3rd Grade Special Education Professional Documents

Enhance your students' decoding skills with this comprehensive Informal Decoding Inventory designed for both one and multisyllabic words.

Perfect for educators and special education professionals, this inventory spans 8 pages and is tailored to monitor IEP goals and objectives .

Each section provides targeted practice for different phonetic patterns, empowering students to strengthen their reading proficiency.

Included List:

• Short Vowels
• Consonant Blends and Digraphs
• Vowel–Consonant–e
• r-Controlled Vowel Patterns
• Vowel Teams
• Compound Words
• Closed Syllables
• Open Syllables
• Vowel–Consonant–e Syllables
• r-Controlled Syllables
• Vowel Team Syllables
• Consonant–le Syllables

This guide was created for parents/guardians, general education teachers, and providers that may work with a child who is hard of hearing or Deaf.

This document covers the following:

• what hearing loss is
• wearing hearing aids and cochlear implants - users can wear one hearing aid and one cochlear implant, one hearing aid, etc.
• what hearing aids and cochlear implants are and how this relates with the outer ear, ear canal, and eardrum. This product also explains what the cochlear and auditory nerve are.
• This product review the three main parts of hearing aids - microphone, amplifier, and speaker.
• What hearing aids are and what they are not will be reviewed in this product as well.
• The parts of a hearing aid and the parts of a cochlear implant are reviewed.
• The differences between a cochlear implant and a hear aid are reviewed.
• Sound fields and FM systems (frequency modulated system) are reviewed.
• Hearing tests and who sees someone for a hearing test.
• The decibel scale is reviewed.
• The importance of protecting your ears.

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A Guide to Understanding the IEP

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/A-Guide-to-Understanding-the-IEP-9875413

This product includes:

-Both digital and print student/teacher assessments for all Dolch sight words (the preprimer through the 3rd grade list)

-A classroom editable data collection checklists that automatically totals the number of sight words each student got correct as well as how many students got each sight word correct.

-Individual student editable progress monitoring checklists that automatically totals the number of sight words the student got correct from each list and generates a graph from that data.

Save valuable time and energy with these easy to use, editable and automatic tools! Each spread sheet can be printed; looking professional, easy to read and organized. This would be a valuable tool to use for elementary teachers and special education teachers. This data can be used as an intervention tools, progress monitoring, a visual representation for parents during parent teacher conferences, etc.

Executive Functioning Skills Checklist for 3rd-5th: A Comprehensive Tool for Special Education Professionals

This checklist is crafted to help special education professionals and behavior specialists assess and support elementary students in 3rd-5th grades across 12 essential executive functioning areas. With age-appropriate subskills, interventions, and sample goals for IEP, FBA, and BIP plans, this checklist is your go-to tool for helping students develop the skills they need to succeed academically and socially. From managing materials to handling emotional regulation and staying focused, this checklist equips educators with a clear pathway for addressing executive function deficits.

What Problem Does This Solve?
In 3rd-5th grades, executive functioning skills become increasingly critical as students face more complex assignments, shifting social dynamics, and growing responsibilities. Students with deficits in these areas may struggle with organization, impulse control, persistence, or following multi-step instructions. This checklist provides a structured method for identifying and addressing these needs, offering targeted interventions to build skills that are essential for learning and social interaction.

Who This Helps
Designed for teachers, specialists, and support staff working with 3rd-5th graders, this checklist is an invaluable tool for educators looking to support students who may have challenges in one or more executive functioning areas. Whether you are developing IEP goals, conducting an FBA, or creating a BIP, this checklist provides insight into students’ current skills and highlights areas that may need more focused support.

Time-Saving Solution
With this checklist, educators receive structured interventions and measurable sample goals tailored for elementary students. By providing pre-developed goals and interventions, this tool saves valuable time, allowing educators to focus on what matters most: supporting student growth. The clear, organized structure of the checklist allows teachers to efficiently assess each student’s needs, implement interventions, and track progress over time.

What’s Included?

• 12 Executive Functioning Areas: Comprehensive coverage of planning, organization, emotional regulation, and more.

• Age-Appropriate Subskills: Specific subskills tailored to 3rd-5th grade developmental levels, making assessment targeted and relevant.

• Targeted Interventions: Developmentally appropriate interventions that educators can implement or adapt as needed.

• Measurable Goals: Sample goals designed for IEP, FBA, and BIP plans to support individualized student needs.

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If you want to take it a step further and progress monitor these (or any) behavior goals, consider the Behavior Progress Monitoring Tracking Sheet + Graphing Bundle. This companion product makes it easy to track and graph behaviors like frequency, rate, and duration, while providing valuable visual data for informed decision-making in IEPs and BIPs.

Blog Posts to Learn More About Behavior Data Collection

• How to Use Behavioral Baseline Data to Promote and Measure Student Growth
• How to Use Frequency Count in Excel to Progress Monitor Classroom Behavior
• Duration of Behavior: How to Use Duration Count to Effectively Track Student Behavior
• Interval Graphing for Student Success: A Step-by-Step Guide for Educators
• Behavioral Progress Tracking: The Power of Rate Graphs in Education

Not sure what kind of data collection you need? Take a look at my FREE Resource, Data Collection for Behavior, which will walk you through various types of data collection, how to use them, and which types of behavior each data collection method is best suited to.

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Knowing what signs indicate sensory needs is imperative for adults working with students with autism or sensory processing disorders. This poster gives indicators of ONE type of sensory need 'vestibular'. It also pairs signs that a student may be over or underresponsive to vestibular sensory and activities to help the student self-regulate under either circumstance. Check out my Sensory Room Bundle for a complete sensory room setup including seven more posters like this one, mini-visual schedules for the sensory room, rules for the sensory room visual poster, and science standards that are aligned to sensory activities.

This guide was created for parents/guardians and general education teachers to better understand an individualized education plan, why it is created, and what the point of this document is.

This document covers the following:

• history of the IEP and how it came about
• what an IEP is
• the importance of an IEP
• related service providers involved in writing the IEP
• parents/guardians concerns about their child having an IEP
• what you may think an IEP is or common misconceptions about what an IEP is
• a break down of all parts that are included in an IEP which also includes an example student where all parts of the IEP are filled out to give the reader a better understanding of what an IEP is
• The present levels of academic performance, management needs, social needs, physical needs, strengths, annual goals, special education program, and testing accommodations are covered in this product.
• 13 learning disabilities by IDEA list
• Examples of accommodations list
• Comparing a 504 with an IEP and how they are different, what they are, what they do, who is eligible, who creates each document, and what is in each document

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Deaf Education A Guide to Understanding Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Deaf-Education-A-Guide-to-Understanding-Hearing-Aids-and-Cochlear-Implants-11101428

This Special Education Lesson Plan and Scope and Sequence for Elementary Math is based on state standards and has three levels of activities your students can work on for each standard; this takes all the struggle out of differentiating! You can stop worrying about when to teach what and do what you do best- TEACH! Be sure to check out the preview provided.

Check out the Science Scope and Sequence Here

This is a fifteen-page guide to getting started in a self-contained special education or life skills classroom. Included are descriptions, helpful hints, and pictures from actual classrooms.

The following topics are covered:

Scheduling

Lesson Planning

Classroom Management

Classroom Setup

Communication

Sensory

Testing

Prompt Hierarchy

Paraprofessionals

When a new student comes to class there are several things that take priority to everything else. I made this document after enrolling several new students this year. It has simplified my life tremendously by having a guide to go by when speaking with parents of new students. It also helps tremendously to fill out one of these on each student at the beginning of the year so that paras and teachers have a quick guide to go by per student.

This executive functioning student planner and student to-do list is perfect for students who need checklists, homework reminders, to-do lists, reminders of materials needed and so much more! This student planner will keep students on track with homework, assignments, grades, login information, class materials, schedules, note taking, and so much more! Also included are two pages with helpful hints for organization and time management. For customization there are four cover options and five quote pages to add at the end or throughout the planner.

Simply pick the pages that would best benefit your students and print. All pages are in black/gray to allow easy printing to any printer.

Pages Included:

• 4 Planner Covers
• 2 Executive Functioning Helpful Strategies Pages
• Monthly, Weekly, and Daily Planning Pages
• Class List, Class Schedule, Class Materials Needed
• Class Notetaking Page,
• Test Timetable, Test Tracker, Test Schedule
• Homework Tracker, Study Tracker
• Assignment Tracker, Assignment Ledger, Grade Tracker
• Project Planner, Group Project Contact List
• Class To-Do List, Weekly Task Tracker, Weekly To-Do Schedule
• Assigned Reading, Book List
• Class Goals, Goal Tracker, Academic Achievement Tracker
• Monthly Dashboards
• Online App/Login Passwords
• To Do List, Checklists, Journal, Note Pages
• Idea Mapping and Mind Mapping
• 5 Inspirational Quote Pages