Manners Cue Ring for Special Education

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EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages

• 8 cut-apart ring cards, 2 inches square, one per polite word (please, thank you, excuse me, wait your turn, quiet voice, listen, say hello, cover a sneeze) — the same eight words a posted manners chart already uses, 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 note on the ring sheet itself on cutting and threading, what to say with each card, and what to do when a word a student needs is not in the set
• 12 blank ring cards with a type-in word line, for any polite word the printed set does not cover
• A how-to page: building the ring, using a card every time, picking what travels on a smaller ring, what to do when a different word is chosen than expected, writing down what changes, what this ring is and is not, one ring for several adults, and sending it home and handing it off
• A Manners Practice Log (16 rows: date, time, manner, how it happened, where, notes)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a times-practiced graph (0–30 uses) and a count of different manners words used
• A filled example — an invented student, six uses on the log in one day and three weeks on the roll-up, every number re-counted from its own row
• A family page with a take-home strip of six manners cards and a week of home tracking on one sheet
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional, a specials teacher or a substitute uses the same ring the same way
• A phrase bank: 22 lines in 6 groups (spoken words for showing a card, 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 posted Manners and Polite Language Cue Cards chart, practice board and chart-sized cut-apart cards (this store's own 23-page set) stay where they are printed or posted. This file prints no chart and no board at all: the same eight polite words, cut small, punched near the top edge and threaded onto a one-inch book ring, so the whole manners vocabulary travels clipped to a lanyard, a belt loop or a badge reel — into the hallway, the cafeteria, specials, recess duty, or any room without a posted chart. It is the wearable companion to that chart-and-board set, not a second copy of it: the exact same pictures and words, cut small enough to carry.

THE BANK — 8 polite words (reused verbatim from the posted chart)

Please, thank you, excuse me, wait your turn, quiet voice, listen, say hello, cover a sneeze — concrete-gesture pictures only, no abstract concept word. The same bank, same pictures, as the posted chart-and-board version, so a classroom that already owns one set sees the exact same picture mean the exact same word on this ring.

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 eight manners words beyond a posted chart, and to write down which word was used and how. It is not a behavior plan, a clinical finding, or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how it 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.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, paraprofessionals, specials teachers and families who already use (or are about to introduce) the Manners and Polite Language Cue Cards chart and need the same eight words to travel beyond the wall — plus the case managers who need that use to show up as data.

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Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.