KINDERGARTEN INTERVENTION

Mrs. Boissey is responsible for assessing all kindergarteners’ pre-reading skills three times per year.

Each child has the DIBELS assessment given to them in September, January and June.

DIBELS stands for:

Dynamic

Indicators of

Basic

Early

Literacy

Skills

These early skills have been shown to be very good predictors of beginning reading success. If your child scores below the expected level in any of the skills, at any time during the year, he/she is seen once a day for 20 minutes by Mrs, Boissey. The children in the small groups are grouped together by skill need and receive intensive, explicit instruction in that skill. Every two weeks their progress is monitored so Mrs. Boissey can be assured that they making adequate progress.

  • Initial Sound Fluency- What sound do you hear at the beginning of thisword?
  • Final Sound Fluency- What sound do you hear at the end of this word?
  • Medial Sound Fluency-What sound do you hear in the middle of thisword?
  • Phoneme Counting- How many sounds are in this word?-
  • cat (3) /c//a//t/ shout (3) /sh//ou//t/
  • Phoneme Segmentation –Tell me the separate sounds that make this word.
  • Phoneme Blending - What word am I saying ? /f//r//o//g/ (Blendthesounds together)
  • Phoneme Deletion, Addition & Substitution- Say cat without the /c/ (at); Puta /b/ in front of at. What’s the word? (bat); Change the /b/ in bat to a /m/. What’s the word? (mat)
  • Letter Naming Fluency - Can you tell me the name of this letter FAST!
  • Letter Sound Association- What sound does this letter make?
  • Word Reading – Can you look at a word and make the sounds of the letters AND blend them into a word?

READ to your child daily.

Recite or sing Nursery Rhymes or other silly poems that play with words.

Teach your child to say the alphabet. Remember LMNOP is really 5 distinct letters.

Play sound games. “I spy something that begins like peanut. (pencil)

Make alphabet books from old magazines. Cut out pictures that start with the same sound.

Say words by saying their separate sounds. Ask your child what you are saying.