Below is a general skill sequence for helping learners label lowercase letters.
When learners reach the stage where they can confidently label objects and actions, it opens the door for teachers and BCBAs to introduce them to common safety symbols and the broader world of literacy. This advancement naturally leads to the exploration of letters, both uppercase and lowercase. The skill area we're focusing on here aims to teach learners how to label lowercase letters in a specific font. Mastery of this skill sets the stage for introducing them to various font styles, phonetic sounds, and even the foundations of word formation. As learners become comfortable with recognizing and labeling lowercase letters, the clinician or teacher can gradually expand their literacy skills, moving towards understanding different fonts, delving into phonetics, and beginning to construct basic words. This progression not only enhances their reading skills but also reinforces their understanding of important safety symbols and their meanings.
Treatment Plan Goal Ideas
This is a list of treatment plan goals. These are different from the goals you will find in the skill sequence below. Your treatment plan goals encompass any number of goals from the skill sequence. Sometime they will include multiple goals from the sequence (”Learner will label 5 toys”) and sometimes the treatment plan goal will be simply consist of a really important goal from the skill sequence (”Will label caregiver”). An analogy I like to use goes as follows: Each skill sequence goal (commonly known as a “target”) represent each stair in a flight of stairs. The treatment plan goal is the flight itself.
Treatment plan goal ideas for this particular skill area are as follows:
- Learner will label all 26 lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Component Skills
Your learner may need to be fluent in these component skills first before introducing this goal/skill area. Component skills for this skill sequence may include skill areas that are fundamental to other areas. Fluency in the skill areas listed below may increase the likelihood that your learner will succeed in this skill sequence and those afterward.
Intro to Scanning 
Intro to Matching (Visual Perception) 
Following Gestures
Matches Uppercase Letters in 2D Array (Identical)
Receptively IDs Uppercase Letters in 2D Array
Labels Common Items 1.0
Labels Uppercase Letters in 2DSkill Possibilities
Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to label lowercase letters. Note that every learner is different and that you likely will need to tweak and vary some programming to their needs. Click the triangle icon to view the full description for each skill in the sequence/area.
Concurrent Skills
Working on these skills at the same time could help with goal mastery. Maybe your learner has mastered these skills already. Perhaps they are already listed as component skills above. That’s okay! Targeting other learning channels might help your learner.
Labels Uppercase Letters in 2DMatches Lowercase Letters in 2D Array (Coming Soon!)
Receptively IDs Lowercase Letters in 2D ArrayComposite Skills
These are the possible next steps for learners who have mastered, or are mastering, the skills listed above. Note that new skill areas may require fluency in other component skills not listed above. Also, you can introduce composite skill sequences prematurely to keep your learner progressing, as generativity may occur earlier than expected.
Labels Lowercase Letters in 2D (3 Fonts) (Coming Soon!)
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