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DIBELS homework outrage

Question from a parent:

I have a child in Kindergarten. Today my son's teacher sent home note asking parents to practice the 60 nonsense words on the list with their child and that a new list will be sent home every 2 weeks until May when the children will be tested again. The note said that they are practice the list twice daily in school.

This is what confuses me, when I called the DOE (Department of Education) they told me that DIBELS is a testing system and is not instructional material. The person at DOE also went on to say that DIBELS should not be taught by a list. I then called my child's school and they told me some teachers use a list to help prepare the students for the testing. The school also told me that if I want to help my child to exceed benchmark I should make reviewing the list a priority.

Help! What should I do? I don't see any point in teaching nonsense words.

This is outrageous. Of course, we urged the parent to read aloud to her child. Read wonderful books.

That said, we praise parents who ask questions.