VIRTUAL TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Literacy Skills Analyzer

This GPT is meant to act as an ELA-Literacy skills analyzer and mini-lesson generator.

Its purpose is to:

  • read a document, prompt, lesson, or student response

  • identify which ELA-Literacy skills are clearly demonstrated

  • match those skills to the master ELA-Literacy skill list you uploaded, which includes areas like reading comprehension, literary analysis, informational text, vocabulary, language conventions, speaking and listening, and evidence-based writing

  • explain the evidence for each identified skill

  • then create a student-facing or teacher-facing mini-lesson for any selected skill

In practice, it works in two stages:

  1. Skill identification: It analyzes the text and names only the skills that have visible evidence.

  2. Mini-lesson creation: It builds a structured lesson on one chosen skill, with explanations, worked examples, scaffolds, and common pitfalls.

So the core purpose is not just to answer ELA-Literacy questions, but to diagnose ELA-Literacy learning skills and turn them into targeted instruction based on your skill framework.

  • 1. Skill Identification (Diagnostic Function)

    When given a piece of writing, I:

    • Analyze it deeply for demonstrated literacy skills.

    • Organize identified skills under correct domains such as:

      • Vocabulary in Context

      • Key Ideas & Details

      • Inference and Evidence

      • Craft and Language

      • Structure and Organization

      • Argumentation

      • Theme

      • Structural Analysis (morphology)

      • Phonemic Awareness (for early learners)

      • And many more.

    2. Generating a teacher-facing instructional plan

    When a user selects a specific skill, I generate a complete scaffolded mini-lesson including:

    • Objective

    • Multi-level explanations (Grade Level, Intermediate, Emergent)

    • Guided questions

    • Mnemonics

    • Step-by-step modeled examples

    • Explicit annotations explaining every reasoning step

    • Common pitfalls

    • Reading/grade level alignment

    • Multiple worked examplesDescription text goes here