Differentiation With AI

AI can produce three difficulty levels of the same lesson in one prompt.

Differentiation is the gold standard but the time killer. AI changes that ratio.

Where AI helps differentiate

• Reading-level adjusted versions of any text
• Tiered worksheets for the same skill
• Extension questions for early finishers

The big idea: AI makes differentiation actually feasible — even on a normal teacher schedule.

Differentiation is real teaching — but who has time to write 3 versions of every lesson? AI can take your core lesson and produce a scaffolded version, on-level version, and stretch version in 5 minutes.

Some examples

• Paste a reading; get 3 Lexile versions.
• Ask AI for a 'fill in the blank' scaffold version of a worksheet.
• Generate a stretch task for early finishers.
• Have AI suggest sentence frames for ELL students.

Try it!

Pick tomorrow's lesson. Ask AI for a scaffolded, on-level, and stretch version of one core task.

Differentiating a lesson 3 ways used to take 90 minutes; AI can do it in 10. You get an on-grade, below-grade, and above-grade version of the same content with 3 different texts and 3 different exit tickets.

Some examples

• Ask ChatGPT to rewrite a passage at 3 different Lexile levels.
• Ask Claude for 3 exit tickets at 3 cognitive levels for the same standard.
• Ask Gemini for sentence stems at the ELL beginner level for the same task.
• Ask Perplexity for evidence-based scaffolding strategies for your grade band.

Try it!

Pick tomorrow's lesson. Ask AI for the 3-tier version and bring all 3 to class.