AI Interventions?

The other day, I was reviewing a student's performance on the CORE Phonics Survey. I noticed that the student struggled with single-syllable words with short vowel CVC patterns. I am NOT a reading specialist or elementary teacher, but knowing Incremental Rehearsal might be a way to move the needle on this skill, I started thinking about how to quickly develop and implement an intervention with the student.

If I wanted to use Incremental Rehearsal (https://cehd.missouri.edu/ebi/2011/03/31/incremental-rehearsal/) – the video tutorials are excellent! (I digress).

Now, how can I easily get a list of words that fit the student's need. I went to chatgpt and entered this. “Give me a list of 60 non-numbered single-syllable words that have short vowel CVC”

It gave me a list of words but numbered. I then asked for a list without numbers.

Reply:

Certainly! Here's the list of single-syllable words with short vowel sounds in a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) pattern, without numbers:

cat

dog

bat

rat

hat

mat

sat

pat

fat

rat

bat

hop

pop

top

cop

mop

pot

dot

hot

lot

not

got

hut

cut

nut

but

run

fun

sun

bun

mud

bud

rug

bug

jug

hug

mug

tug

jug

drum

gum

plum

hum

sum

mum

yum

gum

hum

duck

luck

puck

tuck

truck

stuck

pluck

cluck

sock

rock

lock

clock

That took me less than 10 minutes. Developing flash cards for IR could take a bit longer.

Then, I wondered about how to create a formative assessment vs CBM where I could use some nonsense words with the same pattern to do spot checks and set mastery at 9/10. Back to ChatGPT. 

“give me 60 single syllable CVC nonsense words” (if it numbers the list, enter “now give me the list without numbers”)

Certainly! Here's the list of single-syllable nonsense words following a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) pattern, without numbers:

zib

fop

jat

gup

hiz

wam

taz

mip

rof

kib

zop

yat

puv

jic

bop

zat

luv

maz

qib

nop

vut

xap

ciz

fum

xog

feb

zol

wip

yop

vek

huv

paf

tox

zin

xeb

wov

yuf

lug

zep

tib

qat

nop

gaf

zom

xup

kav

jip

ruv

woz

cip

zat

vup

xib

nop

kiz

qop

suz

dof

zic

pug

It seems very good at crafting word lists when specific parameters are set. Real and nonsense words. For these, I would create lists of 10 and ask the student to read a list every other week or monthly. (send your nonsense word comments my way, I'm not saying I'd only use this).

I continue to play around with passage generation for fluency texts. That is hit or miss and takes a lot of prompting to narrow the text into lower grade level with adequate length. But, there’s a lot of potential to prompt with a “write a story at the 2nd-grade level about a girl taking a trip”. But, you can also pull up articles in the news, stories online, etc, and cut/paste and tell it to rewrite at a grade level. Using various readability calculators and even interventioncentral's reading probe generator and checking the readability measures gives an idea of where the text lands, grade level wise. I would not recommend using these for assessment but for crafting a text for a student that has a specific interest? There is some potential here.

Next, I hope to play around with AI and DBR forms. For example, ask ChatGPT to write a progress monitoring form for executive functioning using a Likert scale from 1-10 with descriptors at 1, 5, and 10. Try it, it's fairly amazing. If you don't like it, ask another question or reframe the first question.