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Engaging Elementary Texts About Different Cultures

CommonLit offers fantastic literary and informational texts that can be used to bolster your students’ understanding of the wide and wonderful world around them! Great texts can transport you to...

CommonLit Elementary Texts About Natural Disasters

This engaging multi-genre set of texts supports literacy and builds students’ knowledge on an important STEM topic. No matter if your students live in the mountains, on the coast,...

Elementary Texts on CommonLit about Making a Difference

These texts show students how just one person can make a difference in a local community or the world! Being a kid can sometimes be frustrating. With rules at home,...

Engaging Elementary Short Stories About Sports

These great short stories about sports for grades 3–5 from CommonLit’s library offer valuable lessons about winning and losing! We’ve all been there. A children’s sports...

Training and Professional Development Opportunities with CommonLit

Learn all about CommonLit’s free training opportunities and Professional Development packages for schools. Here at CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that teachers and administrators have the training and...

CommonLit's Professional Development Portal: Supporting a Successful Implementation of CommonLit 360

In my previous role as a Secondary ELA instructional developer for a school district in Florida, I had the exciting opportunity over the past couple years to work in partnership...

CommonLit 360 Interactive Reading Lessons: Everything You Need to Know

CommonLit 360’s reading lessons provide the pre-reading activities, during-reading questions, and assessments you need to ensure your students make meaningful progress. CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive digital...

CommonLit's Commitment to Being "Free and Open"

How CommonLit uses Creative Commons licenses to open up their educational resources CommonLit provides teachers and students with educational materials that are free and open, forever. Why? Because we believe...

5 Ways that CommonLit 360 Supports English Language Learners

CommonLit’s free curriculum for grades 6–12 supports English Language Learners with explicit vocabulary instruction, scaffolded comprehension and accessibility tools, and differentiated lesson options — all with an inclusion lens....

Everything you need to know about the Interactive Digital Writing Lessons in CommonLit 360’s ELA Curriculum

CommonLit’s writing lessons are complete with instructional resources, accessibility tools for students, and easy-to-use data reports. CommonLit 360 is free and available for teachers on CommonLit.org....

Middle & High Schools: Join a CommonLit 360 Curriculum Pilot

Learn about an opportunity to pilot the new CommonLit 360 units for grades 6–10 and get exclusive access to coaching, resources, assessments, and support for SY 2021–22 and...

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...

CommonLit’s 2021 Summer Reading Challenge

CommonLit’s Summer Reading Challenge is back for Summer 2021! Families can choose from brand new reading lists full of engaging stories. CommonLit’s Summer Reading Challenge is back for...

How CommonLit 360 Can Help Address "Learning Loss"

CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12 that accelerates reading comprehension for struggling readers. Educators everywhere are thinking about how to maximize instructional time now that...

Call For High Profile Authors

Build CommonLit’s free library for millions of students and teachers by writing a short story for publication About CommonLit CommonLit is an educational technology nonprofit based in Washington, DC,...

The CommonLit and Georgia State University Readability Prize Project

Our Commitment to Research At CommonLit, we believe that it is our responsibility to add to the learning and education research fields, and involve stakeholders like teachers and students directly...

Affordable Professional Development to Support an Effective Rollout of CommonLit 360

Learn about the on-demand Professional Development that CommonLit has designed to support your team’s use of our new comprehensive ELA curriculum, CommonLit 360 CommonLit is thrilled to announce...

Tips for Test Prep with CommonLit in 2021

Practical tips for leveraging CommonLit’s library and flexible assignments to give your students additional practice Weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education made an important announcement regarding state...

Introducing the CommonLit Assessment Series

CommonLit's Assessment Series was introduced during the '21-'22 school year. For updated information about CommonLit's Assessment Series for the '23-'24...

Sneak Peek: CommonLit 360 Curriculum, Coming June 2021

If you love CommonLit, you’re going to really love this: We have launched a free, comprehensive, ELA curriculum for grades 6–12! CL360 includes: reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and...

NEW Short Stories on CommonLit for Middle School Students

Exciting reading passages have been added to CommonLit’s library for grades 5–8 from famous authors like Sandra Cisneros, Neil Gaiman, and more! The CommonLit team is excited to...

Wrapping Up 2020 at CommonLit

Reflecting on new features, exciting new content in our library, and our commitment to giving students and teachers high-quality resources. Simply put, it’s been a year. Between a...

Ignite Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials and CommonLit School Essentials PRO

This blog has been archived. To find the latest information for School Essentials PRO, please check out this blog post. CommonLit’s new Assessment Series with three benchmark exams for...

NEW Short Stories on CommonLit for Elementary and Middle School Students

Exciting new short stories for grades 4-8 from famous authors like Gary Soto, Meg Medina, and more! The CommonLit team is excited to announce that over the next few...

CommonLit's Assessment Series Empowers Schools with Actionable Data

Three benchmark assessments for grades 3–12 available to track & monitor student progress at the school and district level. CommonLit is proud to offer the CommonLit Assessment Series to...