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 practice choosing between better and best or worse and worst by rewriting sentences with the correct underlined option. This is activity 2 of 2 in the series.
Students practice recognizing the difference between between and beyond by rewriting sentences with the correct word.
Students combine sentences to create 7 sentences about Black women's suffrage. This is an advanced, un-cued sentence combining activity.
Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.
Students practice writing a variety of sentence structures by combining two or three sentences using the method of their choice.
Students practice writing a variety of sentence structures by combining two or three sentences using the method of their choice.
Students practice writing irregular past tense verbs by rewriting sentences, changing the underlined present tense verb to past tense.
Students rewrite the underlined words as contractions.
Students practice writing irregular past tense verbs by rewriting sentences, changing the underlined present tense verb to past tense.
Students practice writing compound sentences by combining two sentences using but or so. Students must choose the joining word that best connects the ideas. This is activity 1 of 3 in this series.
Students practice writing compound sentences by combining two sentences using but or so. Students are provided the correct joining word to use on each prompt. This is activity 1 of 3 in the series.
Students practice writing compound sentences by combining two sentences using but or so. Students must choose the joining word that best connects the ideas. This is activity 2 of 3 in the series.
Students practice writing compound sentences by combining two sentences using but or so. Students are provided the correct joining word to use on each prompt.
Students practice writing compound sentences by combining two sentences using but or so. Students must choose the joining word that best connects the ideas. This is activity 3 of 3 in the series.
Students practice writing compound sentences by combining two sentences using but or so. Students are provided the correct joining word to use on each prompt. This is activity 3 of 3 in the series
Students practice using prepositions by rewriting sentences with the correct underlined option.
Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.
Students practice writing irregular past tense verbs by rewriting sentences, changing the underlined present tense verb to past tense.
Students practice using different modal auxiliary verbs by rewriting sentences using the correct underlined option.
Students practice forming contractions by rewriting sentences, changing the underlined words to a contraction.