We're ready for the 2025-26 requirements...
- Multi-modal text sets (articles, videos, infographics, etc.)
- Scenario-based writing prompts
- Peer revision task
- Technology enhanced items (drag & drop, table match, drop down, multi-select, hot text reorder)
- Milestones-aligned assessments are professionally scored to the official rubric for accurate and timely results.
- Analytical data provides specific writing insights at the grade, class, and individual student levels for targeted instructional choices.
- Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)-based lesson plans are provided with a full scope and sequence to guide teachers down a clear pathway to stronger essays.
Assessment Details
- Students who use our online program have a testing experience that is very similar to the state writing assessment in both structure and difficulty.
- Each assessment includes 3 multi-modal text sets followed by technology enhanced questions. Students will then receive either peer revision tasks or an extended writing task based on their grade level in alignment with the Georgia Milestones requirements.
- Digital tools in our online platform allow for students to practice and become comfortable with digital composition.
Analytical Writing Data
- Essays are professionally scored using the updated 8-point Georgia Milestones rubric.
- Administrative Data Reports give school leaders and coaches the information they need to stay informed on their school’s progress. This aggregated data view allows the ability to spot trends and areas for improvement for targeted feedback and support to teachers.
- Teacher’s Class Performance Data Reports provide a valuable outline of individual student essay performance, helping teachers tailor their instruction to meet the needs of each student.
- Individual Student Data Reports are accessible to students through our online portal, empowering them to take ownership of their learning and track their progress over time.
Standards-Aligned Instructional Resources
- Our Scope & Sequence/Pacing Guide provides an easy to-follow suggested order of topics and lessons to use with students.
- Targeted Lesson Plans aligned to each data point in our scoring criteria, and are available for topics ranging from introductions to attributions, and transitions to development of support. Lessons include professionally designed instructional activities and lesson plans built to engage students and facilitate growth in both reading and writing.
- New resources to support updates to the ELA writing standards and Milestones Assessment including multi-modal text samples, scenario practice prompts, and peer revision practice questions along with narrative, expository, poetry, and opinion craft techniques and practices.
