Helpful skills practice

My Take

I really like that students have to type their answers and that the program will give feedback to the sentence as a whole, not just on the skills being assessed. Students have to pay attention to what they are doing, and it helps my high schoolers recognize some of their bad texting habits that have crept into their classroom writing. It would be nice if there were more higher reading and skill level activities. Also, some of the scoring methods are a bit odd, and it can be hard to distinguish skill proficiency from the overall score alone, but if you dig into the data you can get a good sense of what issues the students were having. The whole-class lessons are also good to get all students involved, and my kids like seeing their own examples and analyzing their own mistakes. Unfortunately, there are not self-paced versions of the whole class lessons, so it can be difficult to address absent students who miss the lesson.