Spelling & Encoding Sounds IEP Goal Bank

Oh, the joys of spelling. The skill that is so hard to teach in isolation and so hard for many students to master. Students today don’t have to be perfect spellers– they just have to be good enough for spell check to figure out what they mean. But that is still a high bar for many students and spelling remains a foundational writing skill. Note that by spelling we don’t mean spelling words exactly the way they are supposed to look– we mean spelling them the way they are supposed to sound. Most of our goals here focus on phonetic spelling– the capturing of sounds– not on perfect spelling because the goal of spelling should be to encode sounds in a way others can recognize, not to get 100 on a spelling test. Spelling goals look different at every grade band, but we have spelling goals for elementary, middle, and high school students. If the skills on your student’s grade bands aren’t quite the ones you were hoping to write a goal on, check out the other grade bands– maybe you will find something there that works a bit better for your student.