Nonsense Word Fluency: What and Why

Questions about Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)?  We have answers in today's video!

NWF is an assessment we use to see how well students are applying their phonics blending or decoding skills.  We will help you understand NWF so you can use it as a meaningful and valuable assessment in your classroom.

K-1 Dibels Progress Monitoring

Kindergarten and 1st grade teachers, this download is everything you'll need to effectively use Dibels progress monitoring! Administration and reading coaches, this is a great pack to use for professional development to help your k-1 teams use Dibels progress monitoring to guide their tiers of instruction. 

Oral Reading Fluency Progress Monitoring

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Using DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency Progress Monitoring is a common question (if not THE most asked question) Angie receives from teachers and administration. This resource is full of  professional development and all the resources you'll need to effectively progress monitor your students' ORF. We hope it clarifies all the misconceptions about DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency as well as allows teachers to use time wisely when assessing reading. We truly want to help teachers work "smarter and not harder"!

We have many predictors of good reading, one strong predictor is Oral Reading Fluency (ORF).  We can use ORF norms to determine where our students should be in terms of speed and accuracy at a given point in time when they are reading grade level text.  You can refer to our ORF file for further information on this and for everything you need to progress monitor on TPT.

We recommend DIBELS as a progress monitor because it is a Valid and Reliable measure and has been since 2001. Why?

1)      It is fast,

2)      Fluency is a great place to see most of the reading components very quickly put into action.  I can see Phonics improve, fluency improve, discuss comprehension or get a quick measure with a retell, and even do a running record on the DIBELS progress monitor score sheet. 

When you are progress monitoring your students, you can see if they are making adequate progress to meet their goals that are determined by their target lines (ambitious and expected). The progress monitoring data points should remain within the two target lines. Download our ORF resource for more information. 

Check out some of our other teaching resources to increase ORF!

• Effective Phonics Instruction
• Sight Words 
• Effective Fluency Instruction through Prosody Elements COMING SOON!