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Essay Expert
Guided essay building with the Essay Progress Tracker
Purpose
Essay Expert walks students through a full essay one step at a time with vocabulary, sentence, and structure support at each step. When the draft is done students send finished work to TBASE for ASE/AI scoring, which closes the loop from supported drafting to honest feedback. It is built for students who can think well but stall when the blank page appears.
EEEssay Expert
$29 for 36 weeks. The Essay Expert Conferencing Companion adds guided conference prompts and a printable teacher report.
What it is
Essay Expert is guided essay building for students who stare at a blank page. The Essay Progress Tracker walks writers through a full essay one step at a time, with vocabulary, sentence, spelling, and structure support at each step.
When the draft is done, students send finished work to TBASE for ASE/AI scoring, which closes the loop from supported drafting to honest feedback.
Teachers can also run whole class writing conferences with the Conferencing Companion while students draft in Essay Expert.
Who it is for
- Students who can think well but stall when the essay must get written
- Teachers conferencing with writers during independent writing time
- Small groups that need sentence and structure scaffolds that fade
- TBASE schools that want drafting support matched to their scoring
Key features
- Essay Progress Tracker
- A visible step path keeps writers moving from plan to final paragraph without getting lost mid essay.
- Word, sentence, and structure help
- Vocabulary choices, sentence starters, spelling support, and organizers scaffold each step, then fade toward independence.
- Conferencing Companion
- Teachers run whole class writing conferences with guided prompts during independent writing time.
- TBASE scoring handoff
- Finished essays move to TBASE essay scoring with one step, so feedback arrives aligned to the same STAAR/SST expectations students practiced for.
Grades 3 to 8 fit
Essay Expert supports ECR writers across Grades 3 to 8. Younger students lean on sentence and vocabulary scaffolds while older students use the tracker to manage full length essays with paired passage evidence.
Try Essay Expert with your class
$29 for 36 weeks. The Essay Expert Conferencing Companion adds guided conference prompts and a printable teacher report.
Works well with
- TBASE
Build strong ECR essays with interactive writing tools, then use feedback aligned to STAAR/SST that teachers can review with students.
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What's included
- Essay Progress Tracker
- Vocabulary, sentence, and structure support
- Conferencing Companion
- TBASE scoring handoff
Helpful resources
Questions teachers ask
- Does Essay Expert score essays?
- Essay Expert supports drafting. When the draft is done, students send finished work to TBASE for ASE/AI scoring.
- What is the Conferencing Companion?
- It lets teachers run whole class writing conferences with guided prompts during independent writing time.
- What grades does Essay Expert support?
- Essay Expert supports ECR writers across Grades 3 to 8.
