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Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials PRO

Unlock the rostering, Professional Development, and data tracking tools your district needs to roll out CommonLit’s full program You might already be familiar with CommonLit.org [https://www.commonlit....

10 Texts About Community and Building Friendships

Our team put together this list of CommonLit reading passages that focus on community and friendship. When I was teaching, I loved the opportunity to put literature in front of...

Putting Cognitive Science Research to Practice

Earlier this year, we were discussing ways that we might incorporate machine learning and AI into CommonLit’s digital features. During the discussion, one of our engineers said something that...

Digital Instruction with CommonLit Webinar for NYC Educators

This blog post features a recording of a webinar, helpful how-to videos, FAQ articles, blog posts, and more to help you make the most of CommonLit.org. Thank you...

10 Texts About Friendship, Kindness, and Standing Up for Others

A balancing act of new friends, first crushes, heartbreaks, tears, damaged friendships, social media, lots of pre-teen drama, and an abundance of challenging schoolwork — that pretty much encapsulates what...

Free CommonLit Professional Development for NYC Educators

Through the generous support of the Robin Hood Foundation, CommonLit is providing all New York City public school teachers with access to CommonLit’s Professional Development Portal [https://blog.commonlit....

The Complete Guide to CommonLit's Professional Development Portal

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CommonLit team is very excited to announce the launch of our new Professional Development Portal! This portal includes over 20 on-demand trainings that focus on best practices for...

Teachers: We Hope These Distance Learning Units Can Help

We are here for you — our team developed units with high-interest texts, vocabulary activities, and writing lessons for any virtual learning model CommonLit’s Distance Learning Units were specifically...

Digital Instruction with CommonLit Webinar

This blog post features a recording of a recent webinar, helpful how-to videos, FAQ articles, blog posts, and more to help you make the most of CommonLit.org. Thank...

Supporting Children to Complete CommonLit Assignments at Home

We know that parents and guardians play a critical role in the education of their children. At CommonLit [http://www.commonlit.org/], we have developed our reading program to be...

7 Ways to Improve Student Performance on CommonLit

Text-to-speech, translation in over 25 languages, digital annotations, scaffolded comprehension questions, and more are available on CommonLit to support reading growth. Our team at CommonLit believes that every...

CommonLit’s Guide for Administrators: SY 20-21

After schools began closing due to the spread of COVID-19, CommonLit’s mission of supporting educators with engaging digital learning resources became more urgent than ever before. At CommonLit,...

CommonLit's Summer Reading Challenge: Full List of Reading Lessons

In this blog post, we will provide a comprehensive list of texts for each of the 11 different reading lists for children in grades 3–12 along with discussion questions...

CommonLit's Summer Reading Challenge: How to Keep Students Motivated to Read Throughout the Summer

Set clear goals, track progress, and engage with your children as they complete CommonLit’s Summer Reading Challenge. We know how important it is to keep children reading outside of...

10 Exciting Improvements to CommonLit in 2020

2020 has been a year filled with unprecedented and profound challenges. At CommonLit, we have responded by working tirelessly to provide teachers with the high-quality resources and technology tools...

Veteran NYC Teacher Shares Why She Loves CommonLit’s 360 Curriculum

In this interview, you’ll hear from Anne Goldfeder, an 8th grade ELA teacher who has been teaching at J.H.S. 226 Virgil I. Grissom for twenty years. Anne...

CommonLit's Summer Reading Challenge: Instructions for Getting Started

The CommonLit team has developed 11 engaging summer reading lists that your children can complete through CommonLit’s free Summer Reading Challenge. We’ve included instructions below on how your...

CommonLit's Professional Development Portal: On-Demand Trainings to Support Effective Literacy Instruction

Districts across the country are preparing for a very irregular start to the coming school year. Under normal circumstances, high-quality professional development can be costly and challenging to organize....

How Families Can Participate in CommonLit's Free Summer Reading Challenge

With summer right around the corner, the team at CommonLit is thinking about how to keep students reading at home to help prevent learning loss. Early research is showing that...

NYC Middle School Embraces CommonLit's Digital Curriculum Before and During COVID-19

Throughout the 2019–20 school year, CommonLit has been piloting it’s free Full-Year English Language Arts curriculum in five NYC middle schools. This soon-to-be-released curriculum...

Announcing CommonLit's Distance Learning Support Package

CommonLit’s mission of supporting educators with engaging digital learning resources is more urgent than ever before. To support schools and districts throughout SY 20–21, we’ve created our...

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...

DC Schools, Get Early Access to CommonLit's Guided Reading Sets!

You might already be familiar with CommonLit.org [http://commonlit.org/]: A free literacy program which includes over 2,000 English/Spanish reading lessons for grades 3–12 [https://www....

Monitor Student Learning & Stay In Touch During Remote Instruction

CommonLit’s digital platform allows teachers to check in on individual students as they complete a reading assignment. The CommonLit team is here to help schools that are coping with...

10 Texts About Human Kindness, Disease, Health, and Self-Care

Connect with your students over texts that encourage kindness and self-care in the face of widespread health concerns. The CommonLit team is here to help schools that are coping...