The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade ...

Third grade reading policies notwithstanding, the number of K-12 students being retained may have peaked. A 2014 analysis in Educational Researcher found that the retention rate across all 50 ...

Nearly a quarter of third graders did not pass the state’s reading test on their first try. Many are now in summer school, ...

Read a passage from the third-grade reading test called “Secrets Are Hard to Keep” and answer the six questions that students were tested on.

The Third Grade Reading Guarantee isn’t the only literacy-related issue before lawmakers. The General Assembly is also studying DeWine’s budget proposal to transition all public school ...

The third-grade ELA portion of the M-STEP also includes answering questions about a longer passage, writing paragraphs and matching notes with main ideas, for example. How did you do?

(See list below: top, bottom school districts on reading test passage rates) The Literacy Based Promotion Act requires third-graders to obtain a certain reading score to advance to fourth grade.

There are nine questions total with three reading passages. The questions start at third-grade level and increase in difficulty up to fifth-grade level. Good luck!

The researchers found that in every one of Ohio’s 611 school districts, the Third Grade Reading Guarantee passage rates were higher than the fourth-grade English Language Arts proficiency rates.