1. THIRD GRADE READING GUARANTEE
September 2018

2. Jerry Moore

3. Third grade reading guarantee
What you need to know about –
Reading Diagnostics/Screeners with On Track/Not on Track Status
Cut Scores and Reporting
Reading Assessments with Promotion Scores
Cut Scores, Setting Up for State Testing, and Reporting
TGRG Basics
Dates
Reading Intervention Monitoring Plans
Notification to Parents about TGRG Rules and Student Status
Some State Scholarship Students are Exempt

4. diagnostics

5. diagnostics Required for K-3 state scholarship students
Consider the assessment for all students especially when you have a lot of state scholarship students

6. diagnostics Consider the TGRG diagnostic plan connection to Title I
Title I requires an NCE or percentile rank on a nationally normed test for eligibility consideration

7. Approved Diagnostics & CUT SCORES for ON TRACK - 2018-19
MAP for Grades K-2
Kindergarten: 132 RIT Score or above
1st Grade: 151 RIT Score or above
2nd Grade: 170 RIT Score or above
MAP for Grades 2-5
3rd Grade: 181 RIT Score or above
MAP also provides percentile ranks

8. Approved Diagnostics & CUT SCORES for ON TRACK - 2018-19
STAR EARLY LITERACY
Kindergarten: 40th percentile rank or above
1st Grade: 40th percentile rank or above
2nd Grade: 60th percentile rank or above
3rd Grade: 70th percentile rank or above
STAR READING
1ST Grade: 25th percentile rank or above
2nd Grade: 25th percentile rank or above
3rd Grade: 25th percentile rank or above
STAR Reading also provides NCEs

9. Approved Diagnostics & CUT SCORES for ON TRACK - 2018-19
IOWA F Reading
Kindergarten: 122 scaled score or above
1st Grade: 133 scaled score or above
2nd Grade: 148 scaled score or above
3rd Grade: 163 scaled score or above
IOWA also provides NCEs

10. Approved Diagnostics & CUT SCORES for 2018-19
DIBELSNext (DIBELS Data System)
The Benchmark goals represent a level of performance for all students to reach in order to be considered on track for becoming a successful reader.
Kindergarten: 26 composite score
1st Grade: 131 composite score
2nd Grade: 141composite score
3rd Grade: 220 composite score

11. Approved Diagnostics & CUT SCORES for ON TRACK - 2018-19
DIBELSNext (all vendors)
Kindergarten: 13 composite score
1st Grade: 97 composite score
2nd Grade: 109composite score
3rd Grade: 180 composite score
DIBELSNext also provides percentile ranks

12. Approved Diagnostics & CUT SCORES for ON TRACK - 2018-19
AIMSweb Plus
16th percentile or above

13. Approved Diagnostics & CUT SCORES for 2018-19
iReady
Kindergarten: 332 scaled score or above
1st Grade: 378 scaled score or above
2nd Grade: 440 scaled score or above
3rd Grade: 493 scaled score or above
iReady also provides percentile ranks

14. Approved Diagnostics & CUT SCORES
Link to ODE for all approved diagnostics
Link to ODE for diagnostic cut scores

15. Questions?

16. How to Report TGRG data to state

17. How to Report Diagnostic Status
Log into Safe Account
Select record for K-3 student
Select Assessment tab
Bullet status – upper right
Deadline for Administering Diagnostics
1-3 Deadline is September 30
K Deadline is November 1
Deadline for Reporting Diagnostics
ASAP – by end of November

18. How to Report Grade 3 Promotion Score
Log into Safe Account
Select record for grade 3 student
Select Assessment tab
Bullet status – upper right

19. How to Report state test performance
AIR reports scores to Scholarship Office
The school does not have to report these scores unless there is a error in the score file. The Scholarship Office will flag students with issues.

20. DEMONSTRATION
Link to Safe Account

21. Questions?

22. state testing

23. STATE GRADE 3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS ASSESSMENT
Promotion Score - FAQ
Promotion is based on the Grade 3 ELA scaled score
The reading subscore can also be used
State grade 3 ELA promotion score is a scaled score of 677
State alternative promotion score is the reading subscore of 45

24. Promotion scores Students have 9 different scores to be reviewed
Grade 3 state ELA test scaled score - Fall, Spring, Summer
Grade 3 state ELA test reading subscore - Fall, Spring, Summer
Grade 3 alternative assessment - Fall, Spring, Summer

25. ALTERNATIVE Reading assessments & Promotion scores
Promotion Score – Vendor Alternative Assessments

26. ALL TGRG PROMOTION SCORES
STATE ELA ASSESSMENT – SCALED SCORE - 677
STATE ELA ASSESSMENT – READING SUBSCORE – 45
IOWA F READING – SCALED SCORE – 174
STAR GRADE 3 PROFICIENCY TEST – 941
NWEA MAP GRADE 3 READING SCALED SCORE – 193
IREADY – READING SCALED SCORE - 500

27. Questions?

28. TGRG Basics

29. TGRG Manual - NEW Link – Manual
Read last section first. Not all requirements for public schools apply to chartered non-public schools.
Reading Diagnostics/Screeners with On Track/Not on Track Status
Reading Assessments with Promotion Scores
TGRG Basics
Dates
Reading Intervention Monitoring Plans
Notification to Parents about TGRG Rules and Student Status
Reporting TGRG Information through Scholarship Websystem
Exempt Students

30. TGRG Manual - NEW Link – Manual
Read last section first. Not all requirements for public schools apply to chartered non-public schools.
Reading Diagnostics/Screeners with On Track/Not on Track Status
Reading Assessments with Promotion Scores
TGRG Basics
Dates
Reading Intervention Monitoring Plans
Notification to Parents about TGRG Rules and Student Status
Reporting TGRG Information through Scholarship Websystem
Exempt Students

31. Questions?

32. TGRG Dates

33. TGRG Dates FOR 2018-19 September 30 – Complete 1-3 Diagnostics
November 1– Complete K Diagnostics
November 30 – Notification to Parents
November 30 – Update K-3 Records in Scholarship Websystem
November 30 – Reading Intervention Monitoring Plans in Place
60 days from diagnostic assessment
October 23 – Grade 3 ELA Test
December 18 – Grade 3 IOWA F or other alternative assessment
April – Grade 3 ELA
May – Grade 3 IOWA F or other assessment
May 30 - Update Gr 3 Records in Scholarship Websystem
July - Grade 3 ELA and Grade 3 IOWA F or other alternative assessment

34. Questions?

35. RIMPS

36. RIMP should – Individualized Identify not on track status of students
Identify areas of weakness
Method of addressing weakness or weaknesses
Data that shows monitoring of growth in weak area
Documentation of notification to parents
Document special strengths/training of teacher(s) providing intervention

37. Plan should NOT - simply describe what all students receive
describe services of Title I Teacher

38. State Template
Youngstown
Brunswick

39. Questions?

40. Parent notification

41. Parents must be notified
Parents Must Be Notified of Reading Deficiency & Possible Retention in Grade 3
Parents of K-3 students determined to be NOT ON TRACK must be notified in writing of
their child’s reading status,
their child’s need for intensive reading intervention, and
the possibility of retention at grade 3.
For grade 3 students who have not earned a promotion score by January -
Parents must be informed in writing that the retention decision may have to be made after the end of the school year when state spring results arrive or even later in the summer if the student can not be promoted with the state spring scores do arrive.

42. Parents must be notified
Sample letters can be found here.

43. Questions?

44. Exempt students

45. Exempt students Some students can be exempt from participation.
Some students can be exempt ONLY from retention.

46. Exempt students from all TGRG
All students are expected to be reading at grade level when entering grade 4. However, some students are . . .
Exempt from TGRG Participation
Non-state scholarship students
All non-state scholarship students
State scholarship students
Autism state scholarship students
Jon Peterson state scholarship students
Ed Choice alternate assessment state scholarship students
Ed Choice ISP students with a significant cognitive disability whose ISP team exempts from participation

47. Exempt students from all TGRG
Even though non-state scholarship students should be served and monitored using the same guidelines as scholarship students they are not governed by the legislation and are not required to earn a promotion score in grade 3.

48. Exempt students Only from retention
Grade 3 Ed Choice ISP Students
whose ISP team documents the rationale for the retention exemption in the ISP.
Grade 3 Ed Choice EL Students
who have been in a US school for less than 3 school years and who have had less than 3 full years of instruction in an English as a Second Language Program are exempt from the TGRG retention requirement
Grade 3 Ed Choice Retained Students
who have already been retained at least 1 school year and have received 2 years of intensive reading intervention are exempt from the TGRG retention requirement.

49. Exemption from state testing
Exemption from TGRG participation or retention is NOT the same as an exemption from regular state testing.
The only students exempt from state testing are autism state scholarship students.

50. Questions?

51. Mid-year promotion for retained students
Link – New FAQ

52. Mid-Year promotion
Mid-Year Promotion is ONLY for the student you believe – despite the TGRG guidelines – should be promoted
Who should this be?
Students performing at grade level in other areas of instruction
Link – New FAQ

53. Questions?

54. The end