It doesn't promise to save you time. It gives you a way to find out, in your own hours.

Log your prep minutes for four weeks, then mark each routine Keep, Tweak or Drop.

How the book works

Four weeks, measured in your own minutes

The book is built around a prep log you fill in yourself. The routines go in the middle.

Day one: your first routine: No chapter on what AI is. You start with Routine 1, worked end to end, and learn to repair a prompt that comes back wrong.
Week 1: your baseline: You do your usual prep and log the minutes, task by task. That week becomes the number you compare against.
Weeks 2-4: run the routines: You pick routines for planning, differentiation, rubrics and family notes, and check every output before it reaches a student.
End of week 4: Keep, Tweak or Drop: You set each routine against the same task done by hand and decide. The answer comes from your log, not from a promise.

What the book gives you

30 routines, the checks to catch what the chat gets wrong, and the guardrails

Written for US classrooms: Common Core, COPPA, FERPA. The routines work in whatever chat assistant your district approves.

Every routine on the same card: The exact instruction to type, an illustrative sample, three common mistakes with the line that fixes each, an offline version and a Cost Box. Routines that reach students add a card for grades 3, 4 and 5.
Plan and produce: Routines 2-10: Lesson launches, hooks, exit tickets, sub plans, math practice sheets, word problems, vocabulary banks, work centers and homework pages.
Differentiate without dumbing down: Routines 11-20: Leveled texts that keep the science, reading guides, ELL sentence frames, scaffolds that don't give the answer away and extension tasks.
Rubrics and family notes: Routines 21-30: Process rubrics, comment banks, kid-language rubrics, newsletters, progress notes, conference scripts and translations you can review.
Checks for what the chat gets wrong: The Prompt Repair Cycle takes you from a broken prompt to a working one. Then an answer-key check, a Key Facts Survive checklist, an Observable-or-Not test for rubrics and a fact-check pass for anything that goes home.
Guardrails first: Three modes for who touches the keyboard, five questions to email your district, nine red lines for student information, the Name-Free Rule and a one-page letter to families.
Where the answer is no: A Do-Not-Automate table and straight answers to ten hard questions, from plagiarism and grading to bias and what to do when your district has no policy.
One unit, end to end: A grade 3 water cycle unit shows the routines working together: 14 prompts with their raw output and every correction.
The Print-and-Go Pack: All 24 templates are printed in full inside, ready for the copier. Nothing to download.

Routine 11: Three-level text

Try a routine

Asking the chat to quote where each fact appears means you check a list instead of rereading three passages.

You are a grade {curso} science teacher writing for mixed readers.
Rewrite the article below at three levels:
- Level A: sentences under 10 words, one idea each.
- Level B: sentences under 15 words.
- Level C: grade-level text, close to the original.
Every level must keep all {numero} MUST-KEEP facts. Use the exact term "{termino}" in every level and define it in plain words.
Do not add any fact that is not in the article.
Example of handling a term at Level A: "[short sentence with KEY TERM]. That means [plain-words meaning]."
After the three texts, list each MUST-KEEP fact and quote the sentence in each level where it appears.
[MUST-KEEP list pasted]
[article pasted]

Every MUST-KEEP fact appears in every level. (Tick each one against the text itself, not the chat's quote list.)

The key term is spelled the same and defined in every level.

Causes are still causes ("because," "so"), not "helps."

Nothing appears that is not in the source. Underline anything new and delete it or check it.

The Must-keep list names the source it was matched in.

Grade
How many facts are on your Must-keep list: 5
Key term: echolocation

Look inside

Real pages from the book

The routine you just tried, its checklist and the two templates that go with it, as they are printed.

Prompt system: the leveled text, in four blocks: The broken prompt, its flawed output, the diagnosis and the repaired prompt.
The Key Facts Survive checklist: The check you clip to every leveled set before it goes to the copier.
Template 15 — Leveled text, versions A/B/C: The three versions side by side, with the quoted sentence for each Must-keep fact.
Template 15 — Leveled text, versions A/B/C (continued): Where each Must-keep fact appears, the repair prompt used and the correction markup key.
Template 16 — Key Facts Survive checklist: Tick each fact, level by level. If a box stays empty, the text doesn't go out.

Which edition?

The Kindle edition

On Kindle every template is in full, but e-readers can't print.

Kindle ($6.99): All 30 routines, the guardrails, the water cycle unit and every template, on your e-reader.

Before you buy

Questions teachers ask about the book

Do I have to download anything or sign up?: No. All 24 templates are printed in full inside, ready for the copier. Nothing to download.
I already have a chatbot. Why do I need this book?: A chat gives you a generic plan. The book gives you 30 routines for grades 3-5, each with the exact instruction to type, three common mistakes with the line that fixes each one, and an offline version.
My district hasn't approved AI yet. Is this still useful?: Every routine has an offline version for days with no device, or no permission yet. You also get three modes for who touches the keyboard and five questions to email your district.
Is this another book explaining what AI is?: No. This book skips the explainer. You run your first routine on day one.
Does it promise to save me time?: The book doesn't promise to save you time. You log your prep minutes for four weeks, with week 1 as your baseline, then mark each routine Keep, Tweak or Drop in your own hours.
What about student privacy?: Nine red lines: the kinds of student information that never go into a chat window, plus the Name-Free Rule and a one-page letter to families.
Does it work for grade 5?: Yes. For routines that reach students, a card shows how the routine shifts across grades 3, 4 and 5.
Paperback or Kindle?: The 8.5 × 11 in paperback is the copier-ready edition, one template per page. On Kindle every template is in full, but e-readers can't print.

About the author

Daniel Bayón

Daniel Bayón has spent two decades putting technology where nobody expected it yet. He founded Juguetrónica in 2000, then Aerorobótica — Spanish-built professional drones, back when most people had never heard the word — and Robotrónica, which deployed humanoid robots running custom software in shops, classrooms and events. He created The Robot Museum, Spain's first robotics museum.

Today he runs AI Help You, building conversational assistants and automations that serve real people every day. He has designed AI training for public institutions, including a course for primary and secondary school teachers whose trainers he prepared and supported in the classroom. He writes about what he sees work and fail in production, not about what gets announced.

He is not a classroom teacher. He built this book with an AI research and review process designed to catch what AI gets wrong: every claim traced to its source, every fact re-checked before publishing. It is the same habit the routines teach you, checking every output before it reaches your students.

How this book was made

Researched, drafted and checked with AI, inside a process built to catch what AI gets wrong

The numbers below come from the project's own records.

None of this replaces your judgment. The routines are built so that you check every output before it reaches anyone.

39 evidence notes from 30 sources: They back the book's claims. 10 candidate sources were thrown out because the quoted passage could not be found on the page.
4 rounds of separate review passes: For repetition, accuracy, voice and whether a reader can act on it: 375 changes applied, 80 suggestions rejected with a written reason.
25 date-sensitive facts re-checked: Each one against its primary source, on September 30, 2026.

The series

Practical AI for Teachers

AI for Elementary Teachers: This book, in English, written for US classrooms.
IA para docentes de Primaria: The Spanish-language book in the series. Coming soon.

Run your first routine on day one

Then measure it in your own minutes and decide what stays.

Contents

What's inside

Every chapter with its units and routines, as titled in the book.

Chapter 1: Start Here: Your Baseline and Your First Routine Today: What This Book Assumes You Already Know · The 4-Week Prep Log and Your Week-1 Baseline · Routine 1 Today: Draft Next Week's Plan and Repair the Prompt · The 30 Routines at a Glance
Chapter 2: Guardrails: Keyboard, Red Lines and the Letter Home: Who Touches the Keyboard · Nine Red Lines and the Name-Free Rule · The One-Page Letter to Families
Chapter 3: Plan and Produce: Routines 2-10: Routines 2-5: Lesson Launch, Hook, Exit Ticket, Sub Plan · Routines 6-10: Worksheets, Word Problems and Practice Sets
Chapter 4: Differentiate Without Dumbing Down: Routines 11-20: Routines 11-15: Leveled Texts That Keep the Science · Routine 11: Three-level text · Routines 16-20: ELL Supports, Scaffolds and Extension Tasks
Chapter 5: Rubrics, Feedback Prep and Family Notes: Routines 21-30: Routines 21-25: Process Rubrics and Comment Banks · Routines 26-30: Newsletters, Progress Notes and Conference Scripts
Chapter 6: Where the Answer Is No: The Do-Not-Automate Table · Ten Hard Questions, Part 1: Plagiarism, Handwriting, Uploads, Grading, Bias · Ten Hard Questions, Part 2: Accuracy, Time, Policy, Families, Students
Chapter 7: One Unit, End to End: The Water Cycle in Grade 3: Log Week 2: Prompts 1-6, Raw and Corrected · Log Weeks 3-4: Prompts 7-14, Three Leveled Texts, Rubric and Student Samples · End of Week 4: Read Your Log and Decide
Chapter 8: The Print-and-Go Pack: How to Use the Pack, and the 24 Templates · Templates 1-8 · Templates 9-16 · Template 15 — Leveled text, versions A/B/C · Template 16 — Key Facts Survive checklist · Templates 17-24

Edition of October 1, 2026

No changes since the edition of October 1, 2026

Last check: September 30, 2026.

The book cites facts that can change: which chat assistants students may use, district and state guidance, surveys of teachers and families. Each one was re-checked against its primary source before publishing. This page says what was checked, when and against which source.

Copilot Chat on school accounts: the age limit for students: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against Microsoft Learn.
The Gemini app on Google Workspace for Education: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against Google's Workspace admin documentation and the Workspace Updates blog.
Gemini on school accounts: only if the district turns it on: Corrected. Checked September 30, 2026 against the Workspace Updates blog.
Gemini on personal accounts: the age limit: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against Google's Gemini help pages.
How many states have published AI guidance: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against AI for Education's state tracker.
What families of elementary students know about school AI policy: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against CRPE's report on the USC survey.
What parents want from school AI policy: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against Education Week.
Public support for teachers using AI to prepare lessons: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against the PDK poll.
How teachers use AI and the time they estimate: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation and the EEF trial report.
Accuracy of AI-leveled texts and AI lesson plans: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against the published studies, Stanford SCALE, CITE Journal and The 74.
Bias in AI teacher assistants: Still current. Checked September 30, 2026 against Chalkbeat.