Summary: Prompts are the extra help you give a learner so they get a response right before they can do it alone. This page walks through the prompt types you'll actually use (verbal, model, gestural, physical, visual, positional), the two hierarchies the exam loves to test (most-to-least and least-to-most), and the fading tools that get you from "I'm holding their hand" to "they did it without me." The whole job of a prompt is to disappear.
A prompt is an extra antecedent you add to make the right response more likely. The natural cue alone isn't pulling the behavior yet, so you stack something on top of it. That's all a prompt is.
Here's the thing students forget: the prompt is not the goal. The goal is for the learner to respond to the natural cue with no help from you. Every prompt you deliver, you're already planning how to take it away. A prompt you never fade isn't teaching, it's a crutch you built and forgot to remove. Hold onto that idea, because it's the spine of this entire page.
Types of prompts
Prompts get sorted by what kind of help you're giving. Some are loud and physical, some are nearly invisible. Learn them by how intrusive they are, because that ranking is what drives fading.
Verbal prompts
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