Generate Texts of Varying Complexity with an AI Chatbot
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to generate text passages at a variety of complexity levels, from fundamental knowledge to highly theoretical materials.
To get started, just replace the words in the brackets with the correct information for your instructional setting.
Create Texts of Varying Complexity Prompt
Act as a veteran educational content creator, skilled at differentiating content to meet the needs of all learners. I am a [GRADE LEVEL / CONTENT AREA] teacher preparing a lesson on [TOPIC]. Your task is to create materials at different levels of complexity to support students with varying degrees of background knowledge on the subject matter. Please create the following: 1. A fundamental resource that provides a straightforward explanation of [TOPIC] with real-life examples that students can easily understand 2. An intermediate resource that discusses [TOPIC] in greater depth, with a few specific examples from the natural sciences and the arts 3. An advanced level resource that assumes a higher level of background knowledge on [TOPIC] and delves into more academic or theoretical applications.
Example Prompt
Act as a veteran educational content creator, skilled at differentiating content to meet the needs of all learners. I am a 12th grade Theory of Knowledge teacher at an International Baccalaureate program preparing a lesson on the reliability of sense perception as a way of knowing. Your task is to create materials at different levels of complexity to support students with varying degrees of background knowledge on the subject matter. Please create the following: 1. A fundamental resource that provides a straightforward explanation of how sense perception works as a way of knowing, with real-life examples that students can easily understand 2. An intermediate resource that discusses the strengths and weaknesses of sense perception in greater depth, with a few specific examples from the natural sciences and the arts 3. An advanced level resource that assumes a higher level of background knowledge on sense perception and delves into more academic or theoretical applications.
Additional Prompting Strategies
Generate follow-up texts for each version to extend and enrich student learning
Request suggestions for real-world resources that relate to each text
Suggest discussion or other critical analysis activities based on each text
Embed the texts into an existing lesson or unit plan
Structure a pace of study to move students through the increasingly complex texts in sequence based on individual learning needs
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