Understanding Your Child's Results

 
Understanding Results

Understand Your Child's Results

 

Use this page to understand your child's Multitudes screening result, percentile score, and the reading skills measured.

Your child's report may look like this:

Example of a Multitudes child screening results report
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A screening result is not a diagnosis or a label.

It is one piece of information that helps your child's teacher understand how their reading skills are developing and whether some skills may need additional attention. Teachers consider screening results along with classroom learning and other information.

Screening Result

What does my child's screening result mean?

Your child's report will show one of the following screening results.

On Target

Your child's reading skills are developing as expected at this point in the school year. Their teacher will continue teaching these skills and monitoring their progress.

Support Needed

Your child's screening results suggest that some reading skills may need additional attention. This does not diagnose a reading disability. Your child's teacher will consider these results along with other information to determine what instruction or support may be helpful.

Incomplete

Incomplete means your child did not finish all parts of the screening. Your child's school or teacher can let you know whether any additional screening is needed.

 
Percentile Scores

What does my child's percentile score mean?

A percentile is not a grade or the percentage of questions your child answered correctly.

A percentile compares your child's score with the scores of other students in the same grade.

67th
Percentile

A score at the 67th percentile means your child's score was higher than 67 out of 100 students in the same grade.

Reading Skills

What does Multitudes measure?

Multitudes looks at several skills that are important as children learn to read. Your child's report may include information about the following areas.

 

Language / Vocabulary

Understanding and using words and language to communicate ideas and understand what others say.

 

Phonological Awareness

Hearing and working with the sounds in spoken words, such as noticing rhymes or the first sound in a word.

 

Alphabetic Knowledge

Knowing letters and understanding how letters connect to the sounds in spoken words.

 

Processing Speed

How efficiently a child can recognize and respond to familiar information.

 

Reading and Spelling

Using knowledge of letters, sounds, and words to read and spell.

Next Steps

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Learn what happens after screening, find ways to support your child's language and literacy development, or learn more about Multitudes.

After Screening

Learn what happens after a child is screened, how schools use screening information, and how support can change as children learn and grow.

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Supporting Your Child

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About Multitudes

Learn what Multitudes is, why schools use reading screening, and what your child experiences during the screening.

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