I sympathize with the reading first school/Dibels. Our pyschologist has been pushing Dibels for the last year. As a reading specialist, I can see some value to them, but our population seems to need more comprehension strategies than fluency work. Case in point- I service two kids who score low risk on Dibels, read mostly fluently, yet one is a fifth grader who cannot score better than 3rd grade on the QRI, and another is a 4th grader who was recently classified language impaired. Some students fluency on the Dibels is inflated because it is very short...the retetelling is just that-the words from the story. Real reading and discussion takes more. <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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