Present Levels Template Editable

About this resource

The present levels box on the IEP is written for reading, writing and math, and then the SLP, the OT, the PT and the counselor are each asked for a paragraph with nothing built for them. This is that paragraph, as a fillable PDF: an inventory of what data you actually have, seven present level templates with the sentence frames already written, a strengths bank, frames that tie a measured skill to a real class period, a worksheet that turns one row of data into one sentence, and a self-check. Type the sentences, Save As per student, paste into the district form.

WHAT IS INCLUDED - 18 pages, 303 type-in fields

How It Works

• How a Related-Service Present Level Is Built - the four parts (data, strengths, needs, effect on participation) in a four-row table that says where each one is written, plus a five-row table matching each provider to their template, the rule that every sentence carries a number and a date, and a plain statement of what this file does not do
• How the Type-In Fields Work - one page, so nobody emails you
• Data Inventory - 12 rows across five columns: the kind of data (evaluation as reported, probes, classroom observations, work samples, attendance and minutes, family, student and teacher report), the source and who reported it, the date, what it says in the words of the report, and the page it goes on

Tools Every Provider Shares

• Strengths and Interests Bank - 12 sentence starters with two writing lines each, every one ending in a number, a date or a name
• Effect on Participation Frames - 14 frames, one per part of the school day: morning meeting, whole-group instruction, partner work, independent seat work, speaking in front of the class, answering a question, written work, transitions, lunch and recess, specials, field trips and drills, arrival and the bus, asking for help, check-ins
• From Data to Sentence - 8 rows: the measure, the number as reported, the date, and the sentence as it will appear in the section
• Present Level Self-Check - 12 checks with a tick box and a fix-it column
• A filled example for an invented first grader: an eleven-row data inventory and the speech sound present level written from it, where every figure in the paragraph appears in a row of the inventory

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF. Open it in a PDF reader, click a line or a cell, type, press Tab to move on, and 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 paste itself into your district's system.

It is not an evaluation, not a report template, and not a decision about services. Every measure is written as the evaluation or the team reported it, with the figure left blank for you to fill. No norm and no cutoff is printed anywhere, no number is called high or low, no label is named, and nothing in the file recommends a therapy, a minute count or an approach - those belong to the team and to other parts of your district's form. Your district's form decides the headings; this decides what goes under them.

Who This Is For

School speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school counselors and school social workers who write a present level paragraph for every student on the caseload, and the case managers who have to assemble those paragraphs into one section. The academic domains - reading, writing, math, behavior, functional - are in the Present Levels (PLAAFP) Writing Kit; this is the related-services half.