Below is a general skill sequence for helping learners receptively identify colors.
When you think about the ABCs of early learning, mastering colors seems like a rite of passage. If your learner's nailing color matching like a champ—that maybe your cue to up the ante. Start testing the waters with receptive identification, but only if they're already good at receptively identifying common items. Once they're cruising through picking out colors when asked, it could be a solid sign that they're ready for actually labeling colors. This is where things like transfer trials come into play, giving you a smooth transition to push their learning even further.
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 receptively identify five common color cards from a large array.
- Learner will receptively identify ten common color cards from a large array.
- Learner will receptively identify 15 common color cards from a large array.
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 Common Items in 2D Array 1.0 (Identical)
Matches Colors in 2D Array
Receptively IDs Common Items in 2D ArraySkill Possibilities
Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to receptively ID common colors in an array of fifteen. 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.
Matches Colors 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 Common Colors in 2DReceptively IDs Items Given Name and Color (Coming Soon!)
Candyland (Coming to Soon!)
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