How to Read a Prescription Label – Life Skills

Practice reading sample prescription labels with 35 multiple-choice questions, label examples and prompts for discussions with a doctor or pharmacist. Color and black-and-white versions include answers.
Grades
Grades 10–12
Pages
38
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Oct 03, 2023

Subject
Life Skills, Health
Topic
Prescription Label, Medication Safety
Resource types
Worksheets
Answer key
Included

Product description

From the author

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 color 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.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Practice reading information presented on a prescription label as part of independent-living instruction.

Teaching tips

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

Skills covered

  • Find patient, prescription and pharmacy details on sample labels

  • Interpret the worksheet’s label and warning examples

  • Identify questions to discuss with a doctor or pharmacist

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Core concepts

  • Independent living skills

  • Medication safety

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