{"id":"par-newsletter-week-todos","audience":"parents","category":"summarizing","technique":"format","title":"Turn the school newsletter into this week's must-dos","free":true,"task":"Your daughter Maya is in 2nd grade, and her school's weekly newsletter is long and covers every grade. You want a short list for your phone's notes: exactly 4 numbered lines in date order, each starting with the day and date like \"Mon Nov 9:\", covering only what Maya's family must do or know (deadlines and no-school days), not optional events or other grades. Under 60 words, plain text. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","materialLabel":"The school newsletter (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"LINCOLN ELEMENTARY WEEKLY BULLETIN - Week of Nov 9\n\nA note from Principal Alvarez: What a wonderful fall we're having! Thank you to every family who came out for the Harvest Walk. Our Kindness Club collected 214 cans for the food pantry.\n\nPICTURE DAY is Tuesday, Nov 10! Order forms are due that morning. Retakes will be in December.\n\nVeterans Day, Wednesday Nov 11: No school for students. Offices closed.\n\n5th grade: Science Museum field trip is Friday Nov 13. Permission slips and $12 due Monday Nov 9.\n\n2nd grade: October reading logs are due Monday Nov 9. Please sign the bottom.\n\nThe Scholastic Book Fair runs all week in the library, open before school and during lunch. Volunteers welcome - sign up online!\n\nPTA meeting Thursday Nov 12, 6:30 pm in the cafeteria. All are welcome. Pizza provided.\n\n2nd grade: Please send in one empty cereal box for our math measuring project by Friday Nov 13.\n\nLost and found is overflowing! Unclaimed items will be donated Nov 20.\n\nKindergarten: Pajama story time Friday.\n\nUPDATE (added Friday afternoon): Because of a scheduling conflict with the photographer, PICTURE DAY HAS MOVED to Thursday, Nov 12. Order forms are now due Thursday morning. Sorry for any confusion!","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":60},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Just saying \"summarize this\"","why":"The AI walks through every section of the newsletter, with headings and bold, and you still have to dig for your dates.","fix":"Give the shape: \"Exactly 4 numbered lines, each starting with the day and date like 'Mon Nov 9:'. Plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText","r2"]},{"title":"Not saying which kid it's for","why":"The AI can't tell which items matter to you, so it keeps the field trip, the book fair and the PTA meeting.","fix":"Add: \"Only what a 2nd-grade family must do or know. Skip optional events and other grades.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Missing the late update","why":"The correction is at the very bottom, and the AI often keeps the first Picture Day date it read.","fix":"Add: \"Check for updates at the end and use the newest date.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 60 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each line instead: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says which kid it's for","patterns":["2nd","second grade","maya"]},{"label":"Asks for numbered lines","patterns":["\\b(4|four)\\b.{0,20}(lines?|items?|numbered)","numbered"]},{"label":"Starts lines with the date","patterns":["mon nov","day and date","start.{0,20}(date|day)","date order","chronolog"]},{"label":"Watches for updates","patterns":["update","newest","latest","changed","correction"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no headings","no formatting"]}],"hint":"A newsletter is written for every family at once. Tell the AI which grade you care about, what counts as a must-do, and the exact shape you want each line in.","rubricLabels":["Uses the updated Picture Day (Thursday Nov 12, order form due that morning), not the old Tuesday Nov 10 date","Covers exactly the 4 things for a 2nd-grade family (reading log due Mon Nov 9, no school Wed Nov 11, Picture Day with order form Thu Nov 12, empty cereal box by Fri Nov 13) and leaves out optional events and other grades (book fair, PTA meeting, 5th grade field trip, kindergarten, lost and found)","Each line starts with the day and date (like \"Mon Nov 9:\"), the lines are in date order, and there is no intro or note before or after the list"]}