Dolch Pre-Primer and Primer Sight Words Progress Monitoring Probes

About this resource

One skill, start to finish. A sight word IEP goal for the Dolch Pre-Primer and Primer lists, six equivalent probe forms, and a graph scaled to the probe. Baseline on Monday, goal written by Tuesday, first data point on Friday.

This is the DOLCH list, not Fry: the store already sells Fry sight word reading probes for all three hundreds, and Dolch is a different published list some districts and goal banks name instead. Checked word-for-word against this store's Fry banks: 78 of these 92 Dolch words also appear somewhere in the Fry First, Second and Third Hundred combined (words 1-300), and 52 of the 92 appear in the Fry First Hundred alone (this store's original sight word probe) -- so a case manager who already owns that probe already has more than half this list, just not grouped, ordered, or labeled as Dolch. The other 14 words are on none of the three Fry hundreds at all -- 5 of the list's six color words (blue, red, yellow, black, brown) are on none of the three; white is the one exception, already in the Fry Third Hundred.

WHAT IS INCLUDED - 16 pages, six probe forms, FIELDS_TBD type-in fields, a binder cover and divider tabs, a family update page

A Binder Cover And Divider Tabs

• A binder cover with student, case manager and school year fields, cut and slide into a binder front or folder tab
• Six divider tabs, one per section of this file, print and cut

The Goal Page

• What the probe measures, in one paragraph
• A sample goal, invented, with every bracket meant to be edited by the team
• The six-part goal frame as type-in fields: by (date), given, student will, criterion, on ___ of ___ consecutive probes, as measured by
• A baseline table: three probes and the median
• Three benchmark rows with target date, target score, actual score and met
• The administration and scoring directions
• Lines for this student's own scoring rules, and a box for what the errors say to reteach

Six Probe Forms, A Through F

• Ten words per form from the Dolch Pre-Primer and Primer lists, 92 words together
• Sixty of the 92 across the six forms, none on two forms
• This is Dolch, not a rebadged Fry list: 78 of the 92 words also appear somewhere in the Fry First, Second and Third Hundred combined (52 with the Fry First Hundred alone), and 14 are on none of the three Fry hundreds (5 of the list's six color words (blue, red, yellow, black, brown) are on none of the three; white is the one exception, already in the Fry Third Hundred)
• The two-second rule in the sample goal is a scoring rule, not a timing: the student is never asked to beat a clock
• Every form carries the goal it measures: the sample goal, plus a type-in box for the goal as written for this student, so the goal prints on the sheet the person giving the probe is holding
• A teacher scoring strip, 1 to 10, and a Correct ___ / 10 box at the foot of every form
• Name, date and form letter at the top

The Data Log And Graph

• A y-axis already scaled 0 to 10, twelve probe columns, and the instruction to draw the aim line from the baseline to the criterion first
• A twelve-row log: date, form, correct, errors, the score used on the graph, and notes

The Caseload Summary

• Twelve student rows, baseline and criterion, eight probe columns, a trend column and a decision column
• For the data meeting: rows that are flat together are a group, a row that is flat alone is a different question

A Worked Example

• Priya, kindergarten, invented. Twelve weekly probes: the baseline taken as a median, the aim line, three points under it forcing a teaching change (moved the four missed Primer words onto flashcard rings for daily review, separate from the mastered Pre-Primer set), the criterion met, and the progress-report sentence the log produces. Every number in that sentence is on the log.

A Family Update And Team Handoff Page

• A family update with blanks for this week's score and how it compares to the goal, ready to send home or read at a conference
• A team handoff checklist for a substitute, a new provider or a shift change, so whoever gives the probe that week knows exactly what to do
• A meeting summary sentence with blanks for the two numbers off the log, ready to drop into the progress report

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF. The goal page, the goal box on every probe form, the data log and the caseload page are type-in fields: open the file in a PDF reader, click a line or a cell, type, and Save As once per student. The probe forms are meant to be printed; the student reads from paper and writes nothing. It works offline with no account or subscription. It does not calculate percents or draw the graph.

It is not a norm-referenced assessment and it carries no benchmark score or "typical" rate. The criteria in the sample goal are in brackets because your team sets them from the baseline and the student's IEP. Every probe is untimed on purpose; the goal page says so, so the condition stays the same all year.

Who This Is For

Preschool through first grade special education teachers and case managers writing sight word goals for a Dolch-based program or district, intervention and Title teachers, and the paraprofessionals who give the weekly probe.

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