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Read the key facts on a medicine label

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When to use this goal

For older students moving toward managing their own medicine with family support, who cannot yet find the name, dose, times, and warnings on a label. Present levels in reading short phrases, numbers, and times decide fit. Practice uses empty, cleaned containers or printed labels only.

Baseline
Use 5 labels and 4 questions each. Separate prescription and over-the-counter labels in the data; their layouts differ.
Tips
Plan with the school nurse and family. Teach label words (tablet, take by mouth, every 6 hours, with food, may cause drowsiness). Medication safety routines are in community-safety goals (fn-cs).
Limits
Reading a label is not permission to take medicine. This goal never replaces the nurse's plan, the family's oversight, or a doctor's instructions.

Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID fn-fa-054.

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Student

How the goal refers to the student

Skill

What the student will do

Something an adult can see, count or time.

Condition

When or under what conditions

Support

Support allowed

Criterion

Percent of attempted items answered correctly.

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Criterion wording

Data collection

Scoring completed student work (permanent products) against a defined answer key or checklist.

How often data are collected
Mastery rule

How many measurements must meet the criterion.

Timeframe

Timeframe

Goal

By the annual IEP review date, given 5 printed prescription and over-the-counter labels and 4 questions about each, the student will find the medicine name, the dose, when to take it, and one warning on each label independently with at least 90% accuracy on label questions, across 3 consecutive weekly probes, as measured by work-sample analysis collected weekly.

Baseline: 30% accuracy.

  • Condition
  • Observable behavior
  • Criterion
  • Measurement method

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Measurability check11 of 11 met
  • Met: Observable behavior. Stated as an action.

  • Met: Condition. Stated.

  • Met: Unit fits the behavior. Percent accuracy fits this behavior.

  • Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.

  • Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.

  • Met: Method produces the metric. Work-sample analysis gives percent accuracy data.

  • Met: Review timeframe. Stated.

  • Met: Baseline and target compatible. Same unit, change in the right direction.

  • Met: Aligned with area of need. Still about Functional Academics.

  • Met: Level of support. Defined.

  • Met: Blanks filled in. Nothing left to fill in.

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Short-term objectives (optional)

When are objectives required?

Required for students on alternate assessments (34 CFR §300.320(a)(2)(ii)); some states require them for everyone.

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Area of need
Functional & Independence Skills - Functional Academics
Baseline
30% accuracy.
Annual goal364 characters
By the annual IEP review date, given 5 printed prescription and over-the-counter labels and 4 questions about each, the student will find the medicine name, the dose, when to take it, and one warning on each label independently with at least 90% accuracy on label questions, across 3 consecutive weekly probes, as measured by work-sample analysis collected weekly.
Timeframe
By the annual IEP review date
Condition
Given 5 printed prescription and over-the-counter labels and 4 questions about each
Behavior
The student will find the medicine name, the dose, when to take it, and one warning on each label independently
Criteria
With at least 90% accuracy on label questions, across 3 consecutive weekly probes
Evaluation method
Work-sample analysis
Schedule
Weekly

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Matching data sheet

Accuracy tracker. Records number correct and number attempted.

The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with formulas. Sheets print blank; no student data is stored.