AI Differentiation Prompts for Teachers: Scaffolds and Extensions, Middle School

Ready-to-fill AI prompts for scaffolds and extensions that keep one goal for the whole class

Making a word bank, sentence frames, or a challenge task for the same lesson takes time. This set gives you ten ready-to-fill prompts for scaffolds, language supports, and extensions. Every set keeps one lesson goal for everyone. You describe the need, never the student, and you check everything before students see it. AI drafts the support. You decide who uses it.

What's Included

• Teacher notes: how to use the set and the ground rules

• Before You Start: privacy rules for differentiation, with an "instead of, write" table that shows how to describe a need without describing a student

• Your Details: a block you fill in once, then paste into any prompt

• Ten sets, one page each, each with a ready-to-fill prompt, a filled-in example, and a You Still Check list: directions in shorter steps, sentence frames for a written response, a word bank for a topic, a visual organizer outline, a long task in chunks, a challenge extension on the same goal, a choice board on one goal, language supports for English learners, a leveled warm-up at two levels, and vocabulary support before reading

• Three sets ask AI for an answer key (the challenge extension, the leveled warm-up, and the vocabulary check). You solve every item yourself before you use the key.

• Terms of use page

• Made for Google Drive: you get your own editable copy of the Google Doc.

How Teachers Use It

• Add the set to your Google Drive and fill in Your Details once.

• Pick the set for the support you need and fill in every bracket.

• Run the prompt in the AI tool your school allows.

• Do every step of You Still Check before students see the support.

• Offer the support to any student who needs it, or to the whole class.

Why It Works

• Every version keeps the same lesson goal as the rest of the class.

• Accommodations come from the student's plan, not from AI, and no plan text goes into any prompt.

• The prompts use only your own words, lists, and short excerpts, so the support matches your lesson.

• Each set ends with a check you do yourself. Asking AI again does not count as a check.

Pairs Well With

• Classroom AI Policy Kit: the three statuses and the AI Use Note, set as the AI policy for your class.

• AI Use Note Slips (free): short slips students turn in to show how they used AI, or that they didn't.

Good to Know

• This set is a starting point to adapt to your school and district rules. It is not legal advice.

• The filled-in examples use invented classes, tasks, and details. Change them to match your own class.

• One license covers one teacher. Each additional teacher needs their own license.

• Made for Google Drive: after checkout, open the link in your download and click Make a copy to get your own editable version. You need a Google account.

• Format: Google Docs.

• 14 pages in Google Docs.

• Grades 6-8, any subject.

About Us

We're a husband-and-wife team: a former elementary and middle school English teacher and structured literacy coach with a master's in instructional design, and a pilot.

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