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What skills do the assessments measure?

April 26, 2017assessments measure Skills

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What skills do the assessments measure?

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The DIBELS measures assess the 5 Big Ideas in Beginning Reading: Phonemic Awareness is measured by Initial Sounds Fluency (ISF) and Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) Alphabetic Principle is measured by Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) Accuracy & Fluency with connected Text is measured by Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Vocabulary is measured by Word Use Fluency (WUF is still under development) Comprehension is measured by ORF and Retell Fluency (RTF) For more information on the 5 Big Ideas, see our Big Ideas in Beginning Reading website.