IEP goal tracking sheets that count what the goal counts
A goal written as a rate and a goal written as four out of five opportunities are not measured with the same table. Pick the goal and the sheet is built from its criterion — the columns ask for the number the goal is actually scored on, and nothing else.
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Progress monitoring
Scored on words correct per minute · reviewed by the annual review date
By the annual review date, when given an unpracticed third-grade-level passage, [Student] will read aloud for one minute at 90 words correct per minute with 95% accuracy, as measured by weekly one-minute curriculum-based measurement probes.
| Date | Score 1 | Score 2 | Score 3 | Median (words correct per minute) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Three score columns because a rate is usually sampled more than once in a sitting. Use as many as your measure calls for and carry the median into the shaded column — that is the number the goal is scored on.
Shaded columns are worked out from the ones beside them; every other column is something observed. Print it and fill it in.
Only the sheet prints — the page around it is left off the paper.
The columns come from the goal
A percentage goal gets a column for the denominator, because percentages from different-sized samples are not the same measurement. A frequency goal is left as a pair. A prompting goal gets the whole ladder as tick boxes.
Built for a clipboard
It prints blank, one goal to a page, with room to write in the room rather than back at a desk. Twelve dated rows, ruled both ways, so a tick lands in the column you meant.
How often is your team's call
The regulation requires the IEP to say when progress reports will be provided. It offers quarterly as an example rather than setting the interval — the sheet is dated by row so it fits whichever schedule the IEP states.
What the regulation actually says
- The IEP must describe how the child’s progress toward the annual goals will be measured.
- 34 CFR §300.320(a)(3)(i)
- The IEP must state when periodic reports on progress toward the annual goals will be provided. The regulation offers quarterly reports issued alongside report cards as an example — it does not set the interval.
- 34 CFR §300.320(a)(3)(ii)
- Often written otherwise: Commonly written as "quarterly progress reports are federally required". They are not; the interval is the IEP team’s to state.
Write the goal first
The sheet is built from a goal, so if there is no goal yet the generator is the place to start — or browse the bank by skill area.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below, with the date it was read. Requirements change; if a source has moved on since that date, the source is right and this page is out of date.
- 34 CFR §300.320 — Definition of individualized education program Read August 26, 2026