Top 5 Reasons Administrators Love CommonLit 360 Teachers have a lot on their plates. They have to balance planning, grading, supporting students, and more. As administrators, we know you want to give them the support they need... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges February 19, 2024 · 7 min read
Top 5 Reasons Administrators Love CommonLit 360 Teachers have a lot on their plates. They have to balance planning, grading, supporting students, and more. As administrators, we know you want to give them the support they need... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges February 19, 2024 · 7 min read
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... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges March 9, 2023 · 4 min read
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... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges January 26, 2023 · 4 min read
Powerful Poems by Black Authors for Secondary Students These engaging and diverse poems on CommonLit’s digital literary platform are all written by Black authors and poets. Each poem will spark reading engagement from secondary students with powerful... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges January 19, 2023 · 3 min read
Standards-Based Data Dashboards Make Analyzing Student Growth Even Easier with CommonLit! At CommonLit, we’re dedicated to helping all students grow as readers while simultaneously making teacher’s lives easier. That’s why we’ve updated our standards-based performance charts to... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges December 21, 2022 · 3 min read
New Library Feature: Teacher Overviews As a teacher, finding the right text is time consuming. Reading text after text in its entirety to figure out if it fits the unit or highlights the right teaching... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges December 21, 2022 · 2 min read
Support Elementary Students with Analyzing Character Change: 5 Skills-Based Comprehension Lessons from CommonLit’s Digital Literacy Program Tracing how characters change over the course of a text is a critical skill of every great reader. As students age, the texts and characters they encounter become increasingly complex,... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges December 20, 2022 · 4 min read
Informational Texts to Help Students Build Background Knowledge Around Current Events (And Support Reading Comprehension Skills!) Student curiosity can lead them to explore all kinds of things - even current events! That’s why we created a round-up of current event articles from our digital literacy... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges December 9, 2022 · 4 min read
Cozy Up to a Good Poem: Winter-Themed Poems for Elementary Students 6 Winter-Themed Poems to Engage Elementary Students Colder weather doesn’t have to mean frozen content! These engaging and diverse poems about winter on CommonLit’s free digital literacy platform... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges December 5, 2022 · 3 min read
Help High School Students Grow as Writers with These Argumentative Articles Sparking student interest is sometimes best done with a bit of controversy. That’s why we’ve collected some of our most engaging argumentative articles for high school students. Each... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges December 2, 2022 · 4 min read
Curated Lesson Plans to Bravely Support Students’ Analysis of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World CommonLit’s digital library has over 3,000 high-quality lessons that engage students and strengthen their reading comprehension. Additionally, we offer over 100 Book Pairings [https://www.commonlit.org/en/... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges November 28, 2022 · 5 min read
Help Student Reading Comprehension Rise with Curated Lesson Plans for a Novel Study of Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan The CommonLit library has over 3,000 high-quality lessons that engage students and strengthen their reading comprehension. Additionally, we offer over 100 Book Pairings [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library?... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges November 28, 2022 · 4 min read
7 Informational Texts About Food That Secondary Students Will Devour! Reading comprehension instruction should leave students wanting more, and this round-up of informational texts about food is sure to leave your secondary students hungry to continue reading. From the history... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges November 14, 2022 · 3 min read
Don’t Get Lost in the Odyssey: Use Reading Lessons from CommonLit to Boost Students’ Reading Comprehension and Engagement These high interest informational texts, poems, and short stories are the perfect complement to a unit of ELA instruction focused on The Odyssey. CommonLit’s digital literacy program features over... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges November 10, 2022 · 4 min read
7 Memorable Memoirs for High School Studies Helping high schoolers look up from their feeds and put themselves in the shoes of someone else can seem impossible! A good memoir or autobiography offers students a window into... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges November 4, 2022 · 5 min read
5 Flavorful Texts for Elementary Students: All About Dessert Food connects us with our families, neighbors, and the community at large. This round up of scrumptious texts includes informational texts about the history and invention of some of our... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges November 4, 2022 · 3 min read
7 Short Stories About Revenge for Secondary Students Insults. Betrayal. Infidelity. What do we do when someone wrongs us? Wait for karma? Seek revenge? Here are seven short stories about revenge from our digital literacy program which engage... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges October 28, 2022 · 4 min read
6 Historical Letters for Secondary Students Creating opportunities for students to meaningfully engage with primary sources can take considerable time to plan and sometimes feel dry for students. That’s why we’ve put together a... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges October 14, 2022 · 3 min read
7 Engaging Myths for Secondary Students Exposing students to classic mythology can be daunting. That’s why we’ve put together a roundup of engaging myths from our digital literacy program that both teachers and students... Dorothy Hodges Dorothy Hodges October 7, 2022 · 4 min read
