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The Primary Gal

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Seymour, Indiana, United States
About the store
If you have struggling students, you have found the right store. As a special education teacher, I love to help teacher figure out the best way to help their students grow and learn. The best part? Many of my resources are designed to help your students master new skills, while you save time. In my fourteen years of experience, I've taught a little bit of everything! During my first year of teaching, I taught kindergarten through third grade special education. I absolutely loved every minute of it, and saw myself in this setting for many years to come. Due to a difficult and academically low group of students, I moved to upper elementary to follow my third grade students from the prior year. Initially, I wondered if I was suited to teach upper elementary. I soon learned that I loved it just as much. During my second year, I taught fourth and fifth grade <strong>special education</strong>. I loved my school, principal, students, and fellow teachers, but my daughter was beginning kindergarten at another school. When I had the opportunity to switch school districts to be with my daughter, I did. I began teaching <strong>fifth grade general education</strong> in a school that departmentalizes. I had the privilege of focusing only on math, science, and social studies. The following year, I pulled double duty! I taught fifth grade general education AND serviced our students with disabilities in kindergarten through fifth grade. It was quite a challenge, but I absolutely loved it. Now, I am back in the primary grades and can feel like the store name The Primary Gal is a fit again! I am doing special education with our little ones at my school.
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Preview of Special Education Progress Monitoring Tracking Sheets Data Collection IEP Goals

Special Education Progress Monitoring Tracking Sheets Data Collection IEP Goals

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The Primary Gal
Special education teachers, do you need to make progress monitoring for RTI and IEP goals easier? These pre-written goals that make data collection a breeze! You’ll get two forms to assess letters, sounds, decoding, fact fluency, basic computation, and MORE. Progress Monitoring for RTI and IEP goals can be difficult and requires consistent, simple measures for gathering data. Each of these progress monitoring data collection pages have goals that are pre-written to align with tracking sheets t
Preview of IEP Goal Progress Monitoring Tracking Sheets for Data Collection in Special Ed

IEP Goal Progress Monitoring Tracking Sheets for Data Collection in Special Ed

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The Primary Gal
SPED Teachers: Does data collection feel overwhelming? Does the thought of tracking IEP goals make you want to scream? Honestly, it *should* be easy. But most of the time, tracking IEP goals is nothing less than stressful.  Most special education teachers struggle with data collection because they don’t have a good system. They don’t have a home for the data once it is collected.  These tracking sheets will allow you to collect data in your small groups and have a place to put it without sp
Preview of Special Education Caseload Binder with Calendars and Lesson Plan Templates

Special Education Caseload Binder with Calendars and Lesson Plan Templates

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The Primary Gal
Managing a special education caseload can be overwhelming—especially when you're balancing IEPs, evaluations, progress monitoring, and lesson plans on top of everything else. That’s why I created this Special Education Caseload Binder—an easy-to-use resource designed to help you stay organized, streamline documentation, and confidently prepare for every meeting. This binder includes both printable and editable forms to fit your planning style. The printable PDF forms (75 pages) are ideal for tea
Preview of Progress Monitoring Forms for Tracking Decoding of Real and Nonsense Words

Progress Monitoring Forms for Tracking Decoding of Real and Nonsense Words

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The Primary Gal
Does progress monitoring stress you out? As a special education teacher, progress monitoring can *quickly* get out of hand. Usually, it’s because we don’t have the tools and resources we need to make it happen.  When I first started teaching, I would progress monitor every three weeks. I collected GREAT data, if I do say so myself. However, it was time-consuming and typically required me to STOP instruction in order to progress monitor.  What was the point?  In all honesty, I feel like al
Preview of Math Progress Monitoring Assessments for IEP Goals | Math Facts & Computation

Math Progress Monitoring Assessments for IEP Goals | Math Facts & Computation

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The Primary Gal
Running out of math assessments to use for progress monitoring? These print and go math assessments are perfect for all of those computation IEP goals. Utilizing random resources or in class activities is great, but they don't always target the skill that is written in their IEP goal. Now, no matter what their goal, you'll have the assessments and tracking sheets that are needed to make progress monitoring their math goals much easier! How can you progress monitor them quickly?  My solu
Preview of Sight Words | Progress Monitoring Tracking Sheets and Assessments for IEP Goals

Sight Words | Progress Monitoring Tracking Sheets and Assessments for IEP Goals

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The Primary Gal
Does the thought of progress monitoring IEP goals for sight words overwhelm you? It can be time-consuming, but it doesn’t have to be anymore.  Asking students to read LOOOONG lists of sight words will take you forever to progress monitor.  Whether you love Dolch or Fry Sight words, the lists are lengthy. All of that being said, we know that many of our students have IEP goals that target their ability to read high frequency words.  How can you progress monitor them quickly?  My solution i
Preview of Teacher Binder & Organizational Templates | Editable Forms Classroom Management

Teacher Binder & Organizational Templates | Editable Forms Classroom Management

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The Primary Gal
Do you struggle to organize your class lists, small groups, and lesson plans? Me too! Well, that is until I started putting everything into a well organized binder. This teacher binder is a collection of customizable forms that I have used for classroom management over the years. It has seriously saved my sanity! I take my binder to meetings, have it out when working on my lesson plans, and can easily find important documents when needed. Printable PDF FormsThe forms listed below are not editab
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If you have struggling students, you have found the right store. As a special education teacher, I love to help teacher figure out the best way to help their students grow and learn. The best part? Many of my resources are designed to help your students master new skills, while you save time. In my fourteen years of experience, I've taught a little bit of everything! During my first year of teaching, I taught kindergarten through third grade special education. I absolutely loved every minute of it, and saw myself in this setting for many years to come. Due to a difficult and academically low group of students, I moved to upper elementary to follow my third grade students from the prior year. Initially, I wondered if I was suited to teach upper elementary. I soon learned that I loved it just as much. During my second year, I taught fourth and fifth grade <strong>special education</strong>. I loved my school, principal, students, and fellow teachers, but my daughter was beginning kindergarten at another school. When I had the opportunity to switch school districts to be with my daughter, I did. I began teaching <strong>fifth grade general education</strong> in a school that departmentalizes. I had the privilege of focusing only on math, science, and social studies. The following year, I pulled double duty! I taught fifth grade general education AND serviced our students with disabilities in kindergarten through fifth grade. It was quite a challenge, but I absolutely loved it. Now, I am back in the primary grades and can feel like the store name The Primary Gal is a fit again! I am doing special education with our little ones at my school.

Teaching style

I love to make teaching fun, rigorous, and the perfect level for each of my students. I love to use multi-sensory instruction that is rooted in the Science of Reading.

Awards & shining teacher moments

2023 Teacher of the Year

My own education history

I attended Indiana University where I received my bachelor's degree in elementary education as well as an endorsement in special education.

Additional biographical information

I am a wife and mother of two beautiful daughters. I love spending time with my family, being outdoors, binge watching Netflix, and reading!