Partners can be reassigned after each DIBELS Benchmark Test.
The teacher manages the timer
Student A reads for 3-4 minutes while Student B carefully tracks what is being read from their copy of the text.
Student B’s job is to stop Student A if they hear an error and ask them to re-read or sound the word out. (Student A may read the text more than once).
Student B reads for 3-4 minutes while Student A carefully tracks what is being read from their copy of the text.
Student A’s job is to stop Student B if they hear an error and ask them to re-read or sound the word out. (Student B may read the whole text or only part of the text).
You may ask students to highlight the focus grapheme(s) or share definitions of some vocabulary in the connected text.
In this edition:
Assessment: There’s tests and then there’s tests! …
The difference between assessing reading and spelling…
New Assessments on the platform…
Pure sounds are crucial to forming accurate mental representations of speech sounds (phonemes). Most of us have taught from programs that are a little sloppy on phoneme pronunciation and have formed not-so-great pronunciations. This video covers some of the trickier phonemes and their pronunciations in Playberry Laser T1-2. Some schools use this video in staff meetings to get sounds pure and have a good laugh at each other! Some teachers show this to students, and some even send it home to parents.
In this edition:
Additive Blending in Phase 1 …
Teaching Heart Words Well …
2025 Training Dates …
Phase 0 Has Lift-Off! …
Lesson Videos ….
We Have a How-to Section
Watch Bill Teach a Tier 2 intervention Group Lesson.
Playberry Laser has freed teachers from having to create materials so they can get on with the job of teaching. This has a downside. When teachers are provided with materials, they miss the learning that comes with designing the instructional materials and because of this, miss important learning about ‘why’ of the ‘how’ we ask them to teach. This places a huge importance on leaders to know how the materials are to be used and to set up cycles of observation and feedback with teachers.
Leaders, where is where your schools need you to get brave!
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