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IREAD Parent Information Meeting

November 1, 2024

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IREAD3

  • Required of All Second and Third Graders
  • Indiana House Enrolled Act 1367, also known as PL109 in 2010, designed to ensure all students can read before accessing fourth grade reading/literacy instruction.
  • Based on K-3 foundational skills in reading.
  • IREAD-3 measures whether a student can read
  • IRead-3 is an adaptive test that is not timed
  • If students have Passed in 2nd Grade, they will not take IREAD-3 in 3rd Grade.

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IREAD3

  • Has your child passed in 2nd Grade?

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  • You can Log into Skyward

for your child’s results.

  • Go to Portfolio.
  • Attachments
  • IREAD3- 2023-2024

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IREAD3

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  • IREAD will be administered the week of: March 3rd - March 14th, 2025

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  • Results will be posted in Skyward the week of March 24th 2025

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IREAD3

  • School City of Hobart - Did Not Pass:

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    • 2nd grade students: teacher will target skills to remediate, possible intervention group, will test again in 3rd grade.

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    • 3rd grade students: DNP will receive remediation in an intervention group, required (see next slide) to participate in Summer School in June and re-test in Summer School the last week of June.

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    • A second DNP will possibly result in retention in 3rd grade.

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Summer School in Response to SOR Bill

  • New Requirement: The memo from Lynn Schemel, Chief Academic Officer with the IDOE, outlines the requirements of Senate Enrolled Act (SEA) 1 (2024), which states that beginning in the summer of 2025, schools are required to offer summer school courses for students who are not reading proficient or are at risk of not being reading proficient
  • SEA 1 applies to :
    • Students in grade two who score “At Risk”; and,
    • Students in grade three who score “Did Not Pass”

Summer School Reimbursement:

  • The bill requires the State Board of Education to give priority reimbursement to summer school programming that is provided to students in second or third grade that are at risk of not being reading proficient or are not reading proficient
  • The bill is not expected to increase total state expenditures for summer school, as HEA 1001-2023 appropriated $18.36 M in both FY24 and FY25 for summer school and specified that to the extent costs would exceed that amount, DOE must proportionately reduce the grants distributed to stay within the appropriation
  • All of the summer school appropriation will likely be used under current law

@EducateIN

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IREAD 3

More information can be found on the

Indiana Department of Education Website -

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Sample items:

IREAD3 link to the IDOE Assessment Page

Practice: IREAD Assessment Portal: Released Items Repository (no log-in required)

SCOH IREAD and ILEARN Information

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IREAD Assessment Segments:

  • Practice test

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  • Segment 1- Reading Foundations and Vocabulary

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  • Segment 2- Reading Comprehension

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  • Segment 3- Reading Comprehension

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Terminology classes will be reviewing:

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Phoneme sounds in words: Your child will be asked to find words with the same beginning, vowel, and ending sounds. These will often NOT look the same. For example, ring and wrong have the same beginning sounds. Work and hurt have the same middle sounds. Walked and hit have the same ending sounds.

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Context Clues: Your child will have to use clues to figure out the missing word in the sentence. Think "fill in the blank" activities.

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Word Parts (affixes): Your child will have to identify the prefix or suffix added to a base word. For example, the suffix in walking is ing. The prefix in redo is re.

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Homographs: These are two words that are spelled the same, but not always pronounced the same. They also have different meanings. For example:

We went swimming in the pool. There was a pool of oil under the car.

The wind blew hard against the house. Mom asked me to wind the clock.

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Synonyms: These are words that mean the same thing, such as dull and dark.

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Antonyms: These are words that mean the opposite, such as dull and bright.

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Reading Comprehension

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THANK YOU FOR COMING

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Decades of research show that when parents are involved students have:

      • Higher grades, test scores, and graduation rates
      • Better school attendance
      • Lower rates of suspension
      • Decreased use of drugs and alcohol
      • Fewer instances of violent behavior

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Final_Parent_Involvement_Fact_Sheet_14732_7.pdf

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If you have questions, please reach out to your building principal.