Literacy Assessments
i-Ready
i-Ready is an online program that will help us determine your child’s strengths and areas for growth, personalize their learning, and monitor their progress throughout the school year. i-Ready allows us to meet your child where they are and provides us with data to inform instruction.
The i-Ready Diagnostic is an adaptive assessment that adjusts its questions based on student responses. Each item a student receives is based on their answer to the previous question. For example, a series of correct answers will result in slightly harder questions, while a series of incorrect answers will yield slightly easier ones. The purpose of this is not to give your child a score or grade but to determine how to best support their learning.
i-Ready Instruction provides students with lessons based on their individual strengths and areas for growth. These lessons are interactive and provide strategic supports to keep your child engaged as they learn.
To learn more about this assessment and online learning, see this document:
DIBELS
DIBELS-8 stands for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills.
DIBELS-8 assesses the critical skills necessary for successful beginning reading including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
These assessments will be given three times each year (fall, winter, and spring). Each of the DIBELS tests only takes about one minute to complete. DIBELS tests are “indicators” of the student’s overall reading status, and are not intended to be in-depth or comprehensive measures of reading. Just like using a thermometer to take your child’s temperature, which provides a quick indicator of your child’s general health, these quick DIBELS tests provide teachers with information about your child’s reading health and how well he or she is progressing on a particular early reading skill. This data helps to guide our instruction and make decisions that are in the best interest of our students.
To learn more about these assessments, see this document: https://dibels.amplify.com/docs/DIBELS_Tips_for_Families.pdf