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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).