Quill Lessons
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Lesson Plans
Each slide is accompanied by a step-by-step guide that offers optional talking points and discussion prompts. Lesson plans can be downloaded and printed for easy use while presenting to students.
Teacher Modeling
Teachers control interactive slides and can model for students live. Customize prompts to make them relevant and engaging for students.
Student Open Response
Each lesson offers opportunities for students to respond to open-ended questions with their own writing. Teachers can share students’ answers with the group anonymously to initiate discussions.
Intervention
As teachers receive student responses, they can privately flag responses of students who require additional support. At the end of the Lesson, teachers can see all flagged students and pull them aside to provide clarification, additional practice opportunities, and further feedback on their answers.
What Skills Are Being Targeted
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Appositive Phrases
- Articles
- Complex Sentences
- Compound Sentences
- Fragments
- Nouns
- Parallel Structure
- Participial Phrases
- Subjects, Objects, Predicates
- Verbs
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How Quill Lessons Works
Class-Wide Interactive Activities
Quill Lessons provides a series of interactive slides that allow an entire class to work together with their teacher. The slides contain interactive writing prompts, and students will write their answers on their devices. Teachers can then project selected answers back to the class to facilitate a discussion.
Lead The Lesson
Each slide contains a step-by-step guide to help you introduce new writing skills and content topics. The step-by-step guide also includes suggestions on how to discuss students’ answers and how to model strong writing to them.
Discuss Student Answers
See your student answers in real-time, and facilitate a conversation by selecting both strong and weak answers to project to the class. As a class, students can discuss why certain sentences are stronger than others.
Identify Students For Small Group
When the students respond, you can click on the “flag” button to select students who may need extra support. Students don’t see that they are flagged, but at the end of the lesson, you can pull aside flagged students for small group instruction.
Questions and Answers
How much time should I allot for a Quill Lesson?
Lessons are intended to take about 20-30 minutes to complete. The length of time depends on how long you choose to spend discussing each answer. While in most cases five minutes is enough, teachers may want to facilitate a longer conversation.
How can I support both struggling students and advanced learners in lessons mode?
You can also use the flagging features to privately select students for extra support. If a student’s response requires intervention, you can click on the flag next to their answer, and they will show up in a list for you at the end of the lesson.
Can I skip slides?
Yes, the slides and the step-by-step guide are a starting point to introduce these concepts to your learners. You can customize the lessons for your learners by editing all of the prompts and questions.
How do I project a Quill Lesson?
After you have launched a lesson, click on the “Launch Projector” icon in the navigation bar at the top. This will open a new window with student facing slides only.
For PC:
- Go to Control Panel or right-click on your desktop.
- Choose Display Settings.
- In the Multiple Display dropdown, select Extend Desktop to This Display.
For Mac:
- Go to System Preferences.
- Go to Displays.
- Next, select the Arrangement tab.
- Uncheck Mirror Displays.
How many answers should I display at a time?
We suggest that you project 2-3 student responses to allow for discussion. More than four responses might not all fit on the screen, and will require scrolling on the part of the students. If you want to discuss more than four answers, try projecting 2-3 options to start.