**For Kindergarten Parents**

A Family Guide
to Understanding
Early Reading Skills

An Explanation of
The Kindergarten Readiness Assessment – Literacy (KRA-L)

The Third Grade Guarantee

Recent legislation strengthened the longstanding Third Grade Guarantee (once called the Fourth Grade Guarantee) to give a greater emphasis to reading instruction and intervention in the early grades. Through this initiative, school districts and community schools will diagnose reading deficiencies in students at grades kindergarten through three, create individualized reading improvement and monitoring plans, and provide intensive reading interventions.

ODE also created a section on its website to serve as a collection of resources for administrators, educators, and parents. Additional resources will be added as more information becomes available. To view these resources, click here to visit ODE’s website and search "Third Grade Reading Guarantee".

*****Important Information for Parents of 3rd and 4th Grade Students*****
Ohio Achievement Assessments

Web Sites for Teachers, Parents,and Kids
a comprehensive list of web sites for many subjects

MSS Library Online

List of Accelerated Reader Book Tests
This will  help you choose books for your child at the library and for purchase.
(This is an old list. Many books have been added.)