Most writing tools help during the draft. But zeros happen because students didn’t understand what they read — or what the prompt was asking. WRITE it! solves that.
State averages of Texas ECRs that scored a 0 — Grades 3–8 plus English I & II, the past four STAAR cycles.
| Grade | Weight | 2026NEW | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd | 19.23% | 49%▼ | 52% | 39% | 42% |
| 4th | 19.23% | 52% | 38% | 31% | 46% |
| 5th | 19.23% | 23%▼ | 39% | 48% | 25% |
| 6th | 17.86% | 25% | 24% | 39% | 23% |
| 7th | 17.86% | 24%▼ | 30% | 27% | 20% |
| 8th | 17.86% | 19%▼ | 22% | 28% | 23% |
| Eng I | 15.60% | 42% | 32% | 40% | 25% |
| Eng II | 15.60% | 36% | 35% | 31% | 25% |
Four years of data. WRITE it! launches into this moment with a toolkit built for every part of the writing process.
You already have an ECR writing process. WRITE it! gives you a bank of coached activities, demos, and games to plug into any part of it — from a 5-minute warm-up to a full ECR.
Set a focused reading goal first — then coach purposeful highlighting and evidence collection tied to the prompt that comes next.
Box the prompt, name the genre, define keywords, turn it into a question, and verify every keyword shows up in the thesis.
Coached 1:1 check-ins built into every phase — the same questions you’d ask in a real writing conference, asked at the right moment for every student.
The save-the-essay check. How on-prompt are you? Two-color highlighting catches drift before submit.
A growing library of ECR exemplars, scrambled-essay puzzles, and review games at every grade band.
Bell-ringers, exit tickets, station rotations — quick activities to drop into any classroom routine.
There’s a difference between assigning writing and teaching writing. Most platforms jump in once a student is already drafting. WRITE it! coaches the work before the draft — where the score is actually decided — the way a great writing teacher would.
In the same way an athlete doesn’t just scrimmage to prepare for game day, every learned skill takes practicing the small parts of it. Writing is no different.
The three demos below are live and embedded right here on this page. They’re just a slice of what’s coming — the full platform launches with a growing bank of activities, exemplars, puzzles, and games for every grade band.
Students set their Pay-Attention-To list before they read — then highlight the passage by skill, one color per PAT. The coach nudges them when they drift off-PAT and tells the teacher which skills are showing up in real student annotation.
Click any PAT chip on the right to arm the highlighter, then drag-select text in the passage.
This is the real tool, embedded right here. → Try it for yourself.
Most off-prompt essays start the same way — students never really understanding what the prompt is asking them to do. The 7-step coached process boxes the prompt, names the genre, highlights and defines the keywords, turns it into a question, and verifies every keyword shows up in the thesis.
Click on the part of the page you think is the actual prompt — the coach will respond.
The real STAAR ECR format. Click around. →
Highlight prompt keywords in orange to check that every paragraph stayed on-prompt. Highlight the first three words of every sentence in blue to spot repeating patterns. The submit gate refuses to let students hand in an essay that drifted.
Arm the orange highlighter first, then drag-select prompt keywords inside the draft.
Brittaney’s signature classroom technique, built in. →
Click a tab or use the arrows to scroll through.
Know exactly where each student got stuck.
Run it your way — tight coaching or open practice.
A growing bank of ready-to-use activities and exemplars.
Texas-built. Aligned exactly to the rubric that matters.
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