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CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0: Everything You Need to Know

Exciting updates to CommonLit’s ELA curriculum for grades 6-8 The CommonLit 360 Curriculum Edition 2.0 for Middle School (grades 6-8) will be fully published by mid-...

Exclusive Opportunity: Join our CommonLit 360 Research Partnership

Unlock CommonLit's full instructional program for free through an exclusive research partnership with CommonLit About CommonLit CommonLit is a non-profit education technology organization offering a comprehensive literacy...

CommonLit Makes Sharing Data with Families a Breeze!

CommonLit makes it easy for teachers to share all progress with families. Parents can easily see their child’s incomplete assignments, assignments that haven’t been graded yet, assignments with...

CommonLit’s Professional Development Saves Teachers’ Time and Helps Them Effectively Implement 360

Looking to effectively implement CommonLit 360? CommonLit’s Professional Development modules set both teachers and students up for success. Get a quote CommonLit 360 is our research-backed ELA curriculum...

8 Poetry Lessons to Help Your Students Become Well Versed in Verse

This April, celebrate all forms of poetry in your classroom with curated lessons for grades 3-12. Poetry comes in many shapes and sizes. From Shakespearean sonnets to free verse...

7 Texts to Celebrate Ramadan in Your Classroom

CommonLit is committed to providing students with a wide range of texts that showcase cultures from all over the world. In these seven texts, students will learn about the traditions...

12 Reasons Administrators Love CommonLit

Everything you need to know to bring CommonLit to your district. With so many literacy programs on the market, it can be hard to find the right one. To make...

CommonLit’s Free Resources and Affordable Support Packages are Designed to Help Student Reading Growth Skyrocket

CommonLit is committed to providing schools access to an ever-expanding library of texts to ensure students engage in high-quality, rigorous, and research-based reading lessons. Our affordable support...

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...

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...

The Comprehensive Guide to CommonLit's Professional Development Portal

Ensure Success with CommonLit by Unlocking Over 60 Trainings for your Team. Is your team planning to roll-out CommonLit' full digital library, benchmark assessments, or full ELA curriculum,...

CommonLit 360 Utilizes Best Practices to Develop Students' Vocabulary Skills

Learn about the vocabulary assignments and quizzes that come with each CommonLit 360 unit. The link between literacy and vocabulary development is well-documented. Research shows that explicit instruction of...

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...

Teach Your Elementary Class about Black Women who Shattered Glass Ceilings

Dive into 8 informational texts about powerful women who made history. Explore our digital literacy platform and find amazing informational texts about inspiring Black women. Learning about these empowering leaders...

Updates 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...

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...

This Valentine’s Day, Teach Reading Lessons Your Whole Class Will Love Most Ardently

As they say in Romeo and Juliet, “My bounty is as boundless as the sea.” Check out our bounty of love stories on CommonLit. With Valentine’s Day fast approaching,...

CommonLit 360 Demonstrates Positive Gains on Student Reading Achievement and Teacher Practice

A study in collaboration with Mathematica shows impressive student and teacher growth with the use of CommonLit 360 CommonLit 360 is our comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12. Each...

6 Ways to Use Target Lessons in Your Classroom

Use data-driven instruction to remediate skills gaps, teach new strategies in whole or small groups, and engage students with riveting texts. Target Lessons are easy-to-use, highly engaging...

3 Ways to Use CommonLit in Social Studies Classrooms

Check out these strategies for effectively using CommonLit in social studies classrooms! Literacy is an essential component of social studies classes, but it can be really hard to find relevant,...

7 Texts to Celebrate the Harlem Renaissance

These engaging and diverse works help teachers showcase and explore the Harlem Renaissance with their students. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement in the 1920s and 1930s....

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...

CommonLit Originals: Engaging, Diverse Stories only Available on CommonLit!

Check out dozens of high-interest and timely short stories, available only on our library. CommonLit’s library is home to over 3,000 digital lessons on a wide range...

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....

Celebrating Black Excellence: Famous Biographies for Elementary Students

These engaging and diverse biographies for elementary students, all featured on CommonLit’s digital literary platform, share the inspiring stories of Black Americans across history, sports, and more. Reading about...