Alphabet Soup

As the year progresses, you will have a lot of abbreviations thrown your way.  Some of those are coming home today!  To help you decipher this alphabet soup of letters, let me do some explaining!

DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Learning Skills), is an assessment both you and your child will become very familiar with.  This is a series of tests that we administer 3 times a year (fall, winter, spring), from Kindergarten through 2nd grade.  Most of these tests are a timed test requiring your child to complete as many tasks as they can in 1 minute.    Kindergarten took 3 tests:

• LNF:  (Letter Naming Fluency)  When given letters in a mixed up order, the number of letters they name in 1 minute
• FSF:  (First-Sound Fluency)  When given a word, the number of times they correctly state the first sound in 1 minute
• TRC:  (Text Reading Comprehension)  This is a non-timed test that has your child read books to show their ability to use, maneuver, and read books.

Your child is coming home today with a sheet that shows you their scores for these 3 tests.  Each test shows you what your child scored, and where they should have scored.  Our goal is for your child's "running man" icon to be somewhere in the GREEN range.  

As you look over these scores and data, feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns!