Letter Sound Progress Monitoring Probes and IEP Goal

About this resource

One skill, start to finish. A letter sound IEP goal, five equivalent probe forms that measure it, and a graph scaled to the probe. Baseline on Monday, goal written by Tuesday, first data point on Friday.

Every form is ten lowercase letters and untimed, so a score of 8 means the same thing on every form, and the student is never scored on speed.

WHAT IS INCLUDED - 13 pages, five probe forms, 297 type-in fields

The Goal Page

• What the probe measures, in one paragraph
• A sample goal, invented, with every bracket meant to be edited by the team
• The six-part goal frame as type-in fields: by (date), given, student will, criterion, on ___ of ___ consecutive probes, as measured by
• A baseline table: three probes and the median
• Three benchmark rows with target date, target score, actual score and met
• The administration and scoring directions
• Lines for this student's own scoring rules, and a box for what the errors say to reteach

Five Probe Forms, A Through E

• Ten lowercase letters per form, printed large in a card grid; the student says the most common sound, short sound for vowels
• The five forms are cut from one shuffle of the 26 letters, so every letter appears across the set and all but two appear twice. That repetition is deliberate on this skill: a sound the student cannot produce comes back inside the same rotation instead of waiting a month
• A line on the goal page for the accepted sounds for c, g, x, q and y, so a paraprofessional scores it the way you do
• Every form carries the goal it measures: the sample goal, plus a type-in box for the goal as written for this student, so the goal prints on the sheet the person giving the probe is holding
• A teacher scoring strip, 1 to 10, and a Correct ___ / 10 box at the foot of every form
• Name, date and form letter at the top

The Data Log And Graph

• A y-axis already scaled 0 to 10, twelve probe columns, and the instruction to draw the aim line from the baseline to the criterion first
• A twelve-row log: date, form, correct, errors, the score used on the graph, and notes

The Caseload Summary

• Twelve student rows, baseline and criterion, eight probe columns, a trend column and a decision column
• For the data meeting: rows that are flat together are a group, a row that is flat alone is a different question

A Worked Example

• An invented kindergartner, twelve weekly probes. The note that moved the teaching was not a score, it was "gave the letter NAME for 3 of the 5 misses" - a different problem from not knowing the sound, with a different fix. Baseline as a median, the aim line, three points under it, the change written on the row, the criterion met, and the progress-report sentence the log produces.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF. The goal page, the goal box on every probe form, the data log and the caseload page are type-in fields: open the file in a PDF reader, click a line or a cell, type, and Save As once per student. The probe forms are meant to be printed; the student reads from paper and writes nothing. One student copy of each form in a sheet protector lasts the year. It works offline with no account or subscription. It does not calculate percents or draw the graph.

It is not a norm-referenced assessment and it carries no benchmark score or "typical" rate. The criteria in the sample goal are in brackets because your team sets them from the baseline and the student's IEP. Every probe is untimed on purpose; the goal page says so, so the condition stays the same all year.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and case managers writing letter sound goals for any age student, kindergarten and first grade intervention teachers, and the paraprofessionals who give the weekly probe.

If You Want More Skills

This is the letter sound skill on its own. Letter Naming Progress Monitoring Probes is the skill before it and CVC Word Reading Progress Monitoring Probes is the one after, where these sounds have to blend. The twelve-skill pack, IEP Goals and Progress Monitoring Probes, carries all of them in one 69-page file.