Fun & Free Reading Program
and Writing Program for Middle School
We support you, so you can support your students!
Reading Practice
Deliver adaptive and differentiated reading practice that meets students where they are, motivating them to grow.
Writing Practice
Deliver weekly writing practice so students can rehearse essential writing standards and skills. Writing is auto-graded with instant feedback.
Teacher-Driven Lessons
Confidently facilitate highly engaging lessons with learning routines that teach reading, speaking, and writing skills.
Reading Assessments
Monitor students' skills in real-time with embedded reading assessments and don't lose valuable instructional time to long tests.
Writing Assessments
Provide common assessments 2-3 times a year. Start with a baseline assessment to see what your students know and can do.
Literacy Teacher Guides
Gain access to over 60 reading, speaking, and writing routines that enhance instruction and help students meet literacy standards.
Reading Practice
We provide powerful reading practice that enhances learning and develops students into independent readers.
- Deliver adaptive and differentiated reading practice that meet students where they are, motivating them to grow.
- Enhance instruction by rehearsing close reading skills.
- Introduce students to a variety of high-interest texts across subjects, deepening their knowledge of critical content and subject-specific vocabulary.
- Build reading stamina and fluency.
- Support readers with strategic scaffolds that respond to individual student's needs, leading to greater confidence.
How it works:
Writing Practice
Support your young writers like never before. Ink Writing Universe auto-grades short response and process essays while providing instant, personalized feedback to your students. Stop carting your papers back and forth to your house. Let us grade them for you. We can grade a class set of papers in a few minutes, freeing you up to do other things with your time. We're confident you can think of something to do.
- Deliver weekly writing practice so students can rehearse essential writing skills (especially writing with and about sources).
- Engage students in a transferable writing process that they can use as they move through the grade levels.
- Guarantee students turn in their best work with our Proofreader.
- Help students develop writing fluency in preparation for state and local writing exams.
- Improve students' ability to talk about writing and improve the overall quality of student writing through collaborative writing workshops.
- Give instant, personalized feedback to students ensuring every student grows from quality writing feedback every week.
- Support data-driven instruction by assigning short writing tasks more often that target specific moves in writing.
How it works:
Teacher-Driven Lessons
Gain access to our lesson library of highly engaging articles, poems, and short stories. Each lesson provides fun learning routines that require students to practice reading, critical thinking, collaboration, and writing skills. In addition to the lessons being fun, this is a perfect Tier 1 support.
- Deliver instruction with confidence with our step-by-step instructional moves to ensure students effectively engage in critical thinking and academic conversations about text.
- Explicitly teach deep reading comprehension skills.
- Enjoy fully supported lessons with vocabulary practice, sentence frames, strategies to support Language learners, classroom-ready handouts, and tips and suggestions on how to add complexity and make it fun.
- Turn on "Pause and Discuss" questions and immediately gain access to built-in discussion starters to help students understand what they are reading.
- Facilitate text-dependent writing lessons that teach students how to break down a prompt, analyze a text, and incorporate textual evidence into original writing.
How it works:
Reading Assessments
Evaluate students' reading ability while they rehearse critical deep reading comprehension skills without losing valuable instructional time.
- Auto-grade close reading standards authentically by removing multiple choice and engaging students in highlighting text and identifying key terms to truly understand what students know and are able to do.
- Provide immediate and continuous feedback to your students and you can use that real-time feedback to target instruction.
- Increase reading practice and instruction while continuously monitoring your students progress.
- Motivate students with second chance opportunities and support the learning process with smart reading scaffolds.
How it works:
Writing Assessments
Start the school year with a baseline writing assessment. Don't worry. You don't have to grade it. The last thing you want to do is grade essays the first two weeks of school. We are happy to grade them for you. Then, we will share your class writing data with you. You can start the year knowing exactly what writing skills to teach your students. How great is that. Then, you can assign a mid-year and end-of-year assessment to monitor how well your young writers are growing.
- Provide writing assessments 2-3 times a year so professional teams like PLCs and grade level teams have writing data to drive decisions.
- Auto-grade your essays instantly and deliver real-time results with meaningful feedback.
- Spend more time coaching writing and less time evaluating it.
- Enjoy reading your students' writing without worrying about grading them.
- Be data-driven and confidently respond to the writing needs in each class.
How it works:
Start the year with a baseline writing assessment. You can choose one from our assessment library, build a new assessment, or use an assessment you have used in the past. Select or build your assessment and assign it to a class. Done! Results are instant and your students immediately start learning from our detailed feedback and kid-friendly rubrics.
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Educators and Students Love Quindew
Pedagogy is the difference
Quindew leverages sound teaching pedagogy, research on adolescent literacy, and classroom best practices to deliver reading experiences that enhance teaching and learning. With explicit, skill-based pedagogy, students can develop the critical reading, speaking, and writing skills they need to grow and achieve in school and in life. Our proven pedagogy contributes to a positive literacy culture and ignites confidence and enthusiasm in students. Ask the other guys what pedagogical practices they use to help students grow as readers and writers because pedagogy is the difference maker.
Get More Instructional Time
Quindew assesses students while they practice. Instructional time is not lost to long, multi-day exams. Instead, students never stop learning!
Keep Minds On
Students' minds are always engaged while on Quindew. Students have opportunities to learn and fix mistakes. This is what brains love to do.
Build Confidence
Students gain confidence and feel smarter as they read and write on Quindew. We treat students with respect and acknowledge that they are intelligent and capable of doing hard things.
Develop Skills that Transfer
Students learn essential reading and writing skills and academic routines that transfer to other academic tasks and subjects. The literacy skills we teach are powerful and college ready!
Read and Write Authentically
We pride ourselves on creating authentic reading and writing experiences that mirror effective classroom instruction and lesson design. Students are required to think and they love it!
Have Fun and Enjoy Literacy
Our collaborative learning routines, obsession with quality instruction, high-expectations, and engaging content creates a fun atmosphere filled with curiosity, critical thinking, and happiness!
Explicitly Teach Deep Reading Comprehension Skills!
Identify unfamiliar words
Number paragraphs
Predict text type
Identify author's purpose
Define in-text vocabulary
Analyze transitional language
Identify textual evidence
Determine point of view
Make inferences
Identify central claims
Identify opinions
Identify reasons/reasoning
Analyze text structure
Trace sequence of events
Analyze paragraph structure
Identify phrases and clauses
Identify prefixes and suffixes
Analyze rhetorical devices
Free Reading Program
- Forever-FREE account for teachers and students
- Weekly practice of deep reading comprehension skills
- Reading routines that build confidence, skills, and knowledge
- Engaging, high-interest texts
- Transferable skills that give greater access to curriculum
- Reading experiences that teach critical, independent thinking
Students GROW
with Quindew!
