Reading-Level Adjustment With AI

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1. A teacher wants to rewrite a passage about ecosystems for 4th-grade readers. Which prompt would get the most accurate result?

   1. Make this easier for kids
   2. Rewrite this at a 4th-grade reading level, keeping all science vocabulary but defining each term in context
   3. Simplify this passage
   4. Change the words to smaller words

2. What is a Lexile number used for?

   1. Measuring how many words a student can read per minute
   2. Quantifying the complexity of a text so it can be matched to a reader's level
   3. Grading a student's reading comprehension score
   4. Tracking how often a word appears in a text

3. You ask AI to rewrite a science article at a 5th-grade level. The output looks polished. What should you do before distributing it to students?

   1. Distribute it immediately — AI is accurate
   2. Read it yourself to verify key concepts survived the rewrite
   3. Run it through a second AI to double-check
   4. Have a student read it and report back

4. A high school ELA class spans Lexile levels from 600L to 1100L. Which AI strategy lets all students engage with the same short story?

   1. Give every student the original text and let them struggle
   2. Give lower-level students a completely different, simpler story
   3. Generate three Lexile-adjusted versions of the same text, then use identical discussion questions for all
   4. Skip the story and use a video instead

5. Which prompt addition helps you quality-check an AI-adjusted text most efficiently?

   1. Ask AI to add pictures to the text
   2. Ask AI to flag the sentences it changed most significantly
   3. Ask AI to summarize the passage instead
   4. Ask AI to translate the passage into Spanish

6. Which student populations benefit from AI reading-level adjustment in a mixed classroom?

   1. Only gifted students who read above grade level
   2. Only students with IEPs
   3. ELL students, struggling readers, and advanced readers simultaneously
   4. Students who prefer digital reading over print

7. A teacher asks AI for a 6th-grade version of a 1776 primary source. The AI removes all references to Parliament and taxation. What went wrong?

   1. Nothing — AI simplified it correctly
   2. The AI's Lexile estimate was wrong
   3. The prompt didn't tell AI to preserve historically critical vocabulary and concepts
   4. The teacher should have used a different AI tool

8. Which workflow best maintains a sustainable library of differentiated texts across a school year?

   1. Create differentiated versions one day before each lesson
   2. Keep one master text file per unit and generate Lexile-adjusted versions from it on demand
   3. Ask students to create simplified versions for their peers
   4. Photocopy different textbooks for different groups

9. Why might AI-generated Lexile estimates be unreliable?

   1. AI cannot read English text
   2. AI produces approximations rather than validated Lexile scores
   3. Lexile scores only apply to published textbooks
   4. AI inflates Lexile scores to make teachers feel good

10. A teacher generates a stretch version at a 10th-grade level for advanced 7th graders. What additional step makes it most educationally valuable?

    1. Assign it without any support resources
    2. Pair it with an AI-generated glossary of new vocabulary terms
    3. Replace the original passage with the stretch version for the entire class
    4. Have students copy the stretch version by hand

11. A student's IEP specifies reading at a 3rd-grade level. Her class is studying a 7th-grade science text. What is the most appropriate AI use here?

    1. Excuse her from the science unit entirely
    2. Ask AI to rewrite the 7th-grade text at a 3rd-grade Lexile level with in-text vocabulary definitions, then review before use
    3. Give her a children's picture book instead
    4. Ask AI to grade her work

12. Which is a real risk of distributing an AI-adjusted text without teacher review?

    1. Students may prefer the adjusted version to the original
    2. The AI may have introduced factual errors or removed key concepts during simplification
    3. The adjusted text may be too difficult for advanced readers
    4. AI-adjusted texts are not legal to distribute in schools

13. How does reading-level adjustment support 'same content, different access'?

    1. It gives lower-level students a different topic to study
    2. It allows all students to engage with the same ideas at a text complexity matched to their reading ability
    3. It tracks which students are reading below grade level
    4. It replaces the teacher's need to differentiate instruction

14. A teacher asks AI to adjust a two-page passage to a 2nd-grade level. The result is only three sentences. What likely caused this?

    1. AI correctly identified that the content only needed three sentences
    2. AI over-simplified by condensing heavily, losing most of the content
    3. AI chose to write a poem instead
    4. The original passage was poorly written

15. Which combination of prompt elements produces the most usable AI reading-level adjustment?

    1. Target Lexile range + preserve key vocabulary + define terms in context + flag heavily changed sentences
    2. Grade level label only
    3. A request to 'dumb it down'
    4. Word count limit only