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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like my kid just isn't the best at DIBELS.

He has been struggling but this year he has made huge improves. Like he went from reading 30 WPM at the second grade level to reading 140 WPM at the 4th grade level (he is in 3rd). He used to refuse to read books and is now reading chapter books and stupid DIBELS is saying he is further behind than he was at the beginning of the year (needs strategic help vs core, but I guess was only off by one point). The kid got 100% on his writing assessment and is well into the range of well prepared for the VGA.

So I am a bit over DIBELS right now. It just made me feel like all the progress he made for the year meant nothing! [/quote]

DIBELS isn't a test of intelligence. When used correctly, it is supposed to pick up on learning disabilities including dyslexia. If your kid is scoring well on writing assessments but is testing behind on any of the individual DIBELS categories (especially oral reading), it could be a flag for dyslexia. APS is really bad at identifying dyslexia in the 2e kids in elementary school. Our kid was never flagged in K-5, but was just diagnosed in 7th grade when she struggled with phonemic awareness in her foreign language class.  I asked APS to go back and pull her K-5 DIBELS and she consistently tested slightly below average on the oral reading metrics, but because she was testing so high above average in the written reading comprehension part of DIBELS, they just looked at her overall average and passed her as reaching goal. Her dyslexia manifests as an encoding challenge more than a decoding challenge, but APS tends to miss those nuances because they only focus on the overall score. [/quote]

We had him tested privately because of DIBELS in 2nd grade, but private testing shows no evidence of dyslexia. He also has a reading tutor who screened him, but she saw no evidence of dyslexia either. He has been pretty low (like well below/below) on DIBELS for a while (hence the tutor/private testing) but his oral reading fluency has improved immensely after tutoring (according to his tutor and his teacher) it just isn't being reflected in DIBELS. I mean maybe everyone has missed it. He does have ADHD and is getting OG tutoring so we are doing everything we need to for dyslexia whether or not he has it.

I also just think my kid HATES oral assessments. When they did the old PALS test we were told he doesn't know the alphabet (which he clearly knew, he just hates answering them) and DIBELS doesn't given any results for effort. [/quote]

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