DIBELS Benchmark Goals Three Assessment Periods Per Year

DIBELS Benchmark Goals
Three Assessment Periods Per Year

KINDERGARTEN

Beginning of Year Middle of Year End of Year
Month 1 - 3 Month 4 - 6 Month 7 - 10
DIBELS Measure Scores Status Scores Status Scores Status

Initial Sound 0 - 3 At risk 0 -9 Deficit
Not administered during this
Fluency (ISF) 4 - 7 Some risk 10 - 24 Emerging assessment period
8 and above Low risk 25 and above Established

Letter Naming 0 - 1 At risk 0 - 14 At risk 0 - 28 At risk
Fluency (LNF) 2 - 7 Some risk 15 - 26 Some risk 29 - 39 Some risk
8 and above Low risk 27 and above Low risk 40 and above Low risk

Phoneme 0 - 6 At risk 0 - 9 Deficit
Not administered during this assessment
Segmentation 7 - 17 Some risk 10 - 34 Emerging period
Fluency (PSF) 18 and above Low risk 35 and above Established

Nonsense Word 0 - 4 At risk 0 - 14 At risk
Not administered during this assessment
Word Fluency 5 - 12 Some risk 15 - 24 Some risk period
(NWF-CLS) 13 and above Low risk 25 and above Low risk

BENCHMARK GOALS FOR THIS MEASURE HAVE NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED.
Word Use Tentatively, students in the lowest 20 percent of a school district using local norms should be considered at risk for poor
Fluency (WUF) language and reading outcomes, and those between the 20th percentile and 40th percentile should be considered at some
risk.

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