Screening and Assessment - Reading Rockets
Choosing a diagnostic or progress monitoring test depends on the age, grade, and the specific needs of the student to determine which reading skills to assess. Work with your school’s …
Fluency Norms Chart (2017 Update) - Reading Rockets
In 2017, Hasbrouck and Tindal published an Update of Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Norms , compiled from three widely-used and commercially available ORF assessments (DIBELS , …
Should We Test Reading or DIBELS? - Reading Rockets
Teacher question I teach first-grade and this year I switched schools. In my previous school, we tested our students with DIBELS The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills …
Student Progress Monitoring: What This Means for Your Child
Progress monitoring can give you and your child’s teacher information that can help your child learn more and learn faster, and help you make better decisions about the type of instruction …
Differentiation Done Right: How “Walk to Read” Works
Monitoring Progress For students in fluency interventions or book clubs, we monitor progress with Oral Reading Fluency (e.g., DIBELS The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills …
Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines ...
If the progress-monitoring measures indicate that the first-grade students receiving instruction in phonological awareness lag behind their peers in reading or spelling, the teacher may choose …
Monitoring Student Progress - Reading Rockets
Table 3 provides recommendations (based on research compilations) for target areas for early screening and progress monitoring. For grades K-1, letter naming fluency and phoneme …
Integrating Student Progress Monitoring (SPM) into Your …
Is your school planning to implement student progress monitoring (SPM)? Are you thinking of using it in your classroom? If so, consider a number of factors to make SPM an integral part of …
Fact Sheet: Benefits of Curriculum-Based Measurement
The best-known method of student progress monitoring — Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) — also enables teachers to select the teaching methods that work best with the …
Understanding and Assessing Fluency - Reading Rockets
To determine if the student’s score is on target, the examiner compares it to the oral reading fluency norms (see Screening, Diagnosing, and Progress Monitoring: The Details).