1st Grade Assessments

Benchmark Assessments = September, December, and May

Language Arts (Reading) Assessments

• DIBELS 8 (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills 8)
  1. This is our reading screener with each individual assessment timed for one minute. Below is the list of assessments.
     • LNF (Letter Naming Fluency) - The ability to name letters in the alphabet. Your child looked at a sheet of both upper and lowercase letters.
     • PSF (Phonemic Segmentation Fluency) - The ability to say all of the sounds found in a word. An example word is “cat”. Your child should say “c” “a” “t”.
     • NWF - CLS (Nonsense Word Fluency - Correct Letter Sounds) is the ability to correctly sound out letters in make believe words. An example word is “hap”. Your child should say “h” “a” “p”.
     • NWF - WRC (Nonsense Word Fluency - Word Read Correctly) is the ability to read make believe words. An example word is “lum”. Your child should say “lum”.
     • WRF (Word Reading Fluency) is the ability to read words. An example word is “and”. Your child should say “and”.
     • ORF (Oral Reading Fluency) - The ability to read a story fluently (quickly) and correctly.
• HFW (High Frequency Words)
  1. This assessment involves reading words such as "my"  "by"  "why"  "try"  "first"  "friend"
  2. We encourage you to contact your child's teacher to get the complete list so you can practice
• IDI (Informational Decoding Inventory) 
  1. This assessment targets specific areas within the components of reading
     • Short Vowel (CVC  "cat"  "run"  "sit")
     • Consonant Blends & Diagraphs ("bl"  "sh")
     • r-Controlled Vowel Patterns ("ar"  "er")
     • Vowel-Consonant-e (CVCe  "cake"  "note")
     • Vowel Teams ("ea"  "ee"  "oa"  "oo")
• Uppercase and Lowercase Letters (September Only)
• Sounds (September Only)