ELA Standards

We've built over 300 research-based writing, grammar, and proofreading activities organized by the Common Core standards. We are a nonprofit organization, and all of our activities are and will always be free. Each of our activities takes approximately 10-15 minutes. Teachers using Quill in a 1:1 classroom tend to assign Quill activities as a warm up exercise at the beginning of a class or as a group activity with the whole class.

5.1b Form and use the perfect tense

Lesson 1: Present Perfect Tense

Students learn to use the present perfect form (e.g. have eaten). This is lesson 1 of 2 in the perfect tense lesson series.

Lesson 2: Past Perfect Tense

Students learn to use the past perfect form (e.g. had eaten). This is lesson 2 of 2 in the perfect tense lesson series.

Present Perfect (Follow-Up for Lesson 1)

Simple Past vs. Present Perfect 1

Students will fill in the blanks with the past or present perfect form of the provided verb.

5.1b Use past participles

Been & Eaten 1

Students rewrite sentences, changing "be" and "ate" to their participle form.

Gone, Lost, & Made 1

Students practice writing irregular past tense verbs by rewriting sentences, changing the underlined present tense verb to past tense.

5.1e Correlative conjunctions

Either/Or 1

Students rewrite sentences, adding "either" in the appropriate places.

Not Only/But Also 1

Students rewrite sentences, adding "not only" and "but also" to the appropriate places.

5.2a Use colons and commas in a list

Colons & Commas in a List 1

Students rewrite sentences, adding colons and commas to lists.

Proofreading Commas & Colons in Lists - Baking a Cake

Students add commas and colons to lists throughout a text.

5.2b Use commas after introductory words

Commas with However & Still 1

Students rewrite sentences, adding commas after "however" and "still."

Proofreading Commas after Introductory Words - A Snow Day

Students add commas after introductory words throughout a text.

Proofreading Commas - Day of the Dead

Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.

Proofreading Comma Usage - Artist Georgia O'Keeffe

Students find and correct a variety of comma errors within a text.

5.2c Use a comma to set off the words "yes" and "no"

Commas with Yes & No 1

Students rewrite sentences, adding commas in the appropriate places.