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Life & fun · July 3, 2014

Quill - Interactive Writing Activities

Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for middle and high school students.

Quill - Interactive Writing Activities launched on July 3, 2014 with 37 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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Quill is a free, non-profit platform offering writing and grammar activities for elementary through high school students. It provides nonfiction reading passages paired with AI-powered writing prompts that encourage students to develop comprehension and construct arguments supported by evidence from texts. Rather than multiple-choice questions, students practice writing responses that require precision and critical thinking. The platform has engaged millions of students in building literacy skills.

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Quill.org, a non-profit, provides free literacy activities that build reading comprehension, writing, and language skills for elementary, middle, and high school students. 13 million students have written 3 billion sentences on Quill. Provide your students with nonfiction texts paired with AI-powered writing prompts, instead of multiple-choice questions, to enable deeper thinking. Students read a nonfiction text and build their comprehension through writing prompts, supporting a series of claims with evidence sourced from the text. Quill challenges students to write responses that are precise, logical, and based on textual evidence, with Quill coaching the student through custom, targeted…from quill.org

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