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Stage 1

Directing Activities Part 1
Purpose: To encourage the person to direct the behavior of others and the course of any activity with words instead of behavior.
Directing Activities Part 2
Purpose: to expand the person's ability to request and direct action with specific action words.
Expressing Negatives
Purpose: To encourage the person to direct the behavior of others using negatives.
Names
Purpose: To encourage using names for other people
Wash What?
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to teach words that a person can use to direct personal care with one-word utterances.

Stage 2

Building Phrases with Dynamic Activity Rows
Purpose: to increase knowledge and usage of vocabulary in dynamic rows
Customizing Activity Rows
Purpose: To encourage the person to speak with two word phrases by using a core word followed by a word of his or her choice from the dynamic activity rows.
Directing Activities with Phrases: Part 1
Purpose: to encourage using 2-word phrases to request and direct activities and to expand the person's length of utterances
Directing Activities with Phrases: Part 2
Purpose: to encourage using 2-word phrases to request and direct activities and to expand the person's length of utterances
Expressing Negatives
Purpose: to encourage using 2-word phrases to express negatives and direct activities and to expand the person's length of utterances
On and Off
Purpose: : To teach the meaning of "on" and "off"
This, That, These, and Those
Purpose: to teach the concepts of "this", "that", "these" and "those" through expression by requesting singular or multiple items close by or at a distance.
Wash What? -- a lesson on personal hygiene
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to teach words that a person can use to direct personal care with one-word utterances and two-word phrases.

Stage 3

Expanding Requests and Preferences
Purpose: To increase correct usage of infinitive complements (adding to + verb to complete a sentence, for example "I want to play.")
Learning to Say "-ing" Verbs
Purpose: to increase correct usage of the target -ing verb forms.
More Prepositions
Purpose: to teach the concepts of
Plural Nouns
Purpose: to teach when to use a plural "s" at the end of a noun.
Prepositions and "-ing" verbs in phrases
Purpose: To increase use of prepositions in sentences following present progressive verbs.
Transitioning to Sequenced Unity
Purpose: To begin using a sequenced Unity version as quickly as possible.
Using Prepositions to Show Position
Purpose: to introduce the prepositions "in" and "on" and how they show position.
Using Simple Verb Phrases
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce simple declarative phrases using pronouns and verbs.
Wash What? - a guide to personal hygiene
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to teach words that a person can use to direct personal care with two and three-word phrases.

Stage 4

Asking "wh" Questions
Purpose: to introduce and produce simple "wh" questions
Asking "wh" Questions at School
Purpose: to teach the skill of asking questions to request information, to elicit a response from a communication partner, and to have communicative exchange.
Asking Questions
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to teach the skill of asking questions to request information, to ask permission, to elicit a response from a communication partner, and to have communicative exchange.
Describing Things: Using Adjectives in Phrases
Purpose: to teach when and how to use describing words in short phrases
Expressing Negatives with Pronoun-Verb Phrases
Purpose: To teach negative pronoun-verb phrases so that the person can direct an activity or demonstrate feelings of dislike towards someone or something.
Expressing Past Actions
Purpose: to increase correct usage of the target irregular past tense verbs.
Simple Linking Verbs "is" and "are"
Purpose: to learn to say the linking verbs "is" and "are" and expand length of utterance.
Subject Pronouns
Purpose: To teach using the correct subject pronouns in sentences
Subject Pronouns Lesson 2
Purpose: To give more practice speaking and writing sentences beginning with subject pronouns.
Subject-Verb Agreement with "is" and "are"
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the grammar rule of subject pronouns agreeing with the verbs "is" and "are" and to provide examples and practice for subject-verb agreement.
Wash What?
Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to teach words that a person can use to direct personal care with phrases and sentences.

Stage 5

Describing How Things Were in the Past
Purpose: To increase use of was and were in sentences to describe how things were in the past..
Expressing Actions from the Past
Purpose: To increase use of the past tense regular form -ed.
Expressing Future Actions
Purpose: to teach how to express actions that will happen in the future
Future Tense with "I will" and "Will you"
Purpose: to teach how to express actions that will happen in the future
Possessive Nouns
Purpose: To increase use of the noun possessive -s form.
Then and Now
Purpose: To increase use of "I am" and "I was" in sentences to define present and past tense state of being.
Using Articles "a" and "the"
Purpose: To teach how to use "a" and "the."

Stage 6

Complex Sentences Using Conjunctions
Purpose: To teach the meaning of conjunctions and give practice using them in spoken and written language.
Contractions
Purpose: To teach the meaning of contractions and give practice using them in spoken and written language.
Using Indefinite Pronouns
Purpose: To teach the meaning of indefinite pronouns and give practice using them in spoken and written language.