Check out the novels in CommonLit 360 CommonLit’s ELA curriculum includes full-length texts in each grade and robust independent reading resources to spark a love of books Who is CommonLit? What is CommonLit 360? CommonLit... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown January 7, 2026 · 7 min read
A Letter From Our Founder: Unveiling the CommonLit Rebrand CommonLit has reached an exciting turning point. When you navigate to CommonLit, you’ll notice that things look a lot different – that’s on purpose, and we hope you like it.... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown March 7, 2025 · 2 min read
CommonLit's Impact Over the Last 10 Years This December, CommonLit will celebrate its 10th Anniversary since its founding in 2013 This journey has been so rewarding as teachers around the world have embraced CommonLit and brought it... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown December 11, 2023 · 1 min read
More Than a Platform: How CommonLit 360 Was Built for Real Classrooms Real classrooms need flexible tools. Here’s how CommonLit 360 was built to meet students and teachers exactly where they are. Screen fatigue is a real and growing challenge in... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown May 19, 2026 · 3 min read
CommonLit 360: An ELA Curriculum that Accelerates Learning for All Students CommonLit’s comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12 comes with the professional learning, data tracking tools, and wraparound supports you need for seamless adoption. At CommonLit, we want every... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown May 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Check out the novels in CommonLit 360 CommonLit’s ELA curriculum includes full-length texts in each grade and robust independent reading resources to spark a love of books Who is CommonLit? What is CommonLit 360? CommonLit... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown January 7, 2026 · 7 min read
A Letter From Our Founder: Unveiling the CommonLit Rebrand CommonLit has reached an exciting turning point. When you navigate to CommonLit, you’ll notice that things look a lot different – that’s on purpose, and we hope you like it.... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown March 7, 2025 · 2 min read
CommonLit's Impact Over the Last 10 Years This December, CommonLit will celebrate its 10th Anniversary since its founding in 2013 This journey has been so rewarding as teachers around the world have embraced CommonLit and brought it... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown December 11, 2023 · 1 min read
CommonLit Usage and Reading Growth in NYC Schools Recent data from 26 NYC middle schools demonstrate a significant link between CommonLit 360 usage and students’ reading growth. A new study of CommonLit 360 in 26 middle schools in... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown August 30, 2023 · 4 min read
Student Gains on Statewide English Language Arts Assessments Seen Year After Year for CommonLit 360 TN School District Blount County, TN saw incredible gains in their state English Language Arts Assessment scores. CommonLit is proud to share the English Language Arts Assessment result in a district that began... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown July 24, 2023 · 2 min read
CommonLit 360 Demonstrates Positive Gains on Student Reading Achievement and Teacher Practice A study in collaboration with Mathematica shows impressive student and teacher growth with the use of CommonLit 360 CommonLit 360 is our comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12. Each... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown February 9, 2023 · 5 min read
CommonLit and Quill.org Team Up to Launch AIWritingCheck.org Site to Help Teachers Identify AI-Generated Writing Quill.org and CommonLit.org launched AIWritingCheck.org, a free tool that allows educators to determine whether a text passage was created by humans or AI. Education technology nonprofits Quill.... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown January 25, 2023 · 3 min read
Research Shows Accelerated Reading Comprehension Gains with CommonLit Learn all about the benefits of implementing CommonLit’s evidence-based digital literacy program and benchmark assessments. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that students with higher usage of CommonLit’... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown August 16, 2022 · 3 min read
Announcing CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0 In the middle of 2021, CommonLit published six CommonLit 360 [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library/units?contentTypes=text&grade=6&initiatedFrom=library] (Edition 1.0 COVID-19... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown July 28, 2022 · 2 min read
Lessons about Grief, Trauma, and Loss Use these lessons to facilitate discussion and help students process complex emotions around tragic events. If you’ve dealt with grief in your own life, you know that it never... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown May 31, 2022 · 4 min read
Introducing: The CLEAR Corpus, an open dataset to advance research CommonLit collaborated with Georgia State University to create an dataset of almost 5,000 reading passages to support a wide range of research. About the CLEAR Corpus The CLEAR (CommonLit... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown December 6, 2021 · 3 min read
CommonLit 360: A Free Curriculum with Affordable Wraparound Services Wraparound services include professional development, school and districtwide data reports, and benchmark assessments I am so excited to share that after three years of work, CommonLit has published its brand... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown September 21, 2021 · 3 min read
CommonLit 360 is a Knowledge-Building Curriculum. Kids will Love these Unit Topics. A run-down of the knowledge forward approach within the CommonLit 360 Curriculum for grades 6–10 I’ll never forget the moment in my teaching career when the lightbulb... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown September 8, 2021 · 5 min read
Introducing the CommonLit 360 Curriculum It’s free. It’s easy to use. It’s fully digital. CommonLit 360 (Edition 1.0 COVID-19 Emergency Release Version) is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive curriculum... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown May 20, 2021 · 5 min read
How CommonLit 360 Can Help Address "Learning Loss" CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12 that accelerates reading comprehension for struggling readers. Educators everywhere are thinking about how to maximize instructional time now that... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown May 11, 2021 · 7 min read
The CommonLit and Georgia State University Readability Prize Project Our Commitment to Research At CommonLit, we believe that it is our responsibility to add to the learning and education research fields, and involve stakeholders like teachers and students directly... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown April 14, 2021 · 3 min read
Putting Cognitive Science Research to Practice Earlier this year, we were discussing ways that we might incorporate machine learning and AI into CommonLit’s digital features. During the discussion, one of our engineers said something that... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown October 28, 2020 · 6 min read
Teachers: We Hope These Distance Learning Units Can Help We are here for you — our team developed units with high-interest texts, vocabulary activities, and writing lessons for any virtual learning model CommonLit’s Distance Learning Units were specifically... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown September 16, 2020 · 6 min read
Resources to Support Teleschool Plans: COVID-19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CommonLit team is here to help schools that are coping with closures related to COVID-19. In this blog post, we highlight strategies for using CommonLit digitally with students.... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown March 9, 2020 · 3 min read
CommonLit's 360 Curriculum: Culturally-Responsive Materials Our framework for creating culturally-responsive materials I. Our Mission CommonLit is a nonprofit organization. Our mission is to ensure that all students graduate high school with the reading, writing,... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown March 3, 2020 · 4 min read
A Big Announcement: CommonLit is building a full-course curriculum. Here's why. CommonLit is excited to announce that it is developing a full-year OER curriculum for ELA. In this blog post, CommonLit’s Founder & CEO explains why CommonLit has made... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown March 3, 2020 · 4 min read
Usage of CommonLit Linked to Greater Student Gains We hired an external research team to measure CommonLit’s effectiveness. We are thrilled to share the story of our impact. CommonLit’s nonprofit mission is to build the best... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown October 9, 2019 · 4 min read
Opportunity to Pilot CommonLit's New Intervention for Struggling Readers CommonLit is a nonprofit that operates a high-quality free online library of over 1,500 CCSS-aligned English Language Arts texts and lessons. Currently, over 9 million teachers and... Michelle Brown Michelle Brown March 6, 2019 · 3 min read
