Making millions of students better readers and writers

2022 Year In Review

This year CommonLit published impactful research, added hundreds of new library lessons, introduced Target Lessons, launched new 360 units, and more. 2022 was an exciting year for CommonLit. We introduced lots of new content, published some exciting research, and continued to make teacher’s lives easier and help students excel

Bring CommonLit 360 to Your Schools with School Essentials PRO Plus

Get the professional learning, unit assessments and data tracking your team needs to successfully implement CommonLit’s comprehensive ELA curriculum! At CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that all students have the reading, writing, and communication skills needed to be successful. That is why we created a comprehensive ELA curriculum,

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 literacy program! School Essentials PRO is our most popular package and costs just $3,250 You might already be familiar with CommonLit.org, a digital literacy program

Progress Monitoring Made Easy with 360 Unit Skills Assessments

Quickly collect the formative data you need to seamlessly measure student reading comprehension, identify skill gaps, and plan future instruction as you teach CommonLit’s 360 Curriculum Is your team planning to implement CommonLit’s 360 curriculum at your school or district? If so, our Unit Skills Assessments are the

Exciting News: Updates Coming to CommonLit 360 for Middle School (Grades 6-8)

Our new and updated units are responsive to research and teacher feedback, and have been created with student and teacher growth in mind. Big news: CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0 for Middle School (grades 6-8) will be fully available by July 2023! Edition 2.0 is an upgrade to the

How CommonLit 360 Uses Research-Backed Practices to Improve Student Reading Comprehension

Learn how CommonLit 360 is aligned to the Science of Reading’s best practices for teaching reading comprehension to secondary students. Introduction The Science of Reading is a body of research incorporating psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to explain how students learn to read. The Simple View of Reading is

7 Women’s History Month Lesson Plans for Elementary Students

Discover the women’s voices that have shaped the literary world. Despite making up half the population, women are often underrepresented in classroom resources. Fortunately, our digital library is filled with amazing women authors. Dive into some of our favorite lessons that meet ELA standards, boost reading comprehension, and will

3 Exciting Ways to Celebrate Women’s History Month in Your Classroom

CommonLit’a online digital literacy program offers tons of resources to support teacher lesson planning and unit planning. In this blog, we’ll explore resources featured in our digital library that would be great for a lesson or mini-unit to celebrate Women’s History Month with your students. Whether you’

7 Original Environmental Short Stories for Elementary Students

CommonLit’s online digital literacy program offers an abundance of texts to best support elementary reading comprehension, including CommonLit Originals. CommonLit Originals are exclusively found on CommonLit and include stories by famous authors like Gary Soto and Lucy Tan.  Additionally, the CommonLit Originals project aims to build a robust and

Find Women’s History Month Resources for Your Classroom with These Lessons by Powerful Women Authors

Celebrate Women’s History Month with our favorite texts by women authors for middle and high schoolers. Discover poetry lessons, biographical texts, and short stories by diverse women authors that will engage your students and increase reading comprehension. Find reading lessons by famous women authors like Zora Neale Hurston, Julia

10 Stories of Black Women Who Shaped the United States

Celebrate the achievements, contributions, and excellence of Black women as we transition from Black History Month to Women’s History Month. CommonLit’s online digital literacy program provides teachers with access to thousands of compelling, free texts and comprehension questions. In this blog post, we will highlight ten biographies and

7 Texts by Contemporary Black Authors for Secondary Students

CommonLit’s digital literacy program will help enhance your reading curriculum with these lessons which include guiding questions, Paired Texts, Related Media, and other tools to boost student reading comprehension. The following poems, memoirs, and short stories by Black authors, will foster meaningful discussions around real world experiences such as

12 poemas para compartir con sus estudiantes

Motive la lectura y el análisis de la poesía en su clase. No hay nada como la magia de leer un hermoso poema. Las imágenes descriptivas, el lenguaje figurativo y las diversas interpretaciones brindan a los estudiantes excelentes oportunidades para debatir sobre distintos temas y reconocer los recursos literarios utilizados

10 textos para trabajar el aprendizaje socioemocional con niñas y niños

> “De todos los conocimientos posibles, el más sabio y útil es conocerse a sí mismo” - William Shakespeare. Como educadores muchas veces nos preguntamos cómo podemos hacer para que nuestros estudiantes alcancen sus metas personales y construyan relaciones sanas consigo mismos y con los demás. Una pregunta que, en el

10 cuentos cortos que encantarán a adolescentes y jóvenes

Impulse el amor por la lectura con estos textos literarios Los cuentos cortos son una excelente opción para involucrar a sus estudiantes en la lectura. En CommonLit hemos seleccionado cuentos cortos que incluyen giros de trama, suspenso, finales inesperados y mensajes aleccionadores. Estos textos encantarán a sus estudiantes por la