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Lessons about Grief, Trauma, and Loss

Use these lessons to facilitate discussion and help students process complex emotions around tragic events. If you’ve dealt with grief in your own life, you know that it never really leaves you. For some children as well as adults, it can take years to process a traumatic event. These

Presenting CommonLit's New Target Lessons

Check out our new easy-to-use, highly engaging lessons that build specific reading skills! At CommonLit, we’re always thinking of new ways to support students and teachers. That’s why we’re excited to present our new Target Lessons! Target Lessons are short, easy-to-use, highly engaging lessons that support reading,

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Exciting CommonLit Additions for SY 22–23

Canvas integration, 360 Units for grades 11 and 12, and hundreds of new lessons! At CommonLit, we’re always thinking of new ways to support teachers and students. That’s why we’re excited to share some great new additions to our digital literacy program for SY22–23! Canvas IntegrationCommonLit’

NEW: CommonLit Now Integrates with Canvas

Learn about the benefits of this powerful integration and how to unlock it for your team. At CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that our award-winning digital literacy program is as accessible and easy to use as possible. That is why we’re proud to announce that we are offering

CommonLit's Assessment Series Empowers Schools with Actionable Data

Schools can unlock 3 benchmark assessments for grades 3–12 to track student growth with the purchase of School Essentials PRO. CommonLit’s Assessment Series is easy-to-use, high quality, and affordable. Teachers can administer up to three specialized benchmark assessments throughout the school year that each include three grade-level reading

Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials PRO

Get school and district-wide access to professional development, benchmark assessments, data tracking tools, and onboarding support to ensure success with CommonLit’s digital program!If you are ready to request a quote, please fill out this quick form or email partnerships@commonlit.org. You might already be familiar with CommonLit.

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11 Ways CommonLit Supports Elementary Learning

Learn how CommonLit’s elementary program can support your teachers and students. CommonLit’s award-winning, research-based digital literacy program has hundreds of great lessons for elementary schools. Our digital library also includes longer-term planning resources, digital tools, and data tracking resources that help teachers engage students in rigorous, meaningful learning.

Introducing the CommonLit 360 Curriculum

It’s free. It’s easy to use. It’s fully digital. CommonLit 360 (Edition 1.0 COVID-19 Emergency Release Version) is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive curriculum for English Language Arts. When I was a first year English teacher in 2009, I used to feel a sense of panic every Sunday

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CommonLit 360: A Free Curriculum with Affordable Wraparound Services

Wraparound services include professional development, school and districtwide data reports, and benchmark assessments I am so excited to share that after three years of work, CommonLit has published its brand new curriculum, CommonLit 360! It’s a free curriculum — the first of its kind available on an interactive digital platform.

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Getting Started with CommonLit Español

Over 800 authentic Spanish texts and digital tools — all for free!Looking for free Spanish literacy resources? The CommonLit Español library has grown significantly in the last couple of years and now has over 800 Spanish texts. Our library is unique because it features a variety of literary texts, poetry,

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CommonLit: Built for All Learners

Text-to-speech, translation in over 30 languages, digital annotations, scaffolded comprehension questions, and more are available on CommonLit. “I teach students from our lowest performers to our honors students, and I use (CommonLit) with all of them the same way. It’s well-suited for all my students’ needs.” - Kayce Giglio,

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Usage of CommonLit Linked to Greater Student Gains

We hired an external research team to measure CommonLit’s effectiveness. We are thrilled to share the story of our impact. CommonLit’s nonprofit mission is to build the best reading program — one proven to help students learn — and to make it completely free for teachers and students online. This