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Improve Reading Comprehension and Track Formative Data with Target Lessons

With CommonLit’s Target Lessons, students develop critical and transferable reading skills while educators seamlessly track formative skill-based data. When students master high-leverage and transferable reading skills, it makes it possible for them to make dramatic reading growth (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000). This is why

Schools & Districts

Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials PRO

Get school and district-wide access to professional development, benchmark assessments, data tracking tools, and onboarding support to ensure success with CommonLit’s digital program!If you are ready to request a quote, please fill out this quick form or email partnerships@commonlit.org. You might already be familiar with CommonLit.

Schools & Districts

CommonLit's Assessment Series Empowers Schools with Actionable Data

Schools can unlock 3 benchmark assessments for grades 3–12 to track student growth with the purchase of School Essentials PRO. CommonLit’s Assessment Series is easy-to-use, high quality, and affordable. Teachers can administer up to three specialized benchmark assessments throughout the school year that each include three grade-level reading

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NEW: CommonLit Now Integrates with Canvas

Learn about the benefits of this powerful LMS integration and how you can unlock it for your team.At CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that our award-winning digital literacy program is as accessible and easy to use as possible. That is why we’re proud to announce that we

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CommonLit 360

Unlock High Quality Professional Development for CommonLit 360

CommonLit’s on-demand professional development gets teachers ready to teach every 360 Unit. CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive and effective ELA curriculum for grades 6–12. The curriculum includes 6 engaging units per grade. Each unit comes complete with rigorous reading, writing, vocabulary, and discussion lessons. For schools and districts

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Best Practices

CommonLit for Co-Teachers

Tips for adding a co-teacher to your classes on CommonLitAt CommonLit, we believe that with the right support, all students can access high-quality, rigorous texts. Students are more successful when co-teachers work collaboratively to plan and modify lessons as needed. We’ve gathered tips from expert teachers to show you

CommonLit 360

Unlock the Full Benefits of CommonLit 360 with CommonLit School Essentials PRO

The professional development, data tracking tools, and wrap-around supports needed to roll out CommonLit’s comprehensive curriculum for grades 6–12CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive digital curriculum for English Language Arts grades 6–12. Each unit in the curriculum comes complete with rigorous and engaging reading, writing, vocabulary, and discussion

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Schools & Districts

CommonLit’s School-Wide Data Reports Make Progress Monitoring Easy

CommonLit School Essentials PRO gives teachers and administrators performance, usage, and growth data access for all students At CommonLit, we’ve created a comprehensive and engaging literacy program with over 2,500 high-quality lessons that has been proven to help students make significant gains in reading. For SY 22–23,

Schools & Districts

Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials

CommonLit School Essentials gives schools and districts access to onboarding and Professional Development supports needed to take full advantage of CommonLit’s digital program.If you are ready to request a quote, please fill out this quick form or email partnerships@commonlit.org. You might already be familiar with CommonLit.

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5 Ways to Observe Veterans Day

Commemorate Veterans Day with CommonLitVeterans Day, a public American holiday, occurs annually on November 11th, celebrating the contributions of the U.S. Armed Forces. Originally called Armistice Day to mark the end of World War I, Veterans Day has existed in its current form since 1954. In order to give

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CommonLit School Essentials PRO Unlocks Best Use of the CommonLit 360 Curriculum

Access school-wide data tracking, professional development, and CommonLit’s Assessment Series to make your rollout of the CommonLit 360 Curriculum a successThe 360 Curriculum is a game-changer for teachers of students in grades 6–10. Each 360 unit is tied together with an essential question that is designed to engage

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Best Practices

Strategically Utilizing CommonLit Lessons to Track Meaningful Data as a Team

Embed CommonLit’s lessons into your district’s curriculum to facilitate data driven instruction & progress monitoringSchools and district administrators are constantly bombarded with data. With many teachers assigning different types of reading lessons from many different digital literacy programs, it can be a real challenge for administrators to break

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What’s New on CommonLit in 2021?

Brand new content, improved accessibility tools, new features and more!It’s that time of year again — back to school! After a year of navigating the pandemic, altered school schedules, and adjusting to remote learning, we hope that you have had some much-deserved time to reset and recharge. The team

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Training and Professional Development Opportunities with CommonLit

Learn all about CommonLit’s free training opportunities and Professional Development packages for schools.Here at CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that teachers and administrators have the training and Professional Development they need to seamlessly and effectively utilize CommonLit with their students. Throughout the school year, CommonLit will be

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Everything You Need to Know about CommonLit's Free Diagnostic Assessment and Premium Assessment Series

We know that it is critically important for teachers to collect accurate data on student reading performance. At CommonLit, we’re excited to offer two options to teachers and schools: the CommonLit Free Diagnostic Assessment and the CommonLit Assessment Series. In this blog post, we’ll tell you everything you

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CommonLit's Commitment to Being "Free and Open"

How CommonLit uses Creative Commons licenses to open up their educational resourcesCommonLit provides teachers and students with educational materials that are free and open, forever. Why? Because we believe every child deserves access to high quality learning resources and cost should not be a reason that they are denied that

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CommonLit 360

5 Ways that CommonLit 360 Supports English Language Learners

CommonLit’s free curriculum for grades 6–12 supports English Language Learners with explicit vocabulary instruction, scaffolded comprehension and accessibility tools, and differentiated lesson options — all with an inclusion lens.CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive curriculum for English Language Arts for grades 6–12, freely available to teachers and students

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CommonLit 360

Everything you need to know about the Interactive Digital Writing Lessons in CommonLit 360

CommonLit’s writing lessons are complete with instructional resources, accessibility tools for students, and easy-to-use data reports.CommonLit 360 is free and available for teachers on CommonLit.org. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I highly recommend that you do. It’s a comprehensive digital curriculum for English

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Middle & High Schools: Join a CommonLit 360 Curriculum Pilot

Learn about an opportunity to pilot the new CommonLit 360 units for grades 6–10 and get exclusive access to coaching, resources, assessments, and support for SY 2021–22 and beyond.CommonLit is a nonprofit with a mission to close persistent opportunity gaps in literacy education. We are best known

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CommonLit’s 2021 Summer Reading Challenge

CommonLit’s Summer Reading Challenge is back for Summer 2021! Families can choose from brand new reading lists full of engaging stories.CommonLit’s Summer Reading Challenge is back for Summer 2021 with new reading lists full of engaging stories for children to read on their own or with family

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Affordable Professional Development to Support an Effective Rollout of CommonLit 360

Learn about the on-demand Professional Development that CommonLit has designed to support your team’s use of our new comprehensive curriculum, CommonLit 360CommonLit is thrilled to announce the release of the CommonLit 360 Curriculum! This free curriculum for grades 6–12 is comprehensive. Each unit includes high-quality texts, full lesson

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Tips for Test Prep with CommonLit in 2021

Practical tips for leveraging CommonLit’s library and flexible assignments to give your students additional practiceWeeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education made an important announcement regarding state testing for SY 20–21; states will be given increased flexibility in how they administer standardized assessments and schools won’t

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Introducing the CommonLit Assessment Series

CommonLit's Assessment Series was introduced during the '21-'22 school year. For updated information about CommonLit's Assessment Series for the '22-'23 school year, please click here. This spring, our team is proud to announce the release of our Post-Assessment — an assessment that has been carefully designed to complement CommonLit’s popular

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Schools & Districts

CommonLit’s Digital Library Flexibly Supports Any Curriculum

2,500+ literary and informational reading passages, lesson planning resources, comprehension quizzes, and more to support teachersCommonLit has carefully curated a digital library that offers over 2,500 high-quality reading passages and digital lessons for students in grades 3–12. We offer seminal works from many of the best contemporary

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Wrapping Up 2020 at CommonLit

Reflecting on new features, exciting new content in our library, and our commitment to giving students and teachers high-quality resources.Simply put, it’s been a year. Between a global pandemic, nationwide protests for racial justice, and remote working and learning, 2020 is a year that teachers and students worldwide