Add background help to a reading while keeping its cause-and-effect chain

An annotated reading passage with prerequisite bridges and predict prompts, plus a separate teacher causal-link key.

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Claude: drafts the dependency table, then the annotated passage

Claude maps causal links to prerequisite gaps, then drafts the annotated passage and a separate teacher key. You check both.

  1. You

    Get ready

  2. Claude

    Draft the table

  3. You

    Check the table

  4. Claude

    Draft the passage

  5. You

    Check and finish

  1. Have ready: passage, causal links, vocabulary, excerpts

    Use: You

    The authorised water-cycle passage, causal links, required vocabulary and the learner diagnostic excerpts showing confusion between heat input and temperature.

    Check

    Check you have reuse rights for the passage and each diagnostic excerpt is needed. Keep supplied facts distinct from additions.

  2. Draft the dependency table

    Use: Claude

    Paste the materials and ask for a table mapping each causal link to the evidenced prerequisite gaps.

    Details

    What to paste into the tool

    Task: Draft dependency table with source spans, directed causal links, prerequisite IDs, anonymous diagnostic evidence and bridge targets. From the supplied passage only, list every causal link with its source span. Map each link to the prerequisite knowledge it needs, and map proposed gaps only where the diagnostic responses show evidence (for example the heat-input versus temperature confusion). Mark any gap the diagnostics do not support as unsupported; do not invent learner evidence.

  3. Check each causal link and its support

    Use: You

    Check every causal link and that the diagnostic supports each proposed gap. Correct the table.

    Check

    Keep unresolved items marked. The original passage, supplied definitions and task constraints stay preserved separately for comparison.

  4. Draft the annotated passage and teacher key

    Use: Claude

    Paste the corrected table. Ask for minimal bridges, before and after prediction prompts, and a separate teacher causal-link key.

    Details

    What to paste into the tool

    Task: Draft annotated passage with bridges and stop-to-predict prompts, plus a separately marked teacher causal-link key. Using only the corrected table and the original passage, insert the minimal prerequisite bridges at the evidenced gaps - a bridge adds missing prerequisite knowledge, it does not merely simplify wording, and it must not reveal the prediction answer. Add before/after stop-to-predict prompts at each bridged gap. Keep supplied source facts visually distinct from the instructional additions. Produce the teacher causal-link key as a separately marked section.

  5. Check the bridges and finish

    Use: You

    Check bridges give no answer away, hold against the source and both reasoning paths, and target an evidenced prerequisite gap. Correct errors.

    Check

    Every causal link stays valid, the before/after prompts and separate key distinguish the recorded confusion from the supported explanation, and no learning gain claimed. Preparation only; do not submit learner work, publish material, alter official grades or make placement decisions automatically. Causal mapping, diagnostic alignment and bridge drafting are unevidenced operations; the result rests on the teacher's gates.

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Final check

Teacher verifies every causal link and that the diagnostic actually supports each proposed gap before any bridge is drafted.

Teacher checks bridges do not smuggle in the prediction answer and verifies both expected reasoning paths against the source.

Source reuse rights are respected and supplied facts stay distinct from instructional additions. Preparation only. You review the result; do not submit learner work, publish material, alter official grades or make placement decisions automatically.

Check the result against your original inputs. Approve it before sharing or acting.

What still needs checking
  • No cited evidence confirms causal dependency mapping, diagnostic alignment or bridge drafting as operations; all rest on the teacher's gates.

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