12 CommonLit Texts Elementary School Teachers Will Love New to CommonLit? A long-time CommonLit fan looking to refresh your lesson plans? Use these amazing texts in your elementary school classes! New unit time: a blur of lesson... Amanda Riddle Amanda Riddle August 12, 2019 · 5 min read
15 CommonLit Texts High School Teachers Will Love New to CommonLit? A long-time user looking to refresh your lesson plans? Use these texts in your high school classes! CommonLit is a digital literacy program with over 2,... Amanda Riddle Amanda Riddle August 12, 2019 · 7 min read
15 CommonLit Texts Middle School Teachers Will Love New to CommonLit? A long-time user looking to refresh your lesson plans? Use these texts in your middle school classes! CommonLit is a digital literacy program with over 2,... Amanda Riddle Amanda Riddle August 12, 2019 · 6 min read
3 Ways to Effectively Use CommonLit's Annotation Tool with Students CommonLit’s annotation tool is a great way to have students interact with a text! Annotating a text is an important way for students to track their thinking about what... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher August 4, 2019 · 5 min read
Annotations, Google Classroom Gradebook, & More: What's New on CommonLit An Overview of the Best New Features for the New School Year It’s August, that hazy summer month when the air is mixed with the smell of barbecue, sunscreen…... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher August 4, 2019 · 3 min read
Best Practices for Using CommonLit Vocabulary Lessons As teachers, we know that it’s critical for our students to have a vast vocabulary. The more words that our students know, the more readily they’re able to... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 31, 2019 · 6 min read
Making Meaning out of Standards Performance Data Leverage CommonLit’s standards data for individual students The most important thing for a teacher to know is how her students are doing. A good teacher understands this, and has... Geoff Harcourt Geoff Harcourt April 29, 2019 · 6 min read
Opportunity to Pilot CommonLit's Free Curriculum CommonLit is a nonprofit that operates a high-quality free online library of over 1,500 standards-aligned English Language Arts texts and lessons. Currently, over 10 million teachers and... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher March 20, 2019 · 2 min read
Opportunity to Pilot CommonLit's New Intervention for Struggling Readers CommonLit is a nonprofit that operates a high-quality free online library of over 1,500 CCSS-aligned English Language Arts texts and lessons. Currently, over 9 million teachers and... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown March 6, 2019 · 3 min read
Why One District Leader Chooses CommonLit's Interim Assessments Terri Bradshaw is the Secondary Literacy Coach (6–12) for Blount County Schools In Tennessee. For this Q&A, Terri spoke with CommonLit’s Director of School Partnerships, Rob... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher February 20, 2019 · 4 min read
CommonLit's Interim Assessments Produce Actionable Data How CommonLit’s team makes valid, reliable assessments Interim Assessments play a critical role in school districts. They are used to inform curriculum changes, identify student learning gaps, and to... Bryn Bogan Bryn Bogan February 12, 2019 · 3 min read
How CommonLit's Curriculum and Assessments Helped Spark Drastic Gains Jayne VanNosdall is the Curriculum Supervisor of English (6–12) for Brick Township Public Schools in New Jersey. For this Q&A, Jayne spoke with CommonLit’s Director of... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher February 11, 2019 · 7 min read
Announcing: CommonLit is now a Premier Partner of Google for Education CommonLit’s coursework integration enhances Google Classroom student experience Washington, DC — CommonLit, a free online reading program for students in grades 3–12, is excited to announce it is now... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 16, 2019 · 1 min read
CommonLit's Next Frontier: Building High-Quality Curriculum When CommonLit’s website first launched in 2014, the organization had an ambitious goal — provide teachers with access to high-quality reading passages. Five years later, CommonLit has grown in... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 13, 2019 · 2 min read
Data-Driven Instruction with CommonLit “Year-end tests are autopsies, not assessments: they explain what went wrong after it is too late to change course.” — Paul Bambrick-Santoyo in Leveraging Leadership At CommonLit, we believe... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 4, 2019 · 3 min read
CommonLit ❤'s Google Classroom Classroom management just got easier thanks to the enhanced integrations between two of teachers’ favorite free classroom resources: CommonLit and Google Classroom. CommonLit is a proud Premier Partner of Google... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher December 12, 2018 · 4 min read
A Peek Inside CommonLit's Plan to Raise Student Achievement At CommonLit, our dedicated team of educators is committed to raising student achievement and ensuring that all students are on a path to college and career readiness. In fewer than... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher October 22, 2018 · 3 min read
How to Set Up Your Students on CommonLit Looking to set up your classes and students on CommonLit but aren’t sure how? Fortunately, we’ve made it easy and straightforward to do so. If you haven’t... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 31, 2018 · 2 min read
How To Make Sure Your Company Culture Doesn't Break You “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This post was originally published in Forbes [https://www.forbes.com/sites/fastforward/2018/06/20/how-to-make-sure-your-company-culture-doesnt-break-... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown June 20, 2018 · 3 min read
Students Will Love These 10 Funny Reading Lessons Spark joy with these great picks from the CommonLit library It is easy to forget with the rigorous demands of testing that reading also needs to be fun for students.... Amanda Riddle Amanda Riddle May 16, 2018 · 4 min read
5 Steps for Great Extended Constructed Responses In this post, teacher Cara Popecki gives tips to make writing effective, collaborative, and fun. It’s on every major college readiness and state exam, and it also elicits the... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher May 2, 2018 · 4 min read
Multiple Choice Relay Races for Test Prep Students use text evidence to quickly support their choices This is our second post in the test prep series. At CommonLit, we’re all about getting students prepared, while still... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher April 16, 2018 · 4 min read
This Jigsaw Game Will Make Test Prep Fun and Productive Students dive deep and discuss a universal theme It’s finally spring! For most, this means a welcome break from the cold, dark days of winter. But for teachers, spring... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher April 3, 2018 · 3 min read
Use Clever with CommonLit Today Simplify student login and manage class rosters through secure Clever integration CommonLit has partnered with Clever [https://clever.com/] to simplify online learning for students using CommonLit. Through this partnership,... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher March 30, 2018 · 3 min read
CommonLit and Clever Announce Partnership Clever to simplify student logins and provide secure data integration for CommonLit users Washington, DC —CommonLit [https://www.commonlit.org/], a free edtech literacy tool for readers in grades 3–... Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher March 20, 2018 · 2 min read
