teachers then review the data as a team to determine how a student’s reading development is progressing, and whether that student is on the path to becoming a proficient and fluent reader or is in need of intervention.
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