Bad AI vs. Good AI

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 build reading comprehension, text analysis, and digital literacy skills by comparing sentences written by artificial intelligence and by humans. Students evaluate tone, clarity, coherence, and redundancy to decide the likely author of each sentence, then justify their reasoning, strengthening metacognitive awareness of how language choices reveal authorship and quality.

Learning Goals

• Text Analysis & Comprehension (Grades 4-6) – Students closely read sentences and analyze how they are constructed.
• Evaluating Writing Style & Clarity – Learners identify linguistic clues such as repetition, tone, and flow.
• Media & Digital Literacy – Students develop awareness of how AI-generated text can differ from human writing.
• Metacognitive Thinking – The activity encourages reflection on how readers judge quality, voice, and authorship.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to introduce AI text analysis in an age-appropriate way.
• Evidence-Based Reasoning – Students must explain their choices using specific language features.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Works well for literacy blocks, media literacy lessons, technology units, or discussion activities.
• Supports Writing Growth – Helps students recognize qualities of clear, effective human writing.

This printable worksheet helps students become more thoughtful readers and writers by examining how writing style communicates meaning and credibility. By comparing AI-generated and human-written sentences, learners strengthen analytical skills, digital awareness, and understanding of effective communication. It is a no-prep resource suitable for both classroom and homeschool settings focused on literacy, authorship, and responsible technology use.

This worksheet is part of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Vocabulary.