Reading Case Study
A student, who has just completed the third grade, segmented 46 sounds per
minute on the DIBELS Phoneme Segmentation Fluency probe, and on the DIBELS
Next Nonsense Fluency Probe, she decoded 29 correct letter sounds in one
minute and read 4 whole nonsense words (CVC) in one minute. The expected
norms for the aforementioned indicators are to segment 40 sounds per minute by
the end of kindergarten (PSF) and to decode 58 correct letter sounds and read 13
whole words by the end of first grade (NWF). On a single syllable word probe,
this soon to be fourth grade girl read 8/12 CVC words correctly (67%), 8/12 CVCC
words correctly (67%), 11/12 (92%) CCVC words correctly, 6/12 (50%) silent e
words correctly, and 5/12 (42%) silent e words with beginning blends correctly,
8/12 words correctly that contained double vowels (67%), and 6/12 words
correctly that contained R-combination vowels correctly (50%).
Some examples of her miscues are listed below:
On a graded isolated word recognition test, she scored at the independent level
(making fewer than 3 errors out of 20 words) in grade three and at the frustration
level (making 5 or more errors) at the second grade level. Some examples of errors
were:
On the DIBELS Next Oral Reading Fluency Probe, she read a first grade passage with 62
correct words with a retell of 23 words for a 89% accuracy score, a second grade
DIBELS passage with 59 correct words and a retell of 41 words with an accuracy score
of 90%, and a third grade DIBELS NEXT passage with 51 correct words with a retell of
25 words and an accuracy score of 82%. The norm for a student who has completed
the third grade is to read a third grade DIBELS NEXT passage with 100 correct words
and a retell of 30 words at an accuracy rate of 98%.
Using the reported assessment data reported in word recognition/decoding and
fluency, write two PLAAFP statements: one PLAAFP statement in word recognition
and one PLAAFP statement in fluency (5 points). Based on the PLAAFP statements
write one goal in one area only and two objectives related to your stated goal. (5
points)
Saw: rid tube found firm spine melt
Said: jump tub foned farm spin metal
Saw: family which other
Said: funny wish over
In addition indicate the name of a program or intervention that you would use to
meet the objectives that you wrote and include a reference that supports the
intervention that you selected (5 points). Finally, describe and provide examples of
progress monitoring tools that you would use to monitor progress for the objectives
written. (5 Total points)