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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) Provide each retained student with a high-performing teacher
(based on the teacher’s student performance data, if available,
and the teacher’s performance reviews. The district shall also
offer to parents the option to receive appropriate services from a
provider other than the school district (apparently at district
expense). These providers can be screened and approved by
either the department of education or the school district.
Students utilizing such services and demonstrating reading
proficiency prior to the start of fourth grade shall be promoted.
4)Provide instruction in other subjects “commensurate with student
achievement levels” in those specific academic fields.
If the district offers “intensive interventions in reading” through a summer
reading camp, it must comply with the nutrition requirements in ORC
3313.813.
For those students who will receive intervention services, the district
must develop within sixty days of receiving results from the assessment
the reading improvement and monitoring plan. This plan (the
development of which has involved the student’s parents and classroom
teacher) must include all of the following:
(1) Identification of the student’s specific reading deficiencies;
(2) A description of the additional instructional services and
support that will be provided to the student to remediate the
identified reading deficiencies;
(3) Opportunities for the student’s parent or guardian to be
involved in the instructional services and support;
(4) A process for monitoring the extent to which the student
receives the instructional services and support;
(5) A reading curriculum during regular school hours that does
all of the following:
a.Assists students to read at grade level;
b.Provides scientifically based and reliable assessment;
c.Provides initial and ongoing analysis of each student’s
reading progress.
(6) A statement that if the student fails to achieve the required
score on the required assessment by the end of third grade,
the student may be retained in third grade.
Any student entering third grade after July 1, 2013 with a reading
improvement and monitoring plan shall be assigned to a teacher who
either has a reading endorsement on the teacher’s license or who has
passed a state board approved “rigorous test of principles of scientifically
based reading instruction.”
Annually, each school district shall report on its implementation of and
compliance with the third grade reading guarantee. Based on the
information to be reported by the superintendent of public instruction, it
would appear that districts will be required to report:
(1) the number and percentage of students in grades K-4 reading
below grade level based on the diagnostic and the achievement
assessments and aggregated by district and by building;
(2) types of intervention services provided; and
(3) an evaluation of the provided services (if available).