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The Third Grade
Reading Guarantee
The Third Grade Reading Guarantee (TGRG) was developed in 2013 and is
used as a method to identify students in grades kindergarten through
third grade that are behind in reading. Third grade students will
initially take the Ohio’s Grade 3 English Language Arts test later this
month. This test is designed to measure whether or not students meet
the requirements of the Third Grade Reading Guarantee for promotion to
fourth grade. Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee mandates third grade
students meet a minimum passing score of 44 on the assessment. This
cut-score has been pre-determined by the Ohio Department of Education.
There will also be a second administration of the Ohio Grade 3 English
Language Arts assessment in April 2018. 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. Classrooms are also
dedicating 20 minutes of weekly intervention to keyboarding skills.
The third grade population has already had one opportunity to meet the
Third Grade Reading Guarantee by taking the reading portion of the
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) in September. The questions on the
MAP are designed to mimic the types of questions with which students
will be presented on the Ohio Grade 3 ELA administration. Throughout
the year, students will have two more opportunities to meet the
requirement of the Third Grade Reading Guarantee (December 2017 and May
2018). A minimum score of 196, again 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.
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 “not on track” at the beginning of the
year as indicated by the MAP measurement. This plan describes to
parents what interventions are being utilized to ensure their child’s
reading success. Parents are encouraged to contact their third grade
child’s language arts instructor with any questions regarding the Third
Grade Reading Guarantee requirements, RIMPs, or ways to assist their
child with reading.
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