Upon completion of this chapter, the reader will understand:

• how to consider the focus of instruction and organize learning experiences to promote children’s growth and development when planning curricula
  
  
• how to identify and plan curricula around broad outcomes and individual behaviors
  
  
• how to organize learning experiences that can and do occur within a child’s daily routines
  
  
• the special considerations that should be made when planning for groups of children rather than teaching individual children

PowerPoint Slides

• Figure 6.1: An embedding schedule in which broad outcomes for a group of children and individually targeted behaviors for specific children are addressed within the same activity
  
  
• Table 6.2: Examples of target behaviors written using an antecedent-behavior-criterion formula
  
  
• Figure 6.2: A web planning format (Initials represent children whose individually targeted skills can be embedded in a particular activity followed by the method of data collection that can be used to measure progress [e.g., checklist, jottings])