After completing Quill Lessons, you can view student responses to each prompt in the Quill Lesson. Viewing students' responses can help you determine how to differentiate the Quill activities you subsequently assign and inform your writing instruction.
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Complete a Quill Lesson
To view the data reports for a Quill Lesson, the Quill Lesson must be complete. To complete a Quill Lesson, you must choose one of the options below that you are presented at the end of the Quill Lesson.
Choose Small Group Instruction and Independent Practice to pull your flagged students into a small group discussion and direct the rest of your students to complete a follow-up independent-practice activity.
With the small group, walk through the process of writing responses to a few of the prompts from the Quill Lesson and engage the small group in a discussion about improving their responses. You can use the I do/We do/You do model with your small group. Model how to use the relevant writing skill, prompt students to work on the relevant writing skill together, and prompt students to independently work on the relevant writing skill before beginning the follow-up independent-practice activity.
Choose All Students Practice Now to direct all students to immediately begin the follow-up independent-practice activity.
Choose All Students Practice Later to assign the follow-up independent practice activity so that students may complete it at a later time.
Choose No Follow Up Practice to not assign the follow-up independent-practice activity.
When you select the option that you want to use, the Quill Lesson will be complete.
AFter you select the option that you want to use, click the Exit Lesson | View Report button to view the data reports for the Quill Lesson.
View the Activity Summary report for a Quill Lesson
Navigate to the Activity Summary report by clicking the View Reports tab, clicking the Core Reports sub-tab, and clicking the Activity Summary Report option from the dropdown menu.
On the Activity Summary report, a square that corresponds with a Quill Lesson will have an apple icon. Furthermore, if a Quill Lesson has been completed, its corresponding square will be blue. Clicking any blue square with an apple icon on the Activity Summary report will bring you to a student's Activity Analysis report for a Quill Lesson.
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Click here to learn more about how to read the Activity Summary report.
View the Activity Analysis report for a Quill Lesson
Navigate to the Activity Analysis report for a Quill Lesson by clicking the View Reports tab, clicking the Core Reports sub-tab, and clicking the Activity Analysis Report option from the dropdown menu that appears.
Find the Quill Lesson that your students completed and click the arrow to the far right of the Quill Lesson's name.
On the next page, you will see a table of the students in a class who completed the Quill Lesson. Click the arrow to the far right of a student's name to view the student's responses to the prompts in the Quill Lesson.
On a student's Activity Analysis report for a Quill Lesson, you will see each response that the student submitted for each prompt in the Quill Lesson and whether or not the student correctly used the relevant writing skill for each response that they submitted.
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Click here to learn more about how to read the Activity Analysis report.
Have more questions?
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