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A Letter From Our Founder: Unveiling the CommonLit Rebrand

CommonLit has reached an exciting turning point. When you navigate to CommonLit, you’ll notice that things look a lot different – that’s on purpose, and we hope you like it....

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...

CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0 for grades 9-10 is coming!

CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive, full-year ELA curriculum for grades 6-12 designed to support student growth in reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Our curriculum provides teachers with researched-based instructional...

Announcing New CommonLit 360 Units for Grades 9 and 10

CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive, full-year ELA curriculum for grades 6-12 designed to support student growth in reading, writing, and speaking and listening skills. Our curriculum provides teachers with researched-based...

Embracing Change: How an expert teacher grew to trust CommonLit 360

0:00 /1:46 1× When Jennifer Fuller joined the Lakewood Middle School team in September 2023, there was excitement in the air. The previous fall, Lakewood Middle School adopted...

CommonLit Integrates with Canvas

Learn about the benefits of this powerful LMS integration and how you can unlock it for your team. At CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that our award-winning digital literacy...

Unlock Training, Tech Integrations, and Priority Customer Support to Ensure Success with CommonLit

CommonLit's hassle-free onboarding process makes it easy for teachers to quickly begin using CommonLit’s full digital literacy program. Adopting a new ed-tech program always feels like a...

CommonLit Pilot Leads to ELA Curriculum Adoption in Battle Ground Schools

District's ELA Curriculum Adoption Process Leads to CommonLit Battle Ground School District is located in Washington state and home to nearly 12,000 students and 800 teachers. In...

Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials PRO

Unlock 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! CommonLit is an online digital...

CommonLit’s Assessment Series Can Provide a Preview for High Stakes End-of-Year Exams

Imagine this…it’s springtime, and your school is in full-on test prep mode. Teachers have spent massive amounts of time and energy making sure students are well-equipped to perform...

CommonLit Assessments are Strongly Predictive of State Test Results in New York and Florida

Researchers find positive correlation between Assessment Series and end-of-year state tests Two recent studies discovered meaningful and positive correlations between how students performed on CommonLit's Assessment Series benchmark...

Student Reading Growth During the 2023-2024 School Year

A study of the 2023-2024 school year showed that CommonLit usage predicted reading growth CommonLit conducted a study of the 2023-2024 school year that included usage and achievement data from...

CommonLit Pilot Drives Student Growth and Strong Teacher Practice in Alpine School District, UT

Pilot of CommonLit Leads to Student Growth When the Alpine School District outside of Provo, Utah, began searching for a new English Language Arts curriculum, they opted for a methodical...

Improvements in students’ writing scores related to CommonLit use

Study demonstrates a relationship between CommonLit use and student writing growth A study of students’ writing growth at 22 research partner schools in three states during the 2022-2023 school year...

9 Spooky Stories for the Eeriest Time of Year

This October, haunt your classroom with thematically rich horror, suspense, and spooky short stories! CommonLit’s array of horrifying ghost stories and haunting dystopian tales are guaranteed to send shivers...

10 Inspiring Texts to Start the New School Year

Start the new year with these inspiring texts about education. For students, coming back from summer vacation means getting back into the swing of things with school routines, teachers, and...

How Cape Fear MS builds confident communicators with CommonLit 360

One glance into Melissa Merritt’s ELA classroom was all that was needed to recognize something special: Eighth grade students sat clustered at table groups, fervently debating the fine line...

Everything You Need to Know about CommonLit's All-Green EdReports Rating for Grades 6-8

EdReports is a nonprofit organization that independently reviews instructional materials for K-12 education. With the mission of supporting educators in identifying high quality instructional materials, the EdReports content review team...

Students Using CommonLit Saw Significant Reading Gains of 2-6 Additional Months of Learning

A new evaluation of CommonLit shows significantly higher reading growth for students in CommonLit classrooms Exciting reading gains were observed in a recent study on CommonLit’s efficacy in 531...

Announcing: CommonLit 360 for Middle School Earns All-Green EdReports Rating

We’re proud to announce that CommonLit 360 for grades 6-8 has received a top rating from EdReports, with all-green scores in every gateway. A green score represents the highest...

CommonLit 360 Provides Complete ELA Resources for grades 6-12

An engaging curriculum featuring integrated reading and writing lessons, vocabulary, discussion opportunities and more With the recent publication of the latest CommonLit 360 units for juniors and seniors, the full-year...

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...

Jumpstart Your CommonLit 360 Adoption with On-Site Professional Development

CommonLit 360 Foundations Jumpstart PD CommonLit is excited to introduce our newest professional development offering — Foundations Jumpstart! Our expert facilitators will provide on-site, hands-on guidance over two days, ensuring that...

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...

Culminating Tasks: Summative Assessments That Create Alignment and Foster Engagement

How to increase curricular cohesion and spark student interest with CommonLit 360  Teachers spend weeks, sometimes months, preparing students for end-of-unit exams and summative assessments. There are reviews, study guides,...