Manners and Polite Language Cue Cards

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 23 pages, 230 type-in fields

• A Manners Chart: all 8 polite words on one poster, meant to be posted on a wall and taught from, not cut apart
• 8 manners cards, 2 inches square, sized for velcro dots: please, thank you, excuse me, wait your turn, quiet voice, listen, say hello, cover a sneeze
• Every card and the chart twice: a full-color set for the wall and the board, and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• A Manners Practice Board with one main "Which Manners Word Did I Use?" slot and a six-slot "Today's Practice" strip with a time line under each
• Two desk-size manners boards on one sheet, for a folder or a second setting
• 8 blank manners cards with a type-in word line, for any polite word the printed set does not cover
• A how-to page: before the first day, the three moves every time, how often to use the board, if a different word is chosen than expected, when a word is missing, writing down what changes
• A Manners Practice Log (16 rows: date, time, manner, how it happened, where, notes)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a times-practiced-per-week graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one day on the log and three weeks on the roll-up, every number re-counted from its own row
• A family page with a kitchen-size chart and board and six home manners words on one sheet
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional or another classroom runs the same chart and board the same way
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for the chart and board, 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

A manners and polite-language reference tool that comes with its own data. Most cue-card sets stop at the pictures; this one adds a cut-apart card for every word, a practice board, a log, a weekly roll-up and a phrase bank behind it, so a polite word used at school turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Chart And Cards

• The chart: all 8 words on one page, for teaching and for the wall
• The cards (8) — please, thank you, excuse me, wait your turn, quiet voice, listen, say hello, cover a sneeze: the same 8 words, cut apart so one can move onto the practice board

Every picture is a concrete gesture or object, not an abstract idea — a hand raised, an hourglass, a finger to closed lips — chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set; a word that failed in either set was left out of both. Cards are 2 inches square; the board's main slot is sized to match.

The Board

• Manners Practice Board — one "Which Manners Word Did I Use?" panel with a slot, and a "Today's Practice" strip of six smaller slots with a time line under each.
• Two desk-size manners boards — two boards on one sheet, cut apart, for a folder or a second student.

The boards carry no pictures, so they print 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 slots and time lines, the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The chart and card pages print on cardstock or plain paper; the cards 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 to show a polite word in a picture and keep a record of when it was used. It is not a behavior plan, a clinical finding, a screening tool or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; it does not say why a word was chosen or what to do about it — how the chart 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: which manners word was used.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals building polite-language vocabulary with early, pre-reading or emerging-language students, 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 is one of several sets in the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Feelings Chart and Check-In Cards and Calm-Down Choice Cards and Self-Regulation Picture Cards; 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.