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 engage students. Teachers can also boost students’ reading comprehension by challenging them with CommonLit’s assessment and discussion questions. In

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 about the world around them by using CommonLit’s digital literacy program. In this blog post, we'll share 8 nonfiction

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 into your reading curriculum and inspire students’ curiosities about the world. In this blog post, we’ll share 8 informational texts

6 Short Stories about Courage to Embolden Your Middle School Students

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 program. Access dozens of short stories about bravery with

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 reading program, you can enhance your ELA curriculum with 7 magical realism stories for middle and high school students. The

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 comprehension and engagement. With CommonLit’s digital literacy program, you can build a thematic unit about overcoming adversity, and challenge students

Swing Over to The Baseball in April Short Story Collection by Gary Soto

Discover 5 short stories by Gary Soto in CommonLit’s free digital library. Boost students’ reading comprehension and engagement with relatable coming-of-age stories from Baseball in April and Other Stories by Mexican-American author Gary Soto. This book contains 11 short stories in which the author captures significant themes in the

Celebrate 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 your students elevate their reading comprehension and learn more about the Native American community. Many Native American stories revolve around humans,

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 offers dozens of historical fiction texts to supplement your ELA curriculum and elevate students’ reading comprehension. With this genre, you

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 the fable genre feature personified animals to highlight human weaknesses and share meaningful messages about morality. CommonLit’s free online

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 not only elevate students’ reading comprehension, but also immerse them in a rich reading experience. In this blog post, we’ll explore 6

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 Book Pairings, which are complementary resources that encourage students to make connections across specific texts to build their reading comprehension

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 compiled several compelling short stories about growing up that will resonate with your students. You can challenge them to practice their critical thinking skills

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 reading and boost their critical thinking skills. These seven poems on love are perfect for supplementing your upcoming poetry unit.

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 into your reading curriculum this school year. These literary texts will not only boost your students’ reading growth, but they will

6 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 curriculum designers, CommonLit offers hundreds of literary texts and reading assessments for students in grades 3-5.  Each text comes with

Engaging Short Stories about Identity for Middle and High School Students

Boost reading comprehension and engagement with seven relatable short stories for students in grades 6-12. With CommonLit’s digital library, you can introduce your students to hundreds of texts that explore various forms of identity, including but not limited to (dis)ability, ethnicity, and gender. These short stories for middle

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 can find a community, so that they can enrich their lives with friendship and develop a strong sense of self.

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 poems, short stories, and memoirs written by powerful women authors. To support your lesson planning, we’ve highlighted seven literary texts from