Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee
How can we guarantee our student's success?
Presented by
Gayle Schmuhl
School Library/Media Specialist
District Library Chair
Berea City Schools
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on reading promotion, collection development and co-teaching
reading for the 3rd grade reading guarantee?
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What is the Ohio third grade reading guarantee?
Video available from ODE website at
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=5&ContentID=13
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What is the Ohio third grade reading guarantee?
Senate Bill 316 states, “All third
graders must demonstrate a certain
level of competency, set by the state
department of education, in reading
before advancing to the fourth grade..”
Exceptions for students with
disabilities and English Language
Learners
State Board of Education established a
score of 390 or above in 2013 on the
OAA as passing and 392 or higher on
same test in 2014
What is required by schools regarding the Ohio third
grade reading guarantee?
According to the Ohio Resource Center website
at: http://www.ohiorc.org/literacy_k5/3GRG/#
The law requires schools to:
 Assess the reading abilities of all students in
grades K–3 beginning with the 2012–2013 school
year by September 30, 2012
 Develop reading improvement and monitoring
plans for all students who are reading below grade
level
 Provide research-based reading interventions to
meet students' specific reading difficulties
Students entering third grade in 2013–2014 may be
held back at the end of third grade if they are not
reading on grade level.
What score is required by a 3rd grader to be promoted to 4th grade?
Score
required
to be
promoted
to the 4th
grade
next year
What recent changes have occurred with the third grade
reading guarantee?
Bill Summary of SB 21 – changes
(Changes are not yet law. These still need to go through the House of
Representatives.)
 Provides for the retention of a third-grade student who does not attain on the thirdgrade reading achievement assessment a score in the range prescribed by the State
Board of Education (as under current law) or at least the "equivalent level of
achievement" as determined by the Department of Education.
 Exempts from the annual diagnostic assessment students with significant cognitive
disabilities or other disabilities as authorized by the Department of Education.
 Removes the requirement that reading teachers under the third-grade reading
guarantee must have been actively engaged in the reading instruction of students for
the previous three years.
 Makes other changes in the criteria for qualifying as a teacher to provide services
under the third-grade reading guarantee. The bill prescribes that if a teacher is "an
effective reading instructor, as determined by criteria established by the Department,"
that teacher may provide reading guarantee services for the 2013-2014 school year
and beyond.
What recent changes have occurred with the third
grade reading guarantee?
 Strikes the following language from
HB 555:Value added rating, 3 year
previous of teaching reading, hold a
reading endorsement, and requiring
a passing score on assessment for
endorsement.
 Removes the requirement that a
waiver from the third-grade reading
guarantee teacher qualification
criteria for the 2013-2014 school
year is subject to approval by the
Department of Education.
 Declares an emergency so it goes
into effect immediately or on March
22, 2013.
Ohio House of Representatives. Digital image. Cleveland.com. N.p., n.d.
Web. 5 Mar. 2013.
What other states have a reading guarantee?
Iowa and Wisconsin are states with recent literacy focused legislations:
Iowa -- SF 2284
 Schools must assess kindergarten readiness of every 4 year old
 All K- 3 students tested every school year with struggling readers offered intensive
remedial reading instruction
 Parents of students who fall behind can opt for child to repeat grade or enroll them
in an intensive summer reading program
Wisconsin -- SB 461
 Funds for a universal kindergarten screener
 Teachers must pass a more rigorous licensure test
 Creates a new system for tracking the performance of
instructors from different teacher-preparatory programs.
What happened in Florida with its 3rd grade
reading guarantee began in 2002?
Here’s a few of the statistics:
 1st year more than 30% of Florida’s 3rd
graders were at risk of retention but
within two years this percentage cut by
50%
 Florida’s scores on the National
Assessment of Educational Progress
improved faster than national average
and now those 4th graders NAEP
reading scores have increased 11
points since 2002
("Data: Comparing Reading Performance in Ohio to Florida
in Third Grade Reading Guarantee Debate")
How does Ohio compare with Florida?
In comparison to Ohio:
 In 2002 -- Florida’s 4th graders
behind in reading to those in Ohio
or the nation
 By 2011 -- Florida’s 4th graders had
caught up to those in Ohio and the
nation but now outperformed them
yet
 By 2011 -- A greater percentage of
Florida’s low-income 4th graders
had become proficient in reading –
Ohio’s same low-income students
stayed about the same
("Data: Comparing Reading Performance in Ohio to Florida
in Third Grade Reading Guarantee Debate")
How can school librarians help support the third
grade reading guarantee?
Reading Promotion
Technology Support
Partner with classroom
teachers to teach reading
How can promoting reading help support
the third grade reading guarantee?
The ABC’s of Reading Promotion
Allow for a variety of experiences to
expand a child’s background knowledge
and vocabulary
Be ready to provide reader’s
advisory services students and
teachers
Create a reading culture in your
school library
Dorr, Christina H. How Can Teachers and Librarians Partner to Support the Third Grade
Guarantee? N.p.: Ohio Resource Center, Dec. 2012. PDF.
How can school librarians provide technology
support for the third grade reading guarantee?
Look for WEB 2.0 tools and
Tablet Apps to support literacy
Focus on electronic
resources including
INFOHIO that can help
promote literacy skills
Make available different types of
media including e-books, audio
books, video, e-readers
Dorr, Christina H. How Can Teachers and Librarians Partner to Support the Third
Grade Guarantee? N.p.: Ohio Resource Center, Dec. 2012. PDF.
How can school librarians provide technology
support for the third grade reading guarantee?
Integrating Reading and Technology Ideas
From AASL
 Create your own modern day fairy tale, myth or fable –
podcasts or blog
 Blogs for reader’s response to a prompt or classroom
connection
 Continue classroom discussions online on blog or wiki
 Teach sequencing with putting pictures from Flickr in
order on VoiceThread or SlideShare
 Teach setting with Google Earth
 Create book trailer videos as an alternative to
traditional book reports
"School Librarian's Role in Reading Toolkit." American Library Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013.
How can school librarians provide technology
support for the third grade reading guarantee?
 Digital storytelling using various online tools
(Animoto, VoiceThread)
 Online reading circles or literature discussion groups
using blogs or wikis
 Wikis to publish a class newspaper
 Blogs of keep a journal or respond to current events
they have read
 Create podcasts of book character interviews
 Students read, write and record a podcast of original
poetry
 Students create book review podcast
"School Librarian's Role in Reading Toolkit." American Library Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013.
How can school librarians provide technology
support for the third grade reading guarantee?
 Get students excited about reading when they follow
KidderLit on Twitter. Everyday they post the first line of a
young adult or children's book. The trick is that they don't tell
you what the book is or who the author is. A research
project perhaps or a challenge between groups, classes or
schools? You can also limit the age groups and/or genre of
the books that are chosen.
 Have students develop messages as historic or fictional
characters might have communicated in 140 character
tweets - "Historical Tweets"
 Create an account that only students access and use it to
recommend books. Keep kids reading through the summer.
Students will need to be creative in "hooking" their peers to
read in only 140 characters.
 A new spin on the old cumulative story. Start with you
posting a story starter and then use TwitterFall to have
students add their part to it.
"School Librarian's Role in Reading Toolkit." American Library Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013.
How can school librarians provide technology support for
the third grade reading guarantee?
How can we co-teach reading with our fellow teachers?
Teaching literature and
informational text standards
Guiding students through
inquiry and writing
standards
Modeling reading strategies
Dorr, Christina H. How Can Teachers and Librarians Partner to Support the Third Grade
Guarantee? N.p.: Ohio Resource Center, Dec. 2012. PDF.
Do you have any questions, comments?
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