DIBELS Strategies

(From Ive DIBELd, Now What?)

Letter Naming Fluency (p. 176-185)
8.1, 8.2, 8.3 Alphabet Song
8.4, 8.5, 8.8, 8.9 Alphabet Arc
8.6, 8.7 Matching Letters Game,
8.7 Matching Upper and Lower case letters
8.11 Flash Cards
8.12 Closer to Z
8.13 Missing Letter Decks

Initial Sound Fluency/

Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (p. 194-212)
9.2 Clap Words in sentence,
9.3 Word Chairs (Separating Words or Sounds in words)
9.4 Clap Snap or Tap
9.5 Break It In Half
9.7 Rhyming Picture Sort
9.9 Rhyme Away Story
9.10 Oops! Wrong Rhyme
9.11 Stand-Up Rhyme Time
9.12 Say-It Take It
9.13 Isolate That Sound
9.14 All Aboard
9.15 Saying Silly Sentences
9.16 Wheres That Sound?
9.17 Thumbs Up
9.19 Picture Card Sort
9.20 Sort Objectives into Piles
9.21 Turtle Talk
9.23
Tap and Sweep
9.27
Lets Count Sounds
9.28
Deleting A Sound
9.30, 9.31 Making Words-----Letter/Sound Boxes using manipulatives

Nonsense Word Fluency (p. 221-238)

10.1, 10.2 Letter/Sound Flash CardsTimed and Untimed
10.3 Fill in the Initial Letter
10.4 Beach Ball Beginning Sounds
10.6 Scavenger Hunt
10.7 Touch and Say
10.8 Detective Game with Real and Nonsense Word Cards
10.9 Card Sort with Real and Nonsense Words
10.10 Timed Reading of Word Lists
10.11 Three Sound Word Deck
10.12 Letter/Sound Boxes with Pictures
10.14 Word Chains with magnetic letters
10.15 Say and Write

Oral Reading Fluency (p. 253-256)

11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4

Repeated Oral Readings--Readers Theater

Partner Reading
Audiotaped Stories
Echo Reading

Retell Fluency (p. 274-280)

13.1 K-W-L Chart
13.2 Make Predictions
13.3 Story Web
13.4 Green, Yellow, and Red Question Cards
13.5 Comprehension Bookmarks
13.6 Questioning the Author
13.7 Make a Movie
13.8 Compare and Contrast with a Venn diagram
13.9 Cause and Effect
13.10 Sequencing Events

Word Use Fluency (p. 263-268)

12.2 The Colors and Shapes of Language,
12.4 Comparing 2-3 similar objects with a chart or Venn diagram
12.5
Human Word Web
12.6
Scaling Antonym Pairs