Third Grade Parent Night Powerpoint 2015

Welcome to ODES
Third Grade Parent Night
Navigating the FSA
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Third Grade Promotion
S  In January of 2003, the Florida Legislature passed a law
requiring third graders to meet the State of Florida’s
expectations in reading to be promoted to fourth grade.
S  Section 1008.25(5), Florida Statutes (F.S.)
Florida Standards Assessment
Third grade students will test on the following days:
ELA on Wednesday, March 25 and Thursday, March 26
Math on Wednesday, April 1 and Thursday, April 2
Each test session is 80 minutes long.
Criteria for Promotion
S  Students must score a Level 2 or higher on the ELA Florida
Standards Assessment.
S  All students scoring Level 1 will be retained unless they
qualify for a good cause exemption.
Good Cause Exemptions from Mandatory
Retention
S  Students with disabilities (IEP or 504), who received 2 yrs.
Intensive reading remediation AND 1 grade retention
S  Students who have received 2 years of intensive reading
remediation AND have been retained two times (a student
was retained in KG and once in 3rd)
S  Students who are considered to be “Limited English
Proficient” with less than 2 years in an ESOL program
Good Cause Exemptions from Mandatory
Retention
S  Students with disabilities, whose IEP indicates participation
in FSA is inappropriate
S  Acceptable score on SAT-10: > 45 percentile
S  Student Portfolio: Students scoring “on grade level” in
reading on specific state approved documents . For each
standard there must be at least three examples of mastery
with a grade of 70% or higher on each document
Extended School Year
S  Students who score a Level 1 on the ELA FSA will be
invited to Extended School Year. This includes students
receiving a Good Cause Exemption
S  ESY typically runs ½ days from mid June to the end of July
(6 weeks)
S  Students will receive grade level instruction, skill practice,
conferencing, flexible small group instruction and ongoing
progress monitoring
How Do I Know If My Child
Is Ready for the 3rd Grade FSA?
S  Communicate with your child’s teacher
S  Keep informed about your child’s assessment results and
academic progress
S  Stay in close contact with the school, look at the data, ask
questions, read emails from your child’s teacher, ask for
specific things you can do to reinforce what’s happening in
the classroom.
Read to Learn Brochure
S  http://www.justreadflorida.com/pdf/ReadToLearn.pdf
How Can I Prepare My Child For
the FSA
FSA PARENT BROCHURE
http://www.fsassessments.org/wp-content/uploads/
2014/09/Florida-Family-Brochure-v6-2.pdf
FSA STUDENT & PARENT
RESOURCES: Documents
and Training Tests
http://www.fsassessments.org/students-and-parents
Questions
S  Record your questions
on a sticky note and post
them on the Parking Lot.