How to Read a Prescription Label – Life Skills
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.

- Year groups
- Secondary and Sixth Form, Years 11–13
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Health, P.E. & Health, Special Education Needs (SEN), Art, Life Skills, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Creative Arts, Special Resources
- Topic
- Autism Safety Resources, Personal Safety Passages
- Resource types
- Activities, Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Prescription label literacy is practiced through a no-prep life skills activity from the "Adulting on the Spectrum" series, titled How to Read a Prescription Label, which is built for special-education and independent-living instruction. The file is provided in two parallel versions, a full-colour set and a black-and-white set, so teachers can choose based on printing needs.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Use the included learning resource.
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.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Independent living skills
Medication safety
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