NEW: CommonLit 360 Drives Academic Improvement in NYC Schools A new study of CommonLit 360 across 11 middle schools shows strong growth in reading achievement among kids utilizing the curriculum. CommonLit 360 is CommonLit’s new comprehensive, engaging, and easy-to-implement full year curriculum for English Language Arts. So far, four studies have been conducted on its effectiveness. Most recently, Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin January 20, 2023 · 5 min read
15+ Tips to Make CommonLit 360 Units Come Alive for Your Students Engage students with these incredible teaching strategies that will get them moving, talking, and learning! CommonLit 360 is a rigorous and grade-level aligned curriculum that has been shown to help accelerate students’ learning. But, our team didn’t just design the curriculum to be grade-level aligned, we also designed it Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin January 3, 2023 · 9 min read
CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0: Everything You Need to Know Exciting updates to CommonLit’s ELA curriculum for grades 6-8 We are thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated new edition of CommonLit 360 for Middle School (grades 6-8) will be available in early July 2023! In this blog post, we’ll share some great additions to our comprehensive ELA Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 22, 2022 · 4 min read
Secondary CommonLit Originals: Engaging, Diverse Stories only Available on CommonLit! Check out dozens of high-interest and timely short stories, available only on our library. CommonLit’s library is home to over 3,000 digital lessons on a wide range of topics, complete with reading comprehension questions to sharpen standards-based skills and to prepare students for high-stakes tests. Now, teachers will Allie Liotta Allie Liotta January 30, 2023 · 7 min read
Best Practices How CommonLit Español Can Help English Language Learners with Language Acquisition CommonLit Español is our digital library of lessons in Spanish. With over 800 Spanish texts, it is an incredible resource for teachers with Spanish-speaking English Language Learners. Our library features a wide variety of literary and informational texts by influential authors and poets like Alma Flor Ada, Federico García Lorca, Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin January 25, 2023 · 3 min read
Best Practices Elevate Instruction in Spanish Immersion and World Language Classes with CommonLit Español CommonLit Español has over 800 Spanish texts. The library features a variety of literary and informational texts by influential authors and poets like Alma Flor Ada, Federico García Lorca, and Gabriel García Márquez. We also have over 70 Lecciones Guiadas, interactive lessons that ask students to find evidence, write, and Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin January 25, 2023 · 4 min read
Insights NEW: CommonLit 360 Drives Academic Improvement in NYC Schools A new study of CommonLit 360 across 11 middle schools shows strong growth in reading achievement among kids utilizing the curriculum. CommonLit 360 is CommonLit’s new comprehensive, engaging, and easy-to-implement full year curriculum for English Language Arts. So far, four studies have been conducted on its effectiveness. Most recently, Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin January 20, 2023 · 5 min read
Secondary 10 Texts to Celebrate The Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in your classroom with historical biographies, primary source documents, speeches, and more. CommonLit’s online digital literacy program provides teachers with access to thousands of free texts and comprehension questions. In this blog post, we will highlight texts you can use Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin January 6, 2023 · 5 min read
CommonLit 360 How Blount County School District Drastically Improved Outcomes for All Students with CommonLit 360 Explore research that demonstrates how a partnership with CommonLit can positively impact students and teachers CommonLit is dedicated to helping schools and districts use our highly affordable, comprehensive, and easy-to-implement literacy program that drastically accelerates student outcomes. Blount County School District, located in eastern Tennessee, is one example of a Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin January 4, 2023 · 5 min read
CommonLit 360 15+ Tips to Make CommonLit 360 Units Come Alive for Your Students Engage students with these incredible teaching strategies that will get them moving, talking, and learning! CommonLit 360 is a rigorous and grade-level aligned curriculum that has been shown to help accelerate students’ learning. But, our team didn’t just design the curriculum to be grade-level aligned, we also designed it Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin January 3, 2023 · 9 min read
CommonLit 360 How to Teach a CommonLit 360 Research Unit Engage students with interesting research topics, teach them skills to become adept independent researchers, and help them craft their end-of-unit research papers. CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12. Our standards-aligned units are highly engaging and develop core reading and writing skills. Want to engage students in Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 28, 2022 · 7 min read
CommonLit 360 CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0: Everything You Need to Know Exciting updates to CommonLit’s ELA curriculum for grades 6-8 We are thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated new edition of CommonLit 360 for Middle School (grades 6-8) will be available in early July 2023! In this blog post, we’ll share some great additions to our comprehensive ELA Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 22, 2022 · 4 min read
Schools & Districts 2022 Year In Review This year CommonLit published impactful research, added hundreds of new library lessons, introduced Target Lessons, launched new 360 units, and more. 2022 was an exciting year for CommonLit. We introduced lots of new content, published some exciting research, and continued to make teacher’s lives easier and help students excel Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 21, 2022 · 5 min read
CommonLit 360 Supporting Struggling Readers with CommonLit 360 Vocabulary activities, differentiated reading lessons, scaffolded writing, and more to accelerate learning for all students. Teaching ELA units to struggling readers can be daunting. CommonLit 360 is intentionally designed to support all learners. In this blog post, we will share some strategies and recommendations for teachers to best support all Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 21, 2022 · 7 min read
Elementary 9 Elementary Texts to Light Up the Holiday Season Looking to bring the holiday spirit to your elementary classroom? Jump into these festive winter texts about the holidays traditions from around the world. Winter is a season of plenty of holidays around the world, making it a great time to read stories about tradition, family, and celebrations. The CommonLit Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 19, 2022 · 5 min read
Elementary 6 Elementary Texts to Ring In New Years Around The World As the New Year approaches, bring multicultural learning to your classroom with these stories about New Year’s celebrations across different countries, cultures, and faiths. Holiday celebrations are a great way to learn about cultures around the world. The CommonLit library is home to plenty of holiday texts to engage Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 19, 2022 · 4 min read
CommonLit 360 Everything You Need to Know About CommonLit’s Ambassador Program Network with other teachers, learn from our team, receive swag, and spread the word about 360 as a CommonLit Ambassador! We are excited to announce the inaugural CommonLit 360 Ambassador Program! [https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JDN6NRW] This program is designed to foster growth of CommonLit 360, our comprehensive ELA Ellie Viggiani Ellie Viggiani December 15, 2022 · 1 min read
Best Practices All the Ways CommonLit Supports English Language Learners CommonLit’s free digital literacy program helps support English language Learners with digital accessibility tools, scaffolded reading comprehension, explicit vocabulary instruction, and more. CommonLit’s free online digital literacy program makes it easy to support English Language Learners. Through inclusion and differentiation, both CommonLit’s library [https://www.commonlit.org/ Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 12, 2022 · 4 min read
Elementary 7 Reading Comprehension Lessons to Teach Students How to Find The Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text These easy-to-use skills based lessons will engage students with high-interest topics while helping them hone important grade-level reading comprehension skills. Target Lessons are highly engaging lessons that teach students critical reading comprehension skills. Each lesson includes scaffolded assessment questions that build student engagement and knowledge as they complete the lesson. Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 5, 2022 · 5 min read
Elementary 7 Brand-New Elementary Target Lessons To Help Students’ Reading Comprehension Engage students while they learn critical reading comprehension skills, including finding the main idea, analyzing character change, finding the meaning of unknown words and more. Target Lessons are easy-to-use, highly engaging lessons that teach students critical reading comprehension skills for both fiction and nonfiction texts. Each lesson includes scaffolded Pre-Reading, Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 5, 2022 · 4 min read
Target Lessons 8 Fiction Reading Comprehension Lessons for Elementary Students Practice key fiction reading comprehension skills with these 8 Target Lessons that help students analyze character change, find the best evidence, analyze character point of view, and more. Target Lessons are highly engaging lessons that teach students critical reading comprehension skills. Each lesson includes scaffolded Pre-Reading, During Reading, and Post-Reading Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 5, 2022 · 5 min read
CommonLit 360 How to Effectively Teach a CommonLit 360 Novel Unit Build student reading comprehension with highly engaging novel study units, complete with engaging lessons and chapter guides as part of CommonLit’s free 360 curriculum. CommonLit 360 [https://www.commonlit.org/blog/introducing-the-commonlit-360-curriculum-a1c326a54a50/] is a comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12. Our standards-aligned units are highly engaging and develop core Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin December 5, 2022 · 5 min read
CommonLit 360 "Characters Who Change & Grow": A Short Story Unit from CommonLit 360 that will Get Students Excited About ELA in 6th Grade This ELA Unit includes engaging short stories and a nonfiction text that will engage students and help them reflect on their own lives to discuss how people change overtime. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 [https://cdn.commonlit.org/static_assets/assets/000/007/744/original/CommonLit_360_Curriculum_Overview_ Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin September 19, 2022 · 5 min read
Elementary Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with 10 Inspiring Texts Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with texts elementary students will love. To help pay tribute to amazing Hispanic authors, poets, and social activities, we put together a collection of texts to use during Hispanic Heritage Month with your students. These texts will help build students' writing skills and reading comprehension. Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin September 14, 2022 · 4 min read
CommonLit 360 “Following the Crowd:” A Short Story Unit from CommonLit 360’s ELA Curriculum That Will Peak Students’ Interest This ELA Short Story Unit will get students excited about reading and spark incredible classroom discussions. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 [https://cdn.commonlit.org/static_assets/assets/000/007/744/original/CommonLit_360_Curriculum_Overview_-_Edition_1.0_-_v6.pdf?2021] is a free English Language Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin September 9, 2022 · 4 min read
CommonLit 360 “Writing Your Story: Memoir and Application Essays”: CommonLit 360’s 12th Grade Unit Helps Students Craft their College Essays This ELA Unit includes high-interest memoirs by contemporary authors like Trevor Noah and Michelle Zauner to serve as examples for students’ application essays. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 [https://cdn.commonlit.org/static_assets/assets/000/007/744/original/CommonLit_360_Curriculum_Overview_-_Edition_1.0_-_v6. Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin September 2, 2022 · 4 min read
CommonLit 360 The Great Gatsby Novel Study is Ideal for Fostering Reading Comprehension Skills in 11th Grade This unit includes riveting class discussions that will enthrall your students, including conversations about the American Dream as well as a literary analysis on what makes a novel truly “great.” What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 [https://cdn.commonlit.org/static_assets/assets/000/007/744/original/CommonLit_360_Curriculum_ Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin September 2, 2022 · 6 min read
CommonLit 360 “Bad Behavior”: A Short Story Unit from CommonLit 360 that Will Spark Incredible Discussions In the Beginning of 8th Grade This ELA Unit includes high-interest stories about moral dilemmas and distinguishing right from wrong from authors like Roald Dahl and Richard Matheson. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 [https://cdn.commonlit.org/static_assets/assets/000/007/744/original/CommonLit_360_Curriculum_Overview_-_Edition_1.0_-_v6.pdf? Olivia Franklin Olivia Franklin September 2, 2022 · 5 min read
