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WriteRise
Plan, write, and cheer yourself on with Penna the quail — opinion, story, and information writing the SRSD way — read aloud, never red-penned, for grade 3 (ages 8–9).
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Ms. Quilby
#B5651D Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
WriteRise is a grade-3 writing workshop built on SRSD — the child plans first, then writes and says more, with animal writers who each carry one writing move. Penna the quail is the hero; keeper Ms. Quilby never red-pens a draft. A draft is always a work in progress, and the child's own writing is never graded by a machine.
Penna
Planning / POW (hero) — a quail who maps her notes into a plan before writing; planning IS the writing strategy
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Reeza
Opinion / TREE — a fox who stacks up 'because' reasons for what she thinks; reasons ARE argument
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Willow
Narrative / WWW — a weaver bird who weaves the who/where/what/how of a story; story elements ARE narrative
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Facta
Informative — an owl who gathers facts under one main idea; main-idea-with-details IS informative writing
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Snippa
Revising / editing — a beaver who snips and reshapes a draft to say more, clearer; revising IS improving
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Cheeri
Self-regulation — a cricket who sets a goal and cheers herself on; self-talk IS SRSD self-regulation
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Ms. Quilby
The workshop keeper (mentor) — a calm heron who frames each strategy and never red-pens a draft
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What's inside
Learning goal
Plan, write, and cheer yourself on with Penna the quail — opinion, story, and information writing the SRSD way — read aloud, never red-penned, for grade 3 (ages 8–9).
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Ms. Quilby — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How WriteRise handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
WriteRise runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
WriteRise is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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