Quill provides learning activities that engage students in the writing process through web applications teaching grammar and writing skills. Teachers have a dashboard that shows them how their students are progressing on the Common Core standards.
Quill provides a diagnostic that assesses students on their writing skills and then recommends up to eight weeks of instruction based on the results. Teachers can also pick from over 300 activities built from 42 Common Core standards, and can then view the results in detailed reports. Some of our most popular activities include complex sentences, comma usage, capitalization, verb tense agreement, and commonly confused words.
Each activity takes 10 minutes in length, and students typically complete their assignments in class. As students are working, they receive instant feedback on their work. This feedback helps students quickly master writing skills, and it saves teachers dozens of hours spent grading. Teachers can view reports that show which students need the most in-class help and which students are ready to advance to more challenging materials.
Students use the method of their choice to combine two sentences based on an excerpt from 1984 by George Orwell. Students practice using various types of phrases and clauses to convey meaning and add variety to combined sentences.
Students practice using articles by rewriting sentences using a or an. This is activity 1 of 2 in the series.
Students practice using articles by rewriting sentences using a or an. This is activity 2 of 2 in the series.
Students practice using articles by filling in the blank with a, an, or the.
Students practice writing with adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases by combining three or four sentences. This is activity 1 of 2 in this series.
Students practice writing with adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases by combining three or four sentences. This is activity 2 of 2 in this series.
Students practice writing sentences with both adjectives and adverbs by combining three sentences.
Students practice writing sentences with both adjectives and adverbs by combining three sentences.
Students practice listing adjectives by combining three sentences.
Students practice using adverbs by rewriting sentences, changing the underlined adjective to an adverb.
Students practice using adjectives and adverbs by rewriting sentences, choosing between the provided adverb and adjective.
Students practice deciding whether an adjective or an adverb is needed by filling in the blank with one of the provided options.
Students learn to write descriptive sentences using adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases in this teacher-led lesson.
Students learn to write complex sentences that include adjectives and adverbs in this teacher-led lesson.
Students practice using adverbs and cumulative adjectives by combining four sentences so that two cumulative adjectives are in the right order before the appropriate noun and the adverb of manner is placed correctly.
Students practice using adjectives and adverbs by rewriting sentences, choosing between the provided adverb and noun.
Students practice using adverbs of manner by combining two sentences. This is activity 1 of 3 in this series.
Students practice using adverbs of manner by combining two sentences. This is activity 2 of 3 in the series.
Students practice using adverbs of manner by combining two sentences. This is activity 3 of 3 in a series.
Students practice using adverbs of manner by combining two sentences. Students must change the adjective in the second kernel to an adverb before combining a sentences.