Figurative Language Idiom Simile Metaphor Data Sheets Editable

About this resource

Everything inside: 24 pages, 855 type-in fields · a trended session sheet for idiom interpretation and a separate one for metaphor interpretation, each with a 10-trial grid and a sample 10-item bank · a per-item simile identification sheet with two separate yes/no judgments, a genuinely different shape from the other two · a quick combined daily check · a within-session frequency chart with a 4-session quick-trend table · a whole-caseload roster · a binder cover and 4 cut-out tabs · a 3-skill, 12-session tracker and graph · a quarterly summary · a family update · a 20-starter phrase bank · a plain-language paraprofessional/classroom form · a worked, invented example.

Speech-language pathologists and special educators are asked to show whether an idiom, simile or metaphor goal is changing, across however many students are on a caseload — not just whether one goal's six forms were run, and not spread across a six-domain pack that also carries synonyms, antonyms, word categories, multiple-meaning words and word-family production. This file is the figurative-language-only slice: run the idiom sheet, the metaphor sheet, the simile sheet, or the quick combined check, mark what the response actually was, add the session up on one chart, and roll it into a report and a family update that write themselves. Idiom and metaphor interpretation use a trended, repeated-trial grid; simile identification uses its own per-item, single-session sheet with two separate judgments — because naming what two things are being compared is a different task from interpreting a whole-sentence figurative meaning, and collapsing both into one grid would hide which half of the skill is missing. Every mark on every page says only whether a response matched the intended meaning (or, on the simile sheet, the comparison) as judged that session — never a score against a published norm, a name for a condition, or a rule for when a referral is warranted.

WHAT IS INCLUDED — 24 pages

Set Up The Caseload

• Code Key: Recording Marks, Domains and Levels — 4 response marks (+/−/SC/NR) used on the idiom and metaphor sheets, 3 domain codes (IDM/SIM/MET), 4 cue-level codes, 4 progress-status codes, 3 generalization levels (sentence/passage/spontaneous), every descriptor a blank line the team defines

• Figurative Language Caseload Roster — 14 rows: student, skill(s) tracked, current level, last session, next session due

• Binder Cover and Divider Tabs — a spine/cover card, 4 cut-out tabs matching the file's sections, and a 10-row "where to find things" index

Take The Data

• Idiom Interpretation Data Sheet — a sample 10-idiom bank (ten different idioms), 11 session rows of a 10-trial grid, criterion and cued-trial fields

• Simile Identification Data Sheet — a different shape on purpose: 10 rows, one per simile sentence, with two separate yes/no columns (comparison identified; likeness explained accurately), a single-session capture sheet rather than a multi-session trend grid

• Metaphor Interpretation Data Sheet — the same trend-grid shape as the idiom sheet, its own sample 10-metaphor bank, 11 session rows of a 10-trial grid

• Quick Daily Figurative Language Check — a 13-row log for whichever idiom, simile or metaphor actually came up that day, trading the fixed item bank for speed

• Frequency Correct/Incorrect Chart — one row per skill (3 rows) plus an optional combined-totals row, tallying presented/correct/incorrect/self-corrected-or-partial/no-response for the session, plus an optional 4-session quick-trend table (3 rows x 4 sessions) and a 4-item "when to change something" checklist

• Paraprofessional and Classroom Carryover Form — 12 rows, plain words instead of codes, for the adult in the room who is not the SLP or case manager

Track, Report And Share

• Cumulative Accuracy Tracker — three full 12-session blocks, one each for idiom, simile and metaphor, with date, level and percent correct logged each session

• Progress Graph — a scaled 0–100 grid to plot the trend, with an aim line

• Quarterly Progress Summary — a 3-row table (one per skill: baseline, current level, status, one sentence), settings/percent/next-step fields, two write-on cards, and a 4-item "before this goes in the report" checklist

• Family Update — Figurative Language at Home — a ready-to-send communication page: what was worked on and which type, an expression that is going well, one expression to try at home, family questions and answers, and a 7-day practiced table

• Progress Note Phrase Bank — 20 observable-language starters across 4 groups (idiom interpretation, simile identification, metaphor interpretation, the quarterly-report sentence), every one ending in a blank pulled from a data sheet in the file

Plus a Start Here quick-start, a 3-section contents page with real page thumbnails, 3 section dividers, and a "what's next" back page.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF. Open it in a PDF reader, click a field, type, Save As once per student. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT a Google Sheets file, a Google Doc, or an Excel workbook, and it does not score a response against a published norm or compute a percent for you.

It is not Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor Progress Monitoring Probes — that file is six fixed probe forms built to write and score ONE written IEP goal for naming a simile or metaphor's comparison, with its own goal and baseline page. It is also not Idioms: Identify the Meaning Progress Monitoring Probes — a separate multiple-choice-style probe scoring idiom meaning for one goal. And it is not Semantic Word Relationships and Word Meaning Progress Monitoring Editable — that file spreads a caseload's tools across SIX semantic domains (synonyms, antonyms, word categories, multiple-meaning words, figurative language, word-family production), of which figurative language is only one page. This file is the figurative-language-only data system: a trended sheet for EACH of idiom and metaphor interpretation, a per-item sheet for simile identification, a quick combined check, a frequency chart, a paraprofessional/classroom form, a tracker and graph, a quarterly summary, a family update, and a phrase bank, built for a caseload across a term. No page in this file names a condition, states an age or a milestone, or sets a rule for when a referral is warranted; every criterion is a blank line the team writes in from the IEP and its own judgment. The idiom, simile and metaphor banks are an informal, invented sample stimulus set built for this file, not a standardized instrument — swap in your own. No health data is pre-filled anywhere, and the example student (Devon K.) is invented and named as such on pages 22-23.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists and special education case managers with an idiom, simile or metaphor goal on the caseload, plus the paraprofessionals and general education teachers who help collect the data.

If You Want More

Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor Progress Monitoring Probes and Idioms: Identify the Meaning Progress Monitoring Probes are the six-form probe sets built to score one goal each. Semantic Word Relationships and Word Meaning Progress Monitoring Editable is the six-domain caseload pack. Synonyms and Antonyms Progress Monitoring Data Sheets Editable is the word-relationship sibling on this same data-sheet shelf.