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Honor Native American Heritage Month with 7 Native American folktales for Elementary Students!

Access 7 thought-provoking Native American stories through CommonLit’s free online reading program! This Native American Heritage Month, build your ELA curriculum with Native American folktales that will help...

Discover 9 Heartwarming Stories about Winter in CommonLit’s Digital Library

Celebrate the season with 9 poems and stories about winter for elementary students! Through CommonLit’s digital literacy program, teachers can access dozens of fun, seasonal texts about winter to...

Astound Your Students with 8 Intriguing Weather Stories

Design a weather unit with 8 informational texts about weather for elementary students. Teachers can access hundreds of informational texts to incorporate into their reading curriculum and broaden students’ knowledge...

8 Informational Texts about Unique Animals

Strengthen students’ reading comprehension with 8 informational texts about animals! Through CommonLit’s digital literacy program, you can find more than one hundred non-fiction texts about animals to incorporate...

6 Short Stories about Courage to Embolden Your Middle School Students

Check out 6 relatable short stories about courage for middle school students in CommonLit’s free digital library! Build a thematic unit on courage with CommonLit’s free digital literacy...

Widen Students' Scope of Reality with 7 Magical Realism Stories

Build a thematic unit on magical realism with 7 fantastical short stories from CommonLit’s digital library! Interested in diving deeper into the fantasy genre? With CommonLit’s free online...

Empower Students with 7 Short Stories about Perseverance

Enhance your ELA curriculum with short stories about overcoming adversity from CommonLit’s digital library! Lead inspiring classroom discussions with high-quality stories about resilience that will boost students’ reading...

5 Gary Soto Short Stories for Middle School (and What to Teach With Each)

Five free CommonLit short stories from Baseball in April and Other Stories, plus a way to teach each one. Victor raises his hand to impress a girl and claims he...

Travel through Time with 7 Historical Fiction Stories from CommonLit’s Digital Library

Discover engaging historical texts, and inspire students’ curiosity in history through CommonLit’s free online reading program. Looking for historical fiction texts for kids? CommonLit’s free digital literacy program...

Teach Important Life Lessons to Elementary Readers with 7 Fables

Supplement your ELA curriculum and strengthen student reading comprehension with fables from CommonLit’s free digital library. Fables are a great way to teach students important life lessons. Stories in...

Engage Young Readers with Relatable Short Stories about Coming-of-Age

Check out CommonLit’s selection of high-quality short stories with coming-of-age themes for your elementary students. At CommonLit, you’ll find hundreds of short stories that will...

7 Lesson Planning Resources to Bolster Your Novel Study on 1984

Elevate your book unit on George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 with informative and engaging texts for high school students. CommonLit’s free online reading program offers more than 100...

7 Short Coming-of-Age Stories to Stir Thought-Provoking Classroom Discussions

Boost Your ELA curriculum with relatable coming-of-age short stories for middle school and high school students. Looking for short stories with a coming-of-age theme? We’ve...

7 Genuine Poems on Love and Relationships

Strengthen your ELA instruction and student reading comprehension with these poems on love for middle and high school students. CommonLit offers hundreds of engaging poems for students to practice close...

Strengthen Student Reading Curriculum with New Short Stories from the CommonLit Library

Lead engaging classroom discussions and support student reading comprehension with these new short stories for grades 4-8! We are excited to share new short stories that you can incorporate...

6 Short Poems about Happiness for Elementary Students

Enrich your classroom discussions with poems about happiness from CommonLit’s digital library to help your elementary students build both their reading comprehension and personal development. Designed by expert ELA...

6 Poems about Community to Supplement Your Reading Curriculum

Planning a poetry unit for your English Language Arts class this semester? Inspire engaging classroom discussions with poems about community. For youth, it’s important that they know where they...

7 Literary Texts by Powerful Women Authors

Check out these amazing short stories and poems on CommonLit from authors like Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros. CommonLit’s award-winning, research-based digital literacy program has hundreds of...