Understanding Your Child's Score
Learn About Your Child’s Ratings in the TELPAS Alternate Report Card
Every student who takes the TELPAS Alternate test receives a TELPAS Alternate Report Card that helps parents see where their child is doing well and where he or she may need extra help.
A Walkthrough of the TELPAS Alternate Report Card
No matter what grade your child is in, this grade 8 sample report will help you read the report, understand your child's TELPAS Alternate results and see his or her progress from the previous year.
The Sample TELPAS Alternate Report Card Is Available in Multiple Languages
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How To Understand Performance
Here are the TELPAS Alternate proficiency levels and what they mean:
Basic Fluency
Students who receive this rating understand and produce more detailed, complex, and elaborate messages with multiple sentences in English. These students participate independently in communication activities in English in familiar environments.
Developing Independence
Students who receive this rating understand longer messages of multiple sentences in English and produce simple, descriptive, original messages by combining two or more words (e.g., new red bike, big fast truck). They participate meaningfully in linguistically accommodated communication activities in English in familiar environments.
Early Independence
Students who receive this rating understand short, simple messages and produce messages of one or two high-need, high-frequency words (e.g., book, cafeteria, teacher). They are starting to participate in linguistically accommodated communication activities in English in familiar environments.
Imitation
Students who receive this rating match, imitate, or approximate some English in their environment; however, they are not able to independently understand or produce English. They participate in routine communication activities in a familiar environment when the activities are significantly linguistically accommodated.
Awareness
Students who receive this rating may be aware of English sounds or print; however, they have little or no functional ability to participate in communication activities in English.
Helpful Links
Check out the links below to quickly get where you need to go:
STAAR Alternate 2, TELPAS, and TELPAS Alternate Resources
Special Education Information and Call Center
Supplemental Special Education Services (SSES)
This program gives one-time $1500 grants to families of students served by special education.
