"Quill is a service that provides an updated take on the old writing worksheets that most of us used in elementary school and middle school. The service offers more than just the writing practice activities, but that is its core feature."
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter's insight:
An infographic that looks at recent studies on textin and how it is impacting students grammar. To learn maore about How this happens and why it matters check out the site. 
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Everyone makes mistakes, but that notion seems to go out the window anytime syntax is misused. This infographic may help us with some of those common but tricky situations.
Judith Sansweet's curator insight,
September 29, 2014 11:20 PM
Good ideas for points to check before submitting your document for proofreading.
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"Emphasizing students need to learn proper grammar can sometimes feel like we are talking about 20th century skills because, in this day and age, we seem to focus on STEM, the 4 Cs and 21st century technology skills. I appreciate the importance of all these topics.. but being able to communicate effectively through writing is truly a basic life skill every person in this world needs. Being able to utilize good grammar is absolutely essential..."
Beth Dichter's insight:
NoRedInk has made many changes to their website and if you have not looked at it recently you may want to travel over and check it out. The site is to help students learn writing and grammar skills. Now you can: * Create assignments and quizzes without doing any grading * Target Common Core skills using your students’ interests * Provide students with unlimited help whenever they need it * Track growth using our color-coded heat maps To help students stay engage they "generate questions from each student’s favorite celebrities, hobbies, TV shows, and friends." When it is time for an assessment of student work they will "drag in commas, click words to capitalize them, throw out unwanted punctuation, and edit the text directly" resulting in a more authentic assesment. And as we are asked to personalize instruction this site will help in the areas it covers. To go directly to NoRedInk click on this link: https://www.noredink.com/
Jennifer Hurley-Coughlin's curator insight,
September 10, 2013 3:43 PM
We used this site last year a lot and were really hoping for new strands. The kids love the personalization.
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NoRedInk is a new website that "helps students practice and review their grammar...teachers and students personalize the practice assignments and quizzes with the names of their favorite bands, sports teams, movie or TV stars and friends." Audrey Walters reports on NoRedInk in this post, sharing the story of how it came to be and explaining how it adjusts questions based on student response. There are also screenshots within the post. NoRedInk provides exercies on apostrophes, commas, sentence fragments, and subject-verb agreement with more to come. To go directly to NoRedInk: http://www.noredink.com/.
Rose Mount's curator insight,
August 1, 2013 11:45 PM
A great tool.I recommend to all the students learning English 
Dani Hunter's curator insight,
September 9, 2013 5:33 PM
This article gives the whole play-by-play of NoRedInk, a website that helps with grammar through personalized assignments centered around the student's interest. It sounds like a wonderful resource for the classroom, since grammar is (as I've heard) one of the hardest things for an English teacher to teach. There are so many parts to grammar that it's hard to focus on every thing, especially since different students struggle with different aspects of grammar.
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ZooWhiz is FREE for teachers and kids to use at school (and at home or parents may purchase a Premium account). Teachers may create free accounts for their students; there is a comprehensive curriculum correlated with over 17,000 educational activities which includes math, reading, word skills, punctuation and grammar; and teachers may access detailed reports by child and class; activities for ages 5 - 15. A site worth checking out to use with your students.
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Do your students need to practice with grammar and punctuation? Quill provides worksheets for students in Grades 1 - 8 that have spelling and grammar errors. Students have to correct the errors. Quill corrects the papers, showing students what they did correctly, or what needs to be corrected.
Create your own classroom, provide students a code to sign-in, and pick your assignments. Students work at their pace and you can view their work through the dashboard.
As Richard Byrne states in this post "Having the pre-made activities at your disposal and having the opportunity to quickly see how your students did on each activity will free up some of your time."
There is a video that explains the site in more detail, or you may go directly the the website: http://www.quill.org/