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By Dibels and Bits

Well, I will do the best that I can answering your questions. Anyone else, feel free to chime in!

1. Our LL does this for us and gives us a print-out of intensive, strategic, and benchmark students.

2. We start at
the beginning of the booklet. You give it three times during the year. There are three passages each time. They must read the passage to you (you count words for 1 min.). Then they have to retell the story in as many words as they can. You count how many words they say.
Another part, you give a list of words (one at a time) they use the word in a sentence. You count how many words

they used in their sentence. If the word has a homophone, you use anyone that they give as long as it is a real word and is a sentence. (EX the word is pair. They say," I ate a pear for dessert. That is acceptable.) If they just sit there, you move on to the next word. You don't want to cost them any time since it is timed also for 1 min.

3. On the fluency, you mark a slash through the word if they missed it. If they self correct, you write a SC above that word. If they skip a whole line, you mark through that line. When they retell, you start drawing a line through the numbers given (as you count how many words they say.) It will be listed as 0123456789101112131415161718etc. You draw your line through the numbers as they retell. You do the same on the sentences.

4. When you count up their words, you don't count missed words, but you do count SC words. If they add a word, you don't do anything with it but if they leave out a word, it is an error and won't be counted in.

SCORING: You will have three final scores (Oral Fluency, Retell, Word --whatever it is called) For Oral Fluency-you take the middle score of the three passages read. For Retell-you count up the words in all. For Word Analysis(or whatever it is called), you score each sentence by the amount of words they use, then add all of them together.

I think this is it. Hope it helps.