Report card formats used by school districts in primary and elementary grades typically include assessment criteria which indicate how well the child is progressing toward mastery of specified skill. Examples of assessment criteria from a report card used for third-grade reading are show in figure 9.3 Children are rated card as “not yet” “emerging” or “achieved” on each of the six criteria related to reading A child who occasionally exhibited the skill but had not yet mastered it or who failed to use it consistently.