I Feel, I Need, I Can Try Check-In Board

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 24 pages, 241 type-in fields

• A three-slot I FEEL / I NEED / I CAN TRY check-in board, shown full color, with a name line and a short note on what each slot is for
• 23 cut-apart picture cards across the three columns, shown twice (a full-color set and a black-and-white ink-saver set): 10 I Feel cards, 5 I Need cards, and the 4 I Can Try cards printed as two full sets (8 cut pieces) so the page always clears a 5-piece cutting minimum
• 12 blank cards with a type-in word line, for any word in any of the three columns the printed set does not cover
• A how-to page: before the first day, the three moves every time, starting with fewer slots, writing down what changes, when a slot is left empty, sending it home, handing it off to another adult
• A Check-In Log (15 rows: date, time, I Feel card, I Need card, I Can Try card, chain completed on own Y/N, help given, initials)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a percent-completed-on-own graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one day on the log and three weeks on the roll-up, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family page with a small version of the board and six cards (two from each column) sent home on one sheet
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional or another classroom runs the same board the same way
• A phrase bank: 21 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for the board, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 3 column labels and 7 plain labels, plus a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A check-in tool for a student who is ready to put a feeling, a need and a try together, built entirely from three card banks already sold separately in this collection: the feelings bank, the leveled break-request bank, and the four-step calm-down process. Rather than teaching the same pictures three separate times, this file chains them into one board and one log, the shape several named competitor listings already sell as a single "feelings and regulation choice board."

The Three Columns

• I FEEL (10 cards) — happy, sad, angry, scared, worried, tired, sick, calm, surprised, silly. The same bank as Feelings Chart and Check-In Cards.
• I NEED (5 cards) — the three color levels (Green "I'm okay," Yellow "I need a minute," Red "I need a break now") plus the two-part break pass (Break Pass, I'm Back). The same bank as Leveled Break Request Cards.
• I CAN TRY (4 cards, printed twice) — Notice, Breathe, Strategy, Check In, the fixed four-step process. The same bank as Calm Down Steps Sequence Cue Cards and Poster.

Every picture was already checked, in color and in the black-and-white set, against a young child's reading of it in its home product; nothing here is a new word or a new picture. Cards are 2 inches square; the board slots are sized to match.

The Board

One three-panel board — I FEEL, I NEED, I CAN TRY, left to right, each with a dashed slot a cut-apart card sits inside. It carries no pictures of its own, so it prints the same in color or black and white.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the board's name line, the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The card pages print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a way for a student to show, in pictures, how they feel, what they need, and one thing they can try. It is not a behavior plan, a point system with rules of its own, or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how the board is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. The log counts one thing: whether all three slots were filled on the student's own.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals who already use one or more of the three source card sets and want them chained into a single check-in routine, case managers who need the chain to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

This file is built from three other singles in the Visual Supports Collection — Feelings Chart and Check-In Cards, Leveled Break Request Cards, and Calm Down Steps Sequence Cue Cards and Poster — each sold on its own with more pages and more depth on its one bank; more picture-card sets 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.