Quill Connect
Help your students advance from fragmented and run-on sentences to complex and well-structured sentences with Quill Connect. Using the evidence-based strategy of sentence combining, students combine multiple ideas into a single sentence. They then receive instant feedback designed to help them improve the clarity and precision of their sentences.
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The British taxed tea.
The colonists decided to boycott the tea.
How Quill Connect Gives Feedback
In the prompt, students have to join two ideas. Quill Connect serves feedback on hundreds of potential answers. Here is a student’s progression from the first attempt to a strong sentence.
1st Attempt: Show Relationships
Using and is a very common pattern for emerging writers. Quill challenges the student to revise the sentence to express a causal relationship, which is an important step towards conveying complex ideas.
2nd Attempt: Use Pronouns
The student showed the correct relationship but unnecessarily repeated a noun. Quill guides the student towards using a pronoun to make the sentence more fluid.
3rd Attempt: Use Punctuation
The student used a pronoun effectively but left out the comma. Quill provides feedback and shows a model sentence to help guide the student.
4th Attempt: Strong Sentence!
The student wrote a clear and concise sentence!
Quill provides additional feedback to reinforce what the student learned.
PROMPT
The British taxed tea.
The colonists decided to boycott the tea.
How Quill Connect Gives Feedback
In the prompt, students have to join together four ideas. There are many different ways of joining these ideas together, and Quill serves feedback on hundreds of potential answers. Here is a student’s progression from the first attempt to a strong sentence.
1st Attempt: Show Relationships
Using and is a very common pattern for emerging writers. Quill challenges the student to revise the sentence to express a causal relationship, which is an important step towards conveying complex ideas.
2nd Attempt: Use Pronouns
The student showed the correct relationship but unnecessarily repeated a noun. Quill guides the student towards using a pronoun to make the sentence more fluid.
3rd Attempt: Use Punctuation
The student used a pronoun effectively but left out the comma. Quill provides feedback and shows a model sentence to help guide the student.
4th Attempt: Strong Sentence!
The student wrote a clear and concise sentence!
Quill provides additional feedback to reinforce what the student learned.
Teachers can use their scorebook report to quickly see which concepts the student mastered and which ones the student needs to practice.
Teachers see reports that state exactly which errors the student made and which concepts the student mastered.
Teachers have access to over 200 exercises aligned with the Common Core language standards.
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"Quill has been a wonderful tool for my third graders, many of whom are second language learners. We especially love the immediate feedback provided after each practice; it has definitely made us pay closer attention to detail. Quill has greatly contributed to our growth mindsets this year!"