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Greenville City School District
Grade 3 Language Arts
& Reading Guarantee
By Kitty Zumbrink
Principal, East Intermediate School
As many of you are likely aware, the Ohio Achievement Assessment (OAA)
will no longer be administered to assess reading for third grade
students. Ohio’s Grade 3 English language arts test will replace
the OAA. This test is designed to measure whether or not students
meet the requirements of the Third Grade Reading Guarantee
(TGRG). The vendor for this measurement is the American
Institutes for Research (AIR). “AIR” may sound familiar to many
parents as older students were measured in the content areas of science
and social studies last year using this vendor.
It is important to note that Greenville City Schools has set aside the
week of December 7-December 11, 2015 for the Grade 3 ELA
administration. Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee
mandates third grade students must meet a minimum passing score on this
assessment; however, a cut-score (passing score) has yet to be
determined by the Ohio Department of Education. In order to
prepare for the up-coming, state-wide, on-line assessment, the third
grade students have been receiving thirty minutes of technology
instruction a week in addition to their language arts
instruction. This population was also administered the Measures
of Academic Progress (MAP) test in September to mimic the types of
questions with which they will be presented on the Grade 3 ELA
administration.
Students have several opportunities to meet the requirement of the
Third Grade Reading Guarantee. First, a minimum score of 186, as
determined by the Ohio Department of Education, is needed on the
reading portion of the MAP assessment in order to be promoted to fourth
grade. Additional MAP administrations will occur in December 2015 and
May 2016. Furthermore, students can meet the requirement of the
TGRG by attaining the cut score on the Grade 3 ELA test. In
addition to the December Grade 3 ELA measurement, there will also be a
second administration of that same assessment in April 2016.
The September MAP results have been communicated to parents. A
reading improvement and monitoring plan (RIMP) is currently being
developed for any third grade student who was determined to be “not on
track” at the beginning of the year as indicated by the MAP
measurement. Parents are encouraged to contact their third grade
child’s language arts instructor with questions.
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