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Informing Instruction with Formative Data & Assessments

It’s the day of a huge unit test or summative exam, and students have been preparing for weeks. They submit their answers and breathe a sigh of relief that...

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July 13, 2026 4 min read

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...

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March 23, 2026 4 min read

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Pender County’s Success with CommonLit’s Professional Development

In-person professional development sets the stage for success. When Pender County Schools in North Carolina was searching for a new English Language Arts curriculum for their middle schools, they...

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March 16, 2026 4 min read

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CommonLit Provides Cross-Curricular Support

Selections that can be used across content areas When a student struggles to read grade-level texts, this challenge impacts performance in all academic classes, not just in English Language...

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October 6, 2025 2 min read

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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...

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October 1, 2025 2 min read

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CommonLit 360 Supports Multilingual Learners and Boosts Proficiency Rates

Embedded supports and lesson scaffolding help students find literacy success The National Education Association predicts that by 2025, one in four U.S. students will be English Language Learners (ELL)...

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September 19, 2025 7 min read

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...

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January 15, 2025 3 min read

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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...

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December 30, 2024 3 min read

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CommonLit 360 Makes Accelerated Learning Achievable

Close the performance gap with grade-level content along with strong instruction and support Reading Scores Drop. Students Performing at Lowest Levels in 50 years. Scores are Sinking! Since the...

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July 1, 2024 4 min read

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-...

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May 14, 2024 5 min read

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,...

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April 24, 2024 4 min read

How the CommonLit 360 Curriculum Helps Support Students with Disabilities

Explore the curricular features that provide additional tools to bolster learning While CommonLit 360 was created to support all students and their learning needs, the full-year digital ELA curriculum...

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March 21, 2024 6 min read

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Five Ways to Help (older) Students Build Reading Skills

Simple strategies to improve students’ reading comprehension abilities and build their reading engagement According to the 2022 NAEP Reading Assessment, only 32% of 4th grade students are proficient in reading,...

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March 20, 2024 5 min read

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How to Leverage Your Professional Learning Community

Easy-to-use tools to help your team answer the 4 PLC questions As the focus in education switches to spotlighting what students have learned vs what teachers have taught,...

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March 1, 2024 5 min read

How to Teach Writing Across All Grade Levels

Learn best practices on improving writing instruction and building students’ writing confidence In a survey of 3rd to 8th grade teachers, nearly half of the respondents indicated that they don’...

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February 12, 2024 3 min read

From Teaching Seventh Grade to a Successful Sales Career

One Educator's CommonLit Journey When former seventh grade teacher Eryn Reighard decided to leave the classroom, a position in sales was not her first inclination. During her job...

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January 24, 2024 4 min read

What Does It Mean to Work at CommonLit?

As a rapidly growing literacy curriculum provider, CommonLit seeks to hire the best and the brightest to help foster this growth. Here are some great examples of what it means...

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December 12, 2023 3 min read

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5 Ways CommonLit 360’s Writing Instruction Helps Students' Confidence

Study Shows Students' Writing Self-Efficacy Increases with CommonLit Teaching students how to write effectively is one of an English teacher’s most important and challenging tasks. Along with...

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November 30, 2023 2 min read

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CommonLit’s Library Supports Elementary Teachers as they Implement Science of Reading Aligned Instruction

The Science of Reading The Science of Reading is a body of research incorporating psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to explain how students learn to read. The Simple View of...

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November 8, 2023 5 min read

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How a CommonLit Teacher Ambassador Empowers all Students

Leigh Pafford teaches special education as well as English as a Second Language (ESL) in New York City, and she was also one of CommonLit’s founding Teacher Ambassadors for...

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October 5, 2023 3 min read

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Increased CommonLit 360 Usage Highly Correlated to NY State Assessment Success

A study in collaboration with LearnPlatform by Instructure shows impressive growth with the use of CommonLit 360 Researchers found that students using CommonLit’s lesson library and the CommonLit 360...

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October 4, 2023 3 min read

CommonLit Can Assist With ACT/SAT Test Prep

The testing season is here! No, not the end-of-year testing that schools across the country gear up for each spring. Instead, this is the annual “rite of fall”...

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September 21, 2023 2 min read

Get Valuable Teacher Training from CommonLit

For many school administrators, two of the most dreaded words during the “Back to School” season are Teacher Training. In fact, just the term Professional Development alone can elicit groans...

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July 28, 2023 2 min read

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