Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3301 - Department of Education - Administration and Director › Chapter 3301-33 - Phonics › Section 3301-33-01 - Rule for phonics

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								This rule
			 contains the minimum standards requiring the use of phonics as a technique in
			 the teaching of reading in grades kindergarten through three. Phonics
			 instruction is necessary for fluent reading and directly supports the
			 comprehension of text but is not sufficient on its own to develop proficient or
			 advanced readers. Instruction is also needed to advance student knowledge of
			 vocabulary, background knowledge, language structures, verbal reasoning and
			 literacy knowledge.
(B)
								Definitions
(1)
									"Advanced phonics" means the knowledge and strategies
			 used to decode multisyllabic words, including syllabication, morphology and
			 information about the meaning, pronunciation and parts of speech of words
			 gained from knowledge of prefixes, roots and suffixes.
(2)
									"Decodable text"
			 means texts with highly controlled vocabulary that are carefully sequenced to
			 include letter sound relationships and high frequency words that have
			 previously been taught.
(3)
									"Differentiated" means designing and delivering
			 instruction to meet individual needs.
(4)
									"Explicit
			 instruction" means a teacher directed and systematic instructional approach
			 that includes specific components of delivery and design of instruction such as
			 review of previous content, step by step demonstrations, clear language,
			 adequate range of examples, frequent student responses, monitoring of student
			 progress, feedback to students and multiple opportunities for practice, both
			 guided and independent. This practice includes distributed and cumulative
			 practice. This practice does not make assumptions that learners will acquire
			 skills and knowledge on their own.
(5)
									"Intervention-based diagnostic measures" means assessment
			 used to identify where a student is on an instructional continuum and specifies
			 next steps in instruction. These assessments may be placement tests within an
			 instructional program or may be informal measures not associated with a
			 specific instructional program.
(6)
									"Phoneme grapheme
			 mapping" means evidence-based practice and instructional activity that helps
			 the reader build word recognition skills by connecting the sounds (phonemes) to
			 the letters (graphemes) in printed words.
(7)
									"Systematic
			 Phonics" means directly teaching children that letters represent the sounds of
			 spoken language and that there is an organized, logical, and predictable
			 relationship between written letters and spoken sounds. When children are
			 explicitly taught the relationship between sounds (phonemes) and the letters
			 (graphemes) that represent those sounds, they can apply these principles to
			 both familiar and unfamiliar words.
(8)
									"Phonics" is a
			 way of teaching reading that stresses the acquisition of letter-sound
			 correspondences and their use in reading and spelling.