Feelings Intensity Wearable Ring Cards for Special Education

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 20 pages

• 10 cut-apart ring cards, 2 inches square: two full sets of the same five feelings intensity levels, in order (1 Tiny, 2 Small, 3 Medium, 4 Big, 5 Huge — each card prints the picture and the level word, not a number), 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 shows, and what to say" reference page (plus a quick picture index), shared by both the color and the ink-saver ring sheets since the table does not change between them
• 12 blank ring cards with a type-in word line, for a feeling word in a student's own language or an alternate word for a level
• A how-to page: building the ring (cut, punch, thread, in number order), why the order matters on this ring, showing a level, when a check-in surprises you, what the cards stand for, one ring for several adults, what this ring is and is not, sending it home and handing it off
• A Feelings Intensity Check-In Ring Log (16 rows: the time, feeling named, level picked 1–5, how the check-in happened, where, and notes)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a check-in count graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one day and three weeks on the roll-up, every number re-counted from its own row
• A family page with the same five levels to point to at home 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: 20 lines in 5 groups (spoken lines for showing a card at each level, 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 poster-and-board version of this same five-level scale stays where it is posted. This file prints no poster and no board: the same five level cards (1 Tiny, 2 Small, 3 Medium, 4 Big, 5 Huge — picture and word on each card, no printed number), cut small, punched near the top edge and threaded onto a one-inch book ring, so the scale travels on a lanyard or belt clip with the adult who is carrying it — into the classroom, specials, the hallway, the cafeteria, or anywhere a posted chart is not within reach.

THE LEVELS (reused verbatim from the poster-and-board version, same words, pictures and descriptions)

1. Tiny — barely notice it; calm face and body

2. Small — notice it, still easy; a little fidgety or quiet

3. Medium — hard to ignore; louder voice or more movement

4. Big — hard to think about anything else; fast breathing or raised voice

5. Huge — the biggest it gets; very hard to talk, listen, or stay still

Unlike a bank of interchangeable cue cards, these five levels go in the same number order every time, so the ring sheet prints the same five cards twice (ten cut pieces total) rather than splitting them across two sheets: thread the first set, then the second, in order (1 to 5), and flipping front to back through the ring from 1 to 5 IS the scale.

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 five-level scale a posted chart already teaches, so it travels from room to room and settings, and to write down the feeling and level a student picked at every check-in. It is not a behavior plan, a therapy technique or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It does not say why a feeling was picked or what a number means, and a higher number is never treated as "worse" than a lower one. 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 teach the five-level feelings intensity scale and need it to travel with a roving adult — the small-group instructor, the specials teacher, the substitute — or to carry into moments and settings where a posted chart is out of reach, 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 Feelings Intensity Scale Cards and Log (the posted version of the same five levels with check-in board), Lanyard Cue Cards for Special Education (the same ring mechanic for an interchangeable calm-down choice bank), and Calm-Down Choice Cards for Special Education; 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.