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District staff explains DIBBLES screening and new Spanish 'lectura' for K 4
Summary
At a Buffalo City School District work session, staff outlined how the DIBBLES universal screener (English) and new lectura (Spanish) assess word-recognition skills K 4, how results are collected in benchmark windows, and how teachers use brief one-minute probes and progress monitoring to guide instruction.
At a Buffalo City School District work session, a district specialist explained how the district uses the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, commonly called DIBBLES, as its universal screening tool for students in kindergarten through fourth grade and described the district s new Spanish assessment, lectura.
"DIBBLES is a test that we use as a screening measure and it tells us a lot about skilled reading," presenter Bachelli said, describing the tool s a composite of several one-minute probes that feed an overall score. She outlined the reading "rope" framework—language comprehension at the top and word recognition at the bottom—and said DIBBLES focuses on the…
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