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Re: Dibels reading assess.
Posted by a reading teacher on 5/30/07

    On 11/02/06, Sandi wrote:
    The point that students never need to read "nonsense" words is only
    > partially true. Any word unknown to a student may be nonsense to him/her.
    > That's the point of decoding. It's impossible to learn every word in the
    > dictionary, but our brains can learn patterns, thereby helping us decode those
    > unknown or "nonsense" words. DIBELS isn't just encouraging kids to read mumbo-
    > jumbo, but nonsense words are the only true way to know if a word has been
    > decoded or become a part of the sight vocabulary. I also believe when students
    > start decoding multisyllabic words, these early DIBELS skills will serve them
    > well.

    It would help if the "nonsense" words didn't sound like real words. One example, 'sok'. They know
    enough to know this doesn't sound like nonsense and it doesn't look right.
    If we taught more of the Making Words and Words Their Way kinds of things the kids would have what is
    necessary to decode those big words.

    Perhaps the nonsense word portion would be more appropriate for upper grade kids.

    It's also a problem when the kids have begun to learn about long vowels. They want to just use long
    vowel sounds (and yes, I know they have to learn the pattern), and new learning is what they want to try
    first. If you only have one minute to 'read' 24 to 50 'words' (depending on what time of year), you don't
    really have time to make sure it's correct and you have no way to make sure it makes sense.

    To me, this test doesn't make sense.

     
     

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