How to Read a Prescription Label – Life Skills

Name: How to Read a Prescription Label – Life Skills
SKU: independent-living-skills-how-to-read-a-prescription-label
Price: 19.99 CAD
Availability: InStock

Reading and interpreting a prescription medication label is the focus of this life-skills activity from the Adulting on the Spectrum series, provided in both colour and black-and-white versions.

How to Read a Prescription Label – Life Skills preview: Colour version of the activity

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Grades: Grades 10–12
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Oct 03, 2023

Subject: Health, P.E. & Health, Special Education Needs (SEN), Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Life Skills, Art, Creative Arts, Special Resources
Topic: Autism Safety Resources, Personal Safety Passages
Resource types: Activities, Worksheets
Preparation: Print ready

From the author

About this resource

How to Read a Prescription Label supports high-school special education and independent-living lessons. Students examine sample labels, discuss the worksheet’s warning examples and consider questions to ask a doctor or pharmacist.

The activities include 35 multiple-choice reading questions and completed answers. The 38-page PDF contains colour and black-and-white versions, each with 15 instruction and activity pages plus an answer page, covers and publisher material.

Use selected pages in a class or one-to-one lesson, adapting support to learners’ reading needs.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Locate and interpret information printed on a prescription medication label.

Teaching tips

Choose the black-and-white version for economical classroom printing and the colour version for higher-fidelity display or one-to-one instruction.

Skills covered

Functional/life-skills literacy — students work on reading a real-world document type (a prescription label) as part of independent-living instruction, per the resource's stated topic.