Activity Summary Report
Teachers can use their activity summary report to see which concepts the student has mastered and which ones they need to practice.
Concept Reports
Teachers see reports that state exactly which errors the student made and which concepts the student mastered.
Common Core Language Standards
Teachers have access to more than 500 exercises aligned with the Common Core language standards.
What Skills Are Being Targeted
- Adjectives
- Appositive Phrases
- Articles
- Commonly Confused Words
- Complex Sentences
- Compound Sentences
- Conjunctive Adverbs
- Nouns
- Open Combining
- Parallel Structure
- Participial Phrases
- Prepositions
- Pronouns
- Questions
- Relative Clauses
- Subjects, Objects, Predicates
- Verbs
How Quill Connect Works
Students are prompted with multiple ideas and asked to join them together. There are many different ways of combining them, and Quill serves feedback on hundreds of potential answers. Here is a student's progression from their first attempt to a strong sentence.
1st Attempt
Write Concisely
The student used and to join multiple ideas together. This is a very common pattern for emerging writers. Quill breaks this pattern by challenging students to revise their work.
Prompt:
Patrick Henry opposed new British taxes.
He gave a speech.
The speech was powerful.
The speech was to inspire the colonists.
Student’s Response:
Patrick Henry opposed new British taxes and he gave a speech and the speech was powerful to inspire the colonists.
Quill Feedback:
Revise your work. Put powerful in front of the word it describes to make your sentence shorter and more concise.
2nd Attempt
Show Relationships
While using and to join the two main ideas is grammatically correct, it is not the strongest way of conveying the relationship between these ideas. Students are prompted to use a conjunction that expresses a cause and effect relationship. This is an important step towards conveying complex ideas.
Prompt:
Patrick Henry opposed new British taxes.
He gave a speech with a powerful impact.
The speech was powerful.
The speech was to inspire the colonists.
Student’s Response:
Patrick Henry opposed new British taxes and he gave a powerful speech to inspire the colonists.
Quill Feedback:
And makes sense, but there is a stronger way of joining the ideas. Which joining word helps tell why or give a reason?
3rd Attempt
Use Punctuation
The student showed the correct relationship but left out the comma. Quill provides feedback and shows a model sentence to help guide the student.
Prompt:
Patrick Henry opposed new British taxes.
He gave a speech with a powerful impact.
The speech was powerful.
The speech was to inspire the colonists.
Student’s Response:
Patrick Henry opposed new British taxes so he gave a powerful speech to inspire the colonists.
Quill Feedback:
Good work! Now correct your punctuation.
4th Attempt
Strong Sentence!
The student wrote a clear and concise sentence!
Quill provides additional feedback to reinforce what the student learned.
Prompt:
Patrick Henry opposed new British taxes.
He gave a speech with a powerful impact.
The speech was powerful.
The speech was to inspire the colonists.
Student’s Response:
Patrick Henry opposed new British taxes, so he gave a powerful speech to inspire the colonists.
Quill Feedback:
That’s a strong sentence! “So” helps tell why Patrick Henry gave a speech.