Breaking Down Overloaded Prompts

This worksheet is designed for students in Grades 5-7 to strengthen writing organization, critical thinking, and digital literacy by learning how to simplify complex or overloaded prompts. Students analyze examples that combine multiple unrelated tasks, identify why they are confusing, and then break them into clear, step-by-step instructions. Through this process, learners practice organizing ideas and focusing prompts on one goal at a time.

Learning Goals

• Organizing Ideas in Writing (Grades 5-7) – Rewrite unclear prompts into focused, logical instructions.
• Sequencing & Step-by-Step Thinking – Break complex tasks into manageable, ordered steps.
• Problem Analysis & Simplification – Identify why overloaded prompts cause confusion and how to fix them.
• AI Prompt Construction Awareness – Understand how clear, focused prompts improve responses from both AI and people.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with middle-grade ELA and technology standards.
• Real-World Digital Application – Connects writing skills to effective communication with AI tools.
• Before-and-After Examples – Helps students clearly see improvements in clarity and structure.
• Flexible Use – Ideal for writing workshops, digital literacy lessons, independent practice, or homework.

This printable worksheet helps students build strong communication habits by teaching them how to recognize and fix overloaded instructions. By breaking prompts into clear steps, learners strengthen organization, sequencing, and critical thinking skills. Suitable for classroom or homeschool use, this no-prep activity reinforces purposeful writing and prepares students to communicate more effectively in academic tasks and AI-driven environments.

This worksheet is part of our Fixing Bad AI Prompts collection.