MY Access!® is a web-delivered assessment and instructional tool that is proven to dramatically improve students' basic writing skills in as few as six weeks. Students who use MY Access! also attain higher scores on high-stakes writing events such as state-mandated assessments, high school exit exams, and college admissions tests.

This award-winning program diagnoses and assesses the writing ability of students in grades 4-12 and at the college level and provides:

• A fun, interactive writing environment;
• More opportunities for students to practice their writing skills;
• Immediate grading of writing assignments;
• Prescriptive feedback that motivates students to write, edit and learn.

Using MY Access!, educators have seen their students edit and revise the same essay as many as 12 times in order to improve their score! Since MY Access! is a web-based program and work is stored in an online portfolio, students can work on their assignments anywhere, anytime they have access to a computer and the Internet, thereby gaining unlimited opportunities to practice writing. The program's powerful scoring engine grades students' essays instantly, so students can immediately see their progress via a holistic (overall) score, analytical scores and targeted feedback in the areas of:

• Focus & Meaning - Cohesiveness and consistency in perspective and main idea
• Content & Development - Content breadth, support of theme, elaboration
• Organization - Logical sequence of ideas and discourse
• Language, Use & Style - Word/sentence complexity and variety, tone/voice
• Mechanics and Conventions - Adherence to rules of edited American English

For students who are native Spanish or Chinese speakers, this feedback can be provided in the native language at the teacher's discretion.

More than 500 writing topics (prompts) are currently available in a variety of genres, including narrative, informative, persuasive, literary (text-based) and expository. These prompts are aligned to state standards as well as popular textbook series typically used in Language Arts classrooms and provide cross-curricular writing opportunities in areas such as science, math, and social studies. Teachers can also create their own prompts based on their instructional needs. Learn More