The BlackPrint is built on a simple truth: struggling readers do not need guesswork; they need precise diagnosis, explicit instruction, and culturally affirming materials that help them see themselves as capable readers, thinkers, and leaders.
Sample score report
496
Scale score
Grade 3 · Spring window
Proficient for Grade 3
Placement is criterion-referenced to Missouri Learning Standards grade-level expectations, not to a national percentile.
The BlackPrint helps students build the essential reading skills they need to become strong, confident readers. Through targeted instruction in phonics, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, students receive support based on their individual literacy needs.
We do more than assign reading practice. We identify the specific skill gaps students need to strengthen and provide teachers with clear tools to help close them.
The BlackPrint believes children should see themselves in what they read and learn. Our platform centers culturally affirming texts, examples, and learning experiences that reflect the identity, brilliance, history, and lived experiences of struggling readers.
When students feel seen, valued, and connected to their learning, they are more engaged, confident, and prepared to grow.
The BlackPrint is designed to move students forward. Using diagnostic data, the platform creates a clear path for instruction, small-group support, and measurable reading progress.
Our goal is not just for students to complete lessons. Our goal is for students to grow as readers, thinkers, and leaders.
The BlackPrint combines skill-based literacy instruction with culturally affirming learning experiences to help struggling readers build confidence, strengthen reading skills, and thrive.
These figures are illustrative sample data, not results from any real school. They show how The BlackPrint turns every assessment into schoolwide and grade-level intelligence a teacher can act on today.
Sample schoolwide snapshot
Students screened
6
Across all grades
Average scale score
457
Criterion-referenced to MLS
On or above grade level
33%
Proficient + Advanced
Below basic
17%
Need urgent intervention
Placement breakdown
Top skill gaps
% of students performing below their grade expectation
Every domain reports its own scale score and placement level, because a single reading number hides exactly the information a teacher needs.
Hearing, isolating, blending, and segmenting the sounds inside spoken words — before print is involved.
Reading Foundations 2.A — Phonemic Awareness (K-1)
Letter-sound correspondences, short and long vowels, blends, digraphs, and spelling patterns.
Reading Foundations 1.A & 3.A — Print Awareness and Phonics (K-5)
Applying patterns to read unfamiliar and multisyllabic words, plus irregular high-frequency words.
Reading Foundations 3.A — Phonics/Decoding (K-5)
Rate, accuracy, expression, and phrasing — reading smoothly enough that attention is free for meaning.
Reading Foundations 4.A — Fluency (K-5)
Word meaning from context, academic vocabulary, inference, retelling, and monitoring understanding.
Reading 1.A & 1.B — Comprehension and Vocabulary (K-5)
Prefixes, suffixes, roots, inflectional endings, and how word parts carry meaning.
Reading 1.B & Reading Foundations 3.A — Affixes and Roots (1-5)
Every scale score and placement level is criterion-referenced to the Missouri Learning Standards (ELA K-5, SBOE 2016). The diagnostic translates each strand into a clear, actionable learning target.
Reading Foundations 2.A — Phonemic Awareness (K-1)
Hearing, isolating, blending, and segmenting the sounds inside spoken words — before print is involved.
Reading Foundations 1.A & 3.A — Print Awareness and Phonics (K-5)
Letter-sound correspondences, short and long vowels, blends, digraphs, and spelling patterns.
Reading Foundations 3.A — Phonics/Decoding (K-5)
Applying patterns to read unfamiliar and multisyllabic words, plus irregular high-frequency words.
Reading Foundations 4.A — Fluency (K-5)
Rate, accuracy, expression, and phrasing — reading smoothly enough that attention is free for meaning.
Reading 1.A & 1.B — Comprehension and Vocabulary (K-5)
Word meaning from context, academic vocabulary, inference, retelling, and monitoring understanding.
Reading 1.B & Reading Foundations 3.A — Affixes and Roots (1-5)
Prefixes, suffixes, roots, inflectional endings, and how word parts carry meaning.
A computer-adaptive screener steps up and down within each of six domains, so a 3rd grader who needs 1st grade phonics is found in minutes — not months.
Results map to curated lessons with an entry point, a standard, and materials that reflect the children in the room.
Scale scores and placement levels are tracked across windows so families see movement, not just labels.
Every learner is paired with a teacher who sees the same dashboard and owns the next step.
