DIBLES Next

DIBLES has been completely revamped and is now a much more useful tool for reading teachers!  My school is lucky to have been included on the Read Across Georgia grant and I was selected to be on my school's Read Across Georgia team.  I attend a two day workshop learning about the new and improved DIBLES testing program now called DIBLES Next.  You can go to www.dibels.org and see the changes they have made and even better, you can download everything you need to use the new program FREE!!  If you download one of the grade level booklets for the DORF - DIBLES Oral Reading Fluency - when you print it use legal size paper.  The print will be too small on 8 1/2 X 11 paper.  A comprehension component has been added and the whole purpose is for accuracy and comprehension, not speed!  The program goes through 8th grade, I believe.  It is worth looking at and seeing what you think.  Also, if you teach high school, I get you have students who cannot read very well and are on middle school or even elementary reading levels.  This could be a good resource for you, too!  Progress monitoring is included on the site, too, but I am not sure if those materials are also FREE!  Our school gets the entire package for K-3 through the grant! I am so excited to try it and use it as a resource to improve reading in third grade at my school!!