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