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b.Description of the current services provided to the student;
and
c.Description of the supplemental services and supports to
be provided in order to remediate the identified areas of
reading deficiency.
d. Notification that the failure to achieve the designated
score when the test is administered in the spring of the
student’s third grade year. (This notification shall also
inform the parent that the state’s assessment “is not the
sole determinant” and that other evaluations and
assessments are available.)
2) Provide intensive reading instruction immediately following
identification of a reading deficiency by using research-based
strategies specific for the student’s identified reading
deficiencies.
For those students retained as a result of the third grade reading
guarantee, a district must
1) Provide “intensive interventions in reading” for at least ninety
minutes daily. These “intensive interventions in reading” may
include any of the following:
a. Small group instruction;
b. Reduced teacher-student ratios;
c. More frequent progress monitoring;
d. Tutoring or mentoring;
e. Transition classes with both third and fourth grade
students;
f. Extended school day, week, or year; and
g.Summer reading camps.
2) Establish a policy for mid-year promotion for retained third grade
students who demonstrate reading achievement at or above
grade level.
3)For students retained in third grade provide each student with a
teacher who meets one of the following criteria:
a.Has at least one year of teaching experience (but may
provide service with less than one year if teacher
meets all other requirements and is assigned a mentor
with at least one year of experience and all other
qualifications under the program);
b.Holds a reading endorsement on a teaching license and
has attained the passing score on the assessment for
that endorsement;
c.Completed a master’s degree program with a major in
reading;
d.Rated as “most effective” for reading instruction for the
most recent two years based on assessments of
student growth measures that are developed by a
vendor and that are on the list of student assessments
approved by the state board;
e.Rated as “above expected value added” in reading
instruction for the most recent, consecutive two school
years (as determined by ODE);
f.Earned a passing score on a “rigorous test of principles of
scientifically research-based reading instruction,” as
approved by the state board;
g.Holds an educator license for teaching grades pre-
kindergarten through three or four through nine issued
on or after July 1, 2017.
Another alternative applies to students being retained for the first time in
grade three and for students receiving an intervention plan for the first