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Appendix IVDIBELSIntervention Activities for NonsenseWord Fluency• Use magnetic letters. Form 3-letter nonsensewords — read the words• Letter Flip – Create three stacks of letters oncards:— stack 1 – consonants— stack 2 – vowels— stack 3 – consonantsBlend the sounds• Word chain – A word chain uses words that differfrom each other by soundIntervention Activities for Oral Reading Fluency• Repeated oral readings of the same text• Partner reading• Audiotaped stories• Echo readingIntervention Activities for Retell Fluency• Write predictions about the story• Make a bookmark about the story• Give main idea and supporting detailsIntervention Activities for Word Use Fluency• Play Guess the Word• Talk about a picture• CharadesDIBELS Content of Measures1. Initial Sound Fluency (Kindergarten)• measure the child’s ability to identify, isolate,and pronounce the first sounds of an orallypresented word• takes about three minutes to administer2. Letter Naming Fluency (Kindergarten toGrade 1)• measure the child’s ability to name as manyletters as they can, uppercase and lowercaserandomly mixed, within one minute3. Phoneme Segmentation Fluency(Mid-Kindergarten – End Grade 1)• measures phoneme awareness by asking childto say the individual sounds that make up aword• takes about two minutes to administer4. Nonsense Words Fluency(Mid-Kindergarten – Beginning Grade 2)• measures the ability to link letters with sounds(knows the alphabetic principle and uses thatknowledge to decode three-letter syllables thatalone are nonsense words)• takes about two minutes to administer5. Oral Reading Fluency(Mid-Grade 1 to Grade 3)• measures accuracy and speed in oral readingof graded passage• students read each of three passages aloud forone minute• the median score is used6. Oral Retelling Fluency(Mid-Grade 1 to Grade 3)• measures the comprehension of the passageread orally• students retell as much as they can in oneminute7. Word Use Fluency(Fall of Kindergarten through Grade 3)• measures vocabulary knowledge andexpressive language• score is the number of words used correctly inone minuteBUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOME: STORIES OF SUCCESS FROM LAWRENCE COUNTY, TENNESSEE20
Reasearch Supports• Reading problems can be prevented in mostchildren• Reading problems can be detected inkindergarten and early first grade• Children with problems do not spontaneously getover them; they need to be taught how to readDIBELS can measure critical foundations forreading that can be directly taught. We can catchchildren before they fail and intervene successfully;children should not have to fail before they come toour attention and receive preventative instruction.DIBELS is a set of assessments that will predicthow well children are likely to be doing in readingcomprehension by the end of third grade. It willhelp teachers locate, monitor, and intervene withat-risk students.Intervention Activities for Initial Sound Fluency• Flash cards – give beginning sound on each card• Cut out pictures from magazines and glue next toa given letter• Sort pictures that contain the same sound• Sort objects that contain the same sound• Sing “Old MacDonald,” give the beginning soundfor all the animals named in the songIntervention Activities for PhonemeSegmentation Fluency• Clap, snap, or tap the sounds in each word• Isolate the sound – tell the beginning, middle,and end sounds in a given word• Tap the sounds in a word• Head, Waist, and Toes – the child touches hishead for beginning sound, waist for middlesound, and toes for ending sound in a word• Say-It-and-Move-It – The child moves a pictureor object along an arrow as they sound out theword• Count the sounds in a wordDIBELSDynamicIndicatorsBasicEarlyLiteracyIntervention Activities for Letter NamingFluency• Singing the alphabet with songs• Match letter shapes to letter names• Use magnetic letters to match uppercase tolowercase letters• Use letter flash cards• Use inflatable vinyl ball with letters written, atrandom, on the ball• Use foam dice containing letters of the alphabetThrow and let child identify letters• String beads with letters written on the beadsBUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOME: STORIES OF SUCCESS FROM LAWRENCE COUNTY, TENNESSEE21
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