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, study guides,... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo April 24, 2024 · 4 min read
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 knew... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo April 23, 2024 · 4 min read
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,... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo March 20, 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, study guides,... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo April 24, 2024 · 4 min read
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 knew... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo April 23, 2024 · 4 min read
CommonLit 360 Supports English Language Learners and Boosts Proficiency Rates Easy-to-access tools 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)... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo March 28, 2024 · 6 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 from... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo March 21, 2024 · 6 min read
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,... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo March 20, 2024 · 5 min read
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, more educators... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo 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’... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo February 12, 2024 · 3 min read
Exciting Opportunity: Join CommonLit’s New Research Study Get access to CommonLit PRO Plus free for your district We’re launching an exciting research study of CommonLit’s 360 Curriculum in SY24-25, and we want your district to... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo January 24, 2024 · 2 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... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo January 24, 2024 · 4 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... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo December 14, 2023 · 3 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... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo December 14, 2023 · 4 min read
Get Hand-Picked Lessons Directly Aligned to Your Curriculum Support instruction with CommonLit Crosswalks Have you ever had a traditional textbook adoption that was expensive and quickly became outdated? As a result, these under-utilized resources can create misalignment and... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo December 12, 2023 · 2 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... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo December 12, 2023 · 3 min read
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 reading,... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo November 30, 2023 · 2 min read
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... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo November 8, 2023 · 5 min read
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 Series benchmark... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo October 31, 2023 · 2 min read
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 to perform... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo October 20, 2023 · 3 min read
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... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo October 5, 2023 · 3 min read
Study Results: Increased CommonLit 360 Usage Highly Correlated to NY State Assessment Success In an exciting new study from LearnPlatform by Instructure, an independent evaluation group for edtech products, researchers found that students using CommonLit’s lesson library and the CommonLit 360 curriculum... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo 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” where thousands... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo September 21, 2023 · 2 min read
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... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo August 23, 2023 · 3 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... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo July 28, 2023 · 2 min read
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 National... Re Marzullo Re Marzullo July 11, 2023 · 4 min read
