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105:365 | Quill

ByJM

My buddy posted a link to Quill.org, a website with free writing and grammar activities. While Quill is marketed to K-12, it’s valuable for adult learners working to build their literacy skills. To that end, CrowdEd Learning will be sharing alignments to the College & Career Readiness Standards for over 500 lessons, activities, and assessments from Quill later this week.

Here is an overview of the tools and activities on the Quill.org website:

  • Quill Connect: Helps students advance from fragmented and run-on sentences to complex and well-structured ones.
  • Quill Lesson: Enables teachers to lead whole-class and small group writing instruction.
  • Quill Diagnostics: Quickly determine which skills students need to work on with Quill’s diagnostics.
  • Quill Proofreader: Teaches students editing skills by having them proofread passages.

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