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Write a thinking task your English learners can do without making it easier
Give it a subject and skill. Get a task, a language check and a version with help.
Write a thinking task English learners can do is a free AI workflow for the job "Teach and train people". It guides your AI through several skills in order, passing each step's output to the next.
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What it does
When a task is too hard for English learners, the usual fix is to simplify the thinking. The task gets easier, the students think less and the gap grows. The real problem is often the language around the thinking: long sentences, subject words, questions with hidden steps. The steps separate the two. First it writes a task that asks for real thinking in your subject. Then it reads the task for the words and sentence types that may block a learner of English, and separates those from the thinking itself. Last it adds word banks, sentence starters or visuals aimed at those blocks, with lighter help for stronger learners.
You give it
- The subject and topic
- The thinking skill, such as weighing evidence, spotting bias or testing an argument
- The age group and what you know of your learners' English levels
You get
- A task with its questions and what a strong answer shows
- A list of the words and sentences likely to block learners of English
- A version of the task with language help added and the thinking left as hard
Use it when
- Your class includes students still learning English and your tasks lose them.
- You want a critical thinking task for your subject and one version for everyone.
- You are tempted to cut the hard thinking to make a task readable.
Steps
- Critical thinking task writer: Name a subject and a skill. Get a task where learners weigh evidence, spot bias or test an argument.
- Task language demand checker: Paste a task or text. Get the words and sentence types that may block students still learning English.
- English learner task support planner: Give it a task. Get a version with language help added that keeps the thinking just as hard.
How to use it
- Download the handoff pack. It is a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
- Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
- Name the subject, the thinking skill and the age group. Add your learners' English levels if you know them.
- Read the task first and change it to fit your class before the language steps run on it.
- Try the supported version with one small group, then change the help that did not land.