Emma has known her alphabet since she was 2 and learned the sounds the letters make soon after. So it came as a big surprise when at the Parent Teacher Conference last September we were told that Emma had failed the "Initial Sounds Fluency" part of the DIBELS test. Badly. In one minute's time Emma was able to point out the beginning sound of three words. Only three. When they retested her, she got a zero. We were pretty puzzled since Emma went into kindergarten knowing all of the letter sounds and even how to spell and handful of words.
We had our second Parent Teacher Conference of the year last Thursday. Tree and I met with Emma's teacher and one of the first things she went over were the results from the DIBELS testing. As we went over the "Initial Sounds Fluency" part she reminded us about Emma's 3 and 0 and showed us where they were on the chart. Then she showed us Emma's most recent test score. A 106. The teacher said when she inputted the score that the computer asked her, "Are you sure that is correct?". Emma got the highest score in the whole kindergarten for that part of the test. I have to admit, we were pretty dang proud.
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And Nana and Papa are pretty dang proud, too! (Great idea on the blog, Keri...we'll be checking back. Have fun! Love to all...Nana
Great site. I like it ALOT!!
Sounds like Emma is doing very well in School. Im proud of her too, of course!
Emma knows her letters and sounds!
Dibles can be deceptive.
Grandma
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