LC Guide to Dibels
Letter Naming Fluency (LNF)
Set a timer for 1 minute. Have your scholar say as many of these letter sounds as they can.
Phoneme Segmentation (PSF)
Put a timer on for 1 minute. Say the word and have your scholar tell you all the sounds they hear.
Ex. say “mat” student /m/ /a/ /t/
You are looking for them to say every sound without seeing the word. Each of these words is broken down into 3 sounds.
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)
Put a timer on for 1 minute. Show the words to your scholar. You are looking for them to say each sound correctly. They can say the sound and blend the whole word, or read the whole word to you. These are not real words.
Reading and Comprehension
Set a timer for 1 minute. Have your scholar read the story to you until the timer goes off.
Word Reading
Set a timer for 1 minute. Have your scholar read as many of these sight words as they can
MAZE/DAZE
4th Grade set a timer for 3 minutes. Have your student read the story and choose the best word to complete the sentence.