The Reading Assessment Program Guide for Grade 3 focuses on how to assess students’ progress in reading comprehension and fluency/decoding throughout the school year. It includes:

• Guidelines on how to assess and use the Reading Passages
• Grade-specific rubrics
• Blackline masters
• Four levelled Reading Passages

The four levelled Reading Passages include:

• Vikings/Exploring and Ancient Society, an early-term title with a social studies topic; readability 3.2
• Plant Life Cycles/Growth and Change in Plants, a mid-term title with a science topic; readability 3.4
• Structures/Materials and Structures, a mid-term title with a science topic; readability 3.6
• Citizenship: The Seven Teachings of Ojibwas People/Connecting with Canadians, a late-term title with a social studies topic; readability 3.9

Reading and Assessment Program Guide is one title in the Tools for Instruction and Reading Assessment series. The series consists of twenty-four books that are companion pieces to Teaching to Diversity: The Three Block Model of Universal Design for Learning by Dr. Katz.