DIBELS:
Second Grade Guidelines

2^nd Grade

Name of DIBELS Test

Your Child’s Score

Benchmark Score

Benchmark Goal for December

Nonsense Word

Fluency

Not Given

Oral Reading

Fluency

What does this mean? Students who are at benchmark scores or above are on target for grade level material. They need continued reading practice at night on a regular basis, and guided instruction in the classroom. Your child’s teacher has committed to do this. Students who are below benchmark need additional reading time. The regular classroom teacher has already committed to giving this child additional reading instruction during the school day. The more time the parent/guardian can work on reading skills daily, the better reader the child will become.

What can I do at home to help my child excel?

Nonsense

Word

Fluency

1. Have students practice reading small words like cat, dog, and sit.

2. Ask students to tell you what letter starts or ends a word.

3. Have students tell you words that rhyme. Ex. sit, bit, fit,

4. Have students tell you other words that start or end the same as another word. Ex. “Can” starts the same as “cookie,” and ends the same as “oven.”

Oral

Reading

Fluency

1. Record students reading and have them listen to it.

2. Make or get recordings of favorite books on tape and let your child listen to them.

3. Have your child read one page of a book and figure out each word on that page by sounding it out. He should reread those pages at least 2 more times. When we encounter difficult words often, the opportunity to master a word is greater.

4. Read to your child. Then read it again together. Then let the student read it by himself—I read, we read, you read.

5. Make flash cards of words your child has trouble reading and let them practice those cards repetitively.

6. Have your child underline or highlight how he or she would group phrases together when he “reads like we talk.”

If you have any questions regarding your scores or reading instruction, feel free to contact me at the school or by email.

Leigh Hudon

Reading Coach
lphudon@auburnschools.org

Dibels Guidelines

Sir Read-A-Lot says....

"Help your child be a Knightly Reader!!"