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The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills. The measures were developed upon the essential early literacy domains discussed in both the National Reading Panel (2000) and National Research Council (1998) reports to assess student development of phonological awareness, alphabetic understanding, and automaticity and fluency with the code. Each measure has been thoroughly researched and demonstrated to be reliable and valid indicators of early literacy development and predictive of later reading proficiency to aid in the early identification of students who are not progressing as expected. When used as recommended, the results can be used to evaluate individual student development as well as provide grade-level feedback toward validated instructional objectives.
At the DIBELS website, educators can download DIBELS measures for use in the classroom; learn how to administer the individual measures; explore strategies for schoolwide DIBELS data collection; sign up for the DIBELS data system; enter student data directly on the website; generate, download, and print out class list, school and district reports of DIBELS performance data; and learn how to interpret instructional recommendations found on the reports.
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading (BIBR) gives educators and administrators a valuable new educational resource. The BIBR website elucidates on the five Big Ideas (phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text, vocabulary, and comprehension) which the DIBELS measures were designed to assess. The BIBR website has four major sections, Big Ideas, Assessment, Instruction, and Logistics. The Big Ideas section gives information about each Big Idea, including what it is, why it is important, what programs will teach it, what skills students should know, what teachers should know, and what research has been done. The Assessment section explains how to assess students using the DIBELS measures. The Instruction section defines best principles and practices that should be used when teaching each Big Idea. The Instruction section also has numerous video clips which show teachers engaged in instruction which exemplifies one or more of the Big Ideas. The final section of the BIBR website is Logistics, which uses a school-wide model to show educators how to implement instructional and assessment practices in schools.
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