Reviewed June 2026
AI helps us curate rich (inter)disciplinary text sets to deepen and extend students' learning. The four frameworks below give us a way to organize those selections. Run each one to see how it shapes the request, using a worked example.
Prompt: What are supplementary texts that can enhance, extend, or challenge the ideas in [insert core text title here]? Provide examples from art, music, film, and popular culture as well as academic texts.
Prompt: What are two texts that provide a contrasting view on [insert topic, theme, or phenomena here]?
Prompt: Provide a list of sources that would help students understand the sources used by [insert name here] to write [insert text here].
Prompt: Provide a list of texts from a variety of genres and modes that are related to [insert topic, theme, novel, phenomena, etc.].
Cappiello, M.A. & Dawes, T.E. (2021). Text Sets in Action: Pathways Through Content Area Literacy. Stenhouse Publishers.