Break Request Wearable Ring Cards for Special Education

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages

• 5 cut-apart ring cards, 2 inches square: the three signal levels (green, yellow, red) and the two-part break pass (Break Pass, I'm Back), punched for a one-inch book ring
• Every card twice: a full-color set for the ring and a black-and-white ink-saver set for a spare ring or a second adult
• A "what each card is for, and what to say" reference printed right on the ring sheet, plus a card explaining the two pass cards that come off the ring when used
• 12 blank ring cards with a type-in word line, for a fourth color or any signal the five-card set does not cover
• A how-to page: building the ring, why the two pass cards come off the ring (unlike every other card, which stays threaded and is flipped through), showing a signal, what the colors do not decide, one ring for several adults, what this ring is and is not, sending it home and handing it off
• A Signal and Break Ring Log (16 rows: date, time, level shown, pass used, duration, returned to green on own, initials)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a percent-of-passes-returned-on-own graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one day and three weeks on the roll-up, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family page with all five cards, a "say it" reference table, and a week of home tries to initial
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional, specials teacher or substitute carries the same ring the same way
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for the signal and the pass, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 11 labels and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

The posted board version of this same five-card system (a MY SIGNAL slot, a PASS slot, desk-size duplicates) stays where it is posted. This file prints no board at all: the same five cards, cut small, punched near the top edge and threaded onto a one-inch book ring, so the whole small system travels on a lanyard or belt clip with whoever is wearing it — into the hallway, the cafeteria, specials, a fire-drill line, or anywhere a posted version is not within reach.

THE CARDS (reused verbatim from the posted version, same words and pictures)

1. Green — "I'm okay"

2. Yellow — "I need a minute"

3. Red — "I need a break now"

4. Break Pass — handed over at a RED signal

5. I'm Back — handed over when the break ends

Unlike every other ring card in this collection, the two pass cards are not shown by flipping to them: because a one-inch metal book ring opens, the Break Pass and I'm Back cards come OFF the ring when used — unclipped, handed to the adult, and clipped back on when the cycle ends — while the three signal cards stay threaded and are shown the ordinary way, by flipping to the matching color.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The card sheet prints on cardstock or plain paper, cuts along dashed lines, and punches near the top edge for a one-inch book ring (sold separately). It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a way for an adult to carry the same three-color signal and two-part break pass a posted version already uses, so it travels from room to room, and to write down whether a student returned to green without a second prompt. It is not a behavior plan, a therapy technique or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It does not say how long a break lasts or who may approve one, supplies no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule, and names no specific feeling a student must be having. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, paraprofessionals and specials teachers who already use the three-color break signal and need it to travel with a roving adult — the hallway monitor, the cafeteria duty staff, the specials teacher, the substitute — plus the case managers who need that use to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

This single sits alongside Leveled Break Request Cards (the posted board version of the same five cards), Lanyard Cue Cards for Special Education (the same ring mechanic for an interchangeable calm-down choice bank), and Calm-Down Steps Wearable Ring Cards for Special Education (the same ring mechanic forked onto a fixed four-step sequence); more picture-card sets — schedule cards, routine strips, choice boards — are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.