Can we use old progress monitoring probes for practice?
No, you should never practice the DIBELS measures with your students, even probes that they won’t be tested on for real. You want to keep a clear distinction between “teaching time” and “testing time.” You should teach your students reading and pre-reading skills, but you would never practice the DIBELS measures. For information on how to teach the skills that DIBELS assesses, see our Big Ideas in Beginning Reading website.
