# Reading Specialist - Literacy Coach - Screening Reliability - Frequently Asked Questions (Brookes Publishing)

### How do schools document reading intervention progress for IEP review?

**Summary:** The Data Collection Toolkit and A Teacher's Guide to Progress Monitoring walk teams through collecting data on IEP goals, graphing trends, and making data-based instructional decisions so IEP reviews rest on graphs and trends instead of impressions. Both books provide downloadable forms teams can use to standardize documentation.

Documenting reading intervention progress for IEP review starts with a measurable goal and a data collection routine that matches it, so teams arrive at the review with graphs and trends instead of impressions. Two Brookes Publishing resources are built for this workflow. The Data Collection Toolkit by Cindy Golden walks teachers through the step-by-step process of collecting data on behavior, academic skills, and IEP goals, with chapters on academic data and progress monitoring, IEP data, establishing a data collection system, analyzing data for trends and patterns, and data-based decision making. It includes more than 40 reproducible forms and tools, including Quick-Graph forms that make it easy to record data and graph trends on the same form (brookespublishing.com). A Teacher's Guide to Progress Monitoring by Jennifer Mahdavi shows educators how to monitor student progress toward academic, behavioral/social, and functional goals, create clear and easy-to-read graphs of the data, analyze data to make informed instructional decisions, and use progress monitoring to track progress toward IEP and 504 goals (brookespublishing.com). It also explains how progress monitoring fits within response to intervention (RTI) and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), and includes five case studies written by special educators that show the process in real classrooms. Both books provide downloadable forms through the Brookes Download Hub, so teams can standardize documentation across a school or district (brookespublishing.com).