More DIBELS Data Boards

This year our Data Board theme is "Growing Stronger Together."  That is also our school theme--each teacher and student has a t-shirt with our logo for this year.  Each grade level has created a data board to track and share the DIBELS scores confidentially. Here they are:

 

Kindergarten Data board.  Students are represented on the caterpillar at the beginning of the year.  I guess I'll need to make another post to update how this will look in the middle of the year and at the end.  By the way, there's a bee as each teacher and one for the principal. :)

First grade data board based on the popular children's story The Three Little Pigs.  Students are represented by cute little pigs.  The straw house would be students requiring the most support (red).  The stick house is for students who are in the yellow.  Students who are at grade level in DIBELS are on the brick house--secure skills. The big, bad wolf has our principal's photo.

 

Second grade created flowers with petals to show their readers' growth.

 



Third grade made a garden.  (Think Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary)

 

Fourth grade--apple baskets.

 

 

Fifth grade flower pots.

 

Creative Kim starts Daily Five

My friend Mrs. Kim Benson has an adorable Americana classroom.  Last year our school read "The Daily Five" by the sisters and several teachers are rolling it out this year.  Kim's book boxes are adorable and blend with her red, white, and blue theme so well!
Want to see some more of her classroom?  I love getting ideas from my coworkers!

This year we are reading the CAFE book by the sisters!

How adorable is her calendar (she got the idea from Pottery Barn)? 

Kristina Smekens 6+ traits of writing bulletin board.

Thanks Kim for letting us have a peek at some of your creative ideas!

The Storybook Game

The Storybook Game

This game would be fun (and easy) to make on your own.  Students take silly pictures (one card at a time) and make them into a story.  Here was the K story today.

Once upon a time there was a singing violin who ate an apple.  Then he used a rope to tie up a pig.  He met a piano, being played by an alligator.  The alligator ate a fish....

The story started to become disjointed here so we discontinued the game but the idea is that the students are practicing their speaking by retelling a self-created story.  Also, like Mad-Libs, the stories can get pretty funny! There are 54 cards in all so this game could be used at all elementary grade levels and for all levels of English Learners (EL).

Directions

LAS Links English Proficiency Test

LAS links is the English Proficiency Assessment Indiana ENL teachers administer to public school enrolled ELs every year.  LAS assesses students' Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing ability.  Classroom teachers and ENL instructors should use this data to drive their instruction.  During a webex training I viewed prior to assessment this year, it was suggested that we use the rubric from the speaking portion with our students throughout the year. 
We handed them out at our ENL family night for parents to use at home and are making the students familiar with the rubric as well.

I have typed it up and you are welcome to use it with your students as well, free of charge!http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/LAS-Links-English-Speaking-Proficiency-Rubric

PI Day!

Today is PI day so our principal treated us to Bob Evans pies in the lounge.  We have the BEST principal!  Happy Pi Day!

Organization guru

It's not me!  The organization guru is one of my co-teachers.  She amazes me on the daily.  Mrs. Boyle teaches third grade at our elementary school.  Her classroom is always clean and organized.  Here is an example of her bookshelf.  I love the way that it is organized by author--makes for easier author studies with the students. 

DIBELS Data Boards

Does your school DIBEL?  What creative ways do you have to help the students create and meet goals?  We get the kids involved with data folders at each grade level where the students color in their fluency and keep track of their goals.  But we also have a fun way to share grade level data.  Check out the photos below and please share your ideas in the comments.

• DIBELS data boards--each grade level was given the theme and were able to use their collective creativity to design the board however they liked so that each student per grade level were represented.  The theme of the boards is our corporation theme this year "Endurance," based on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition (if you are not familiar with this, think Titanic only everyone survives).

 

This is our Kindergarten DIBELS board. 

Students are represented by bulldogs because that is our school mascot. 

Red bulldogs are below grade level in their DIBELS assessments (PSF and NWF). 

Yellow bulldogs are "at risk." 

The green bulldogs are on level. 

Progression is from right to left.

First grade DIBELS board. 

Here the students are represented by sailboats color coded by classroom, they each have their own #.

They start on the left and progress to the right to Benchmark Island.

 

Second Grade DIBELS data board.

Students are represented by mountain climbers, and numbered.

Left to right progression with flags to show the BOY (beginning of year), MOY, and EOY benchmarks: 52 WPM, 72, WPM, and 87 WPM.

Anything to the right of that is above benchmark in oral reading fluency (ORF).

Third Grade DIBELS data board.

Students are on numbered/colored lifesavers.

Left to right progression with buoys representing the benchmarks.

Those lifeguards at the bottom are the teachers.

Fourth Grade DIBELS data board.

Students got to color their own fish which is labeled with a letter (double letters if more than 26 students per class) to represent themselves.  The first group is held in the fishbowl (0-93) and may progress to the aquarium (94-105) before hitting the open seas (106-118 and above).

Fifth Grade DIBELS data board.

Students are represented by sailors--red, yellow, and green for the corresponding data.

The icebergs are for the red and yellow below level readers.

The first ship is for 104-114 wpm.

The second ship is for 115-123 wpm.

Students hit land when they reach 124+ wpm.

Professional Development--Chain Stories

Please allow me to introduce myself!  I am an ENL teacher in Indianapolis, Indiana.  I've been enjoying this position for 6 years and although I miss having my own classroom, I absolutely love my job!  One part of this position that differs from a general education position is that I get to do professional development with my coteachers.  Sometimes we do this as an ENL team--I love working with the other ENL teachers in my district to generate ideas.  Do you do trainings in your buildings?  If so, I'd love to hear your ideas.  Below is one of my favorite ways to make the audience feel like an EL.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Chain-Stories

Greetings from 2000!  I've been busy teaching for the past 10 years and technology has been passing me by!  So, I decided to jump out of my comfort zone and jump on the worldwide web.  Sure, I've been using email and social media but I have not been publishing.  It is time to take the next step and share all the great ideas I've accumulated over the years.  I am excited to get it out there and a little unsure where to start...first post down...more to come...