Penstone Writing: Grade 6 Writing Lessons App

One subscription = one student, Grade 6. $9.99 a month per student. For more than one student, set the quantity to the number of students. Each grade is its own product, so this subscription opens the Grade 6 lessons.

Penstone Writing is a complete writing course for Grade 6, taught inside an app. Grades 6 through 8 move from single paragraphs to thesis statements, introductions and conclusions, multi-source reports, persuasive writing, and literary analysis.

What Grade 6 includes:

• A core path of 13 steps (84 lessons), done in order: Topic Sentences & Closing Sentences, Run-On Sentences, Key Word Notes & Rewrite, Story Retelling, Sentence Starters, Style Tools, Condensed Summary, Thesis Statements, Introductions & Conclusions, Transitions, Multi-Source Report, Persuasive Writing, and Literary Analysis
• 8 optional modules (55 more lessons): Writing from Pictures, Personal Narrative, Literary Critique, Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect, Poetry, Finishing Touches, and Letter Writing. Many modules also offer optional extra practice
• Teach It: lessons open with a short narrated slideshow that shows the skill step by step. Students can go back, replay, or move on at their own pace, or read the lesson instead
• Key word notes to paragraph: Students read a true source, pull three or four key words from each sentence, and write from those notes alone, so the paragraph is built in their own words and their own sentences.
• A Run-On Sentences module early in the path, so complete, correctly punctuated sentences become a habit
• Checks with real feedback: each writing lesson has 3 key word notes checks and 3 paragraph checks, and skill-practice lessons have 5 checks. The notes check looks at each line of notes; the paragraph check scores the paragraph against a clear rubric and points to the exact sentence to fix
• A writing tutor (AI-powered) that never writes for the student. Students can type or talk to it at any time. It answers with hints and questions, stays on writing, and keeps the work in the student's own words
• Parent Review: everything your student submitted in a lesson, with the tutor's feedback and the rubric, in one printable page. Parents can turn rubric items on or off and change the points
• One family start screen: each child gets their own profile and their own saved work
• Progress syncs automatically across devices

All lessons, sources, and examples are original, warm in tone, and written for families. Best on a laptop or tablet. Talking to the tutor works in Chrome, Edge, and Safari.

Try it free: every grade's first lessons are free to try before you buy: Finding the Topic Sentence, and the first key word notes lesson for Grade 6 (The Transcontinental Railroad).

Paper Coach is sold separately. Paper Coach reviews papers your student writes on their own. It is not included here; see Paper Coach.

How access works: After purchase, open My Apps or the Penstone Writing page and log in with the same email you used at checkout. The Grade 6 lessons unlock automatically.

New to Penstone? Take the parent tour to see how a lesson works from start to finish.