Culturally Responsive Seasonal Content: Three Prompts
Culturally Responsive Seasonal Content: Three Prompts 🎃
It's Thursday night and you need engaging seasonal content for tomorrow. Generic resources don't fit your students' cultural backgrounds, reading levels, or the standards you actually teach.
This workflow helps you generate differentiated, culturally responsive materials that honor your students' identities and experiences. Go from "I need something NOW" to classroom-ready resources in the time it takes to drink your coffee.
The Three Prompts
🧠 Prompt 1: Create Base Content
Hi [agent name]! I teach [grade level] in [location/context] and need an informational text about end-of-October traditions from around the world. My students include multilingual learners ([languages spoken]) and come from diverse cultural backgrounds. Please include indigenous perspectives ([local indigenous peoples/traditions]), Día de los Muertos, Diwali, and Samhain alongside Halloween. Align to [your curriculum standards], and write at a [grade level] reading level with supports for language learners.
✏️ Prompt 2: Differentiate for Different Readers
Perfect! Now create two differentiated versions: one for students reading at [below grade level] (simplified vocabulary, shorter sentences, more visual descriptions) and one for advanced readers at [above grade level] (deeper cultural analysis, more complex sentence structures). For the below-level version, include vocabulary definitions, cultural connections for [specific student populations], sentence frames, and highlight cognates for [language] speakers.
📄 Prompt 3: Add Assessments and Extensions
Excellent! Now create comprehension questions aligned to [your curriculum standards] that progress from literal recall to cultural analysis. Include specific vocabulary support (academic language plus content terms), and design one extension activity where students can interview family members or research their own cultural traditions around this time of year. Make sure the activity honors diverse family structures and cultural backgrounds.
How to Adapt This 🔧
- Any seasonal content: Works for December traditions, Lunar New Year, spring celebrations, end-of-year reflections—just swap the topic
- Different student populations: Adjust the cultural traditions and languages to match your actual classroom
- Different grade levels: Modify reading levels and complexity of cultural analysis
- Add visuals: Use TeamTeacher's image generation to create culturally appropriate illustrations
What You'll Get ✨
This workflow creates a complete set of differentiated, culturally responsive materials:
- An informational text about diverse traditions that reflects your students' backgrounds
- Two differentiated versions (below and above grade level) with appropriate scaffolds
- Comprehension questions that progress from literal to analytical thinking
- An extension activity that connects classroom learning to students' lived experiences
- Vocabulary support and language scaffolds for multilingual learners
You'll finish with everything you need for tomorrow—and materials that honor who your students actually are.
🌳 Pro tip: This template is your seasonal content generator. Bookmark it and swap out the traditions for whatever's coming up next. The structure works year-round.