Content feedback

I'd love to see practice with common root words, their meanings, and their related words used in context. We use myPerspectives through Savaas, and there are currently no great programs I've come across to help students with studying roots, prefixes, suffixes, and word families.

Works Cited and Reference page practices, in-text-citation practices! It would be so useful!

I am teaching students about subordinating conjunctions, but within the exercises they are referred to as "joining words." This creates unnecessary confusion during explicit grammar instruction.

My students really struggle with properly inserting quotes from a text into their writing. This would be a great content idea to add to the platform.

It would be helpful to have dedicated SAT or ACT prep activities.

I think Quill could be a great resource for social studies and science teachers. However, if the articles do not include the exact content that the teacher needs to get through in their courses, they are not likely to use them. Could a feature be added for teachers to upload their own texts/articles and get the same guided "reading for evidence" for students? Or, could more standards-based articles be added for these subject areas?

Close reading activities for short stories that support students in reading comprehension and identifying literary devices such as characterization, metaphor/simile, foreshadowing, symbolism, point of view, imagery, etc. Preferably multiple activities for the same story so there is a lesson for each skill that relates to the same story.

Writing activities that support students in writing literary essays: strong vs weak thesis, identifying theme, identifying the evidence that BEST supports the ideas, quotes and MLA citations, organization of thoughts in a paragraph.

I appreciate the focus on nonfiction, but many of my students struggle with identifying evidence in fiction. I would definitely make use of such a feature!