Student

Assessment
Project
by:Hope Bullard
Who is Sam Smith?
Sam is a second year
Kindergarten student.
He has the kindest heart
and the sweetest spirit. He
is very loving and
affectionate.
His teacher told me that Sam knows his
letters and sounds. Yet he struggles to
remember them.
Sam can read most CVC words.
Sam is quick to guess letters, sounds
and words. The teacher must tell him to
pay attention to the letters because he
does know them.
2
Procedures
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early
Literacy Skills (DIBELS) Next
Grade Level Kindergarten
★ First Sound Fluency (FSF)
★ Letter Naming Fluency (LNF)
★ Phoneme Segmentation (PSF)
★ Nonsense Word Fluency- Correct Letter
Sounds (NWS-CLS)

3
Beginning of the Year
❏ FSF Score - 26 Benchmark - 25
❏ LNF Score - 20
Middle of the Year
❏ FSF - 22 Benchmark - 30
❏ PSF Score - 24 Benchmark - 20
❏ LNF Score - 19
❏ NWF-CLS Score - 11 Benchmark - 17
End of the Year
❏ LNF Score - 27
❏ PSF Score - 20 Benchmark - 40
❏ NWS-CLS - 10 Benchmark - 28

4
Results and Analysis Cont.

Composite Scores
● Beginning of the Year - 45
● Benchmark - 38
● Middle of the Year - 76
● Benchmark - 122
● End of the Year - 58
● Benchmark - 119

5
Strategies Recommended for Target
Area A- Nonsense Word Fluency
➢ Nonsense Word Puzzle. (Fox, 2012)

➢ Shoulder - Elbow - Wrist Blending (Fox, 2012)

➢ Nonsense Word Bucket Game (Sanchez, 2015)

6
Strategies Recommended for Target
Area B- Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
❖ See the Sound/ Visual Phonics
(Cihon, 2008)

❖ Segmenting Cheers (Reading

Rockets, 2017)

7
Conclusion and 2 Take Away
Points
Sam will be Progress
Monitoring weekly to track
his progress.
DIBELS gives teachers the
information to change the
program based on his
strengths and/or
weaknesses. This will help
you as the teacher to
figure out what to do next.
Sam will be in Tier 3 until
his scores come up to the
benchmarks.
DIBELS testing clearly shows
where a student was and is now. I
was surprised to see that his
scores had not improved.
This made me wonder if there
were a plan implemented sooner,
then his scores would probably be
higher.
8
Bibliography
Cihon, T. M., (2008). Using visual phonics as a strategic intervention to increase
literacy behaviors for kindergarten participants at-risk for reading failure.
Retrieved from:
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ847485.pdf

Fox, B. J. (2012). Word identification strategies: building phonics into a classroom

reading program. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.

Reading Rockets, (2017). Blending and segmenting games. Retrieved from:

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/blending_games

Sanchez, A., (2015). Primary possibilities: 10 ways to practice nonsense words for dibels.
Retrieved from:
http://www.primarypossibilities.com/2015/05/10-ways-to-practice-nonsense-words-for.
html