Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials PRO Unlock school and district-wide access to professional development, benchmark assessments, data tracking tools, and onboarding support to ensure success with CommonLit’s digital literacy program! CommonLit is an online digital literacy program that provides schools with a free ELA curriculum and over 3,000 supplemental lessons. For schools and districts Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 29, 2022 · 4 min read
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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 27, 2022 · 4 min read
CommonLit 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 offer a Canvas Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 24, 2022 · 2 min read
5 Ways to Observe Veterans Day Commemorate Veterans Day with CommonLit Veterans 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher November 1, 2022 · 8 min read
CommonLit 360 CommonLit 360 Units Are Now Available for Grades 11 & 12 CommonLit’s comprehensive instructional units for 11th and 12th grade come complete with high quality reading, writing, discussion lessons and much more! CommonLit is so excited to announce the release of 360 Units for Grades 11 and 12. CommonLit 360 was first released for grades 6-10 in June 2021. The Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher October 24, 2022 · 3 min read
Schools & Districts Everything You Need to Know about CommonLit’s Free Reading 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 Reading Assessment and the CommonLit Assessment Series. In this blog post, we’ll tell you everything you Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher October 14, 2022 · 2 min read
Schools & Districts Use CommonLit's Target Lessons To Remediate Skill Gaps After Benchmark Assessments Target Lessons are short, skill-based lessons that will engage your students and build critical reading skills. Our team at CommonLit is always developing exciting digital tools and resources that teachers can use to boost their students’ reading comprehension. We’re excited to highlight Target Lessons, the newest addition to our Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher August 26, 2022 · 4 min read
Unlist Usage of CommonLit's Digital Library is Correlated with Student Growth Learn all about the benefits of implementing CommonLit’s evidence-based program CommonLit is on a mission to ensure that all students can graduate with the reading and writing skills they need to succeed in college and/or the career of their choice. Since the launch of CommonLit’s digital program Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher August 15, 2022 · 3 min read
Target Lessons 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher August 10, 2022 · 4 min read
Schools & Districts Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials PRO Unlock school and district-wide access to professional development, benchmark assessments, data tracking tools, and onboarding support to ensure success with CommonLit’s digital literacy program! CommonLit is an online digital literacy program that provides schools with a free ELA curriculum and over 3,000 supplemental lessons. For schools and districts Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 29, 2022 · 4 min read
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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 27, 2022 · 4 min read
Schools & Districts CommonLit 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 offer a Canvas Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 24, 2022 · 2 min read
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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 16, 2022 · 4 min read
Best Practices CommonLit for Co-Teachers Tips for adding a co-teacher to your classes on CommonLit At 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 14, 2022 · 6 min read
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 English Language Arts curriculum for grades 6–12 CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive digital reading curriculum for grades 6–12. Each unit in the ELA curriculum comes complete with rigorous and engaging reading, writing, Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher January 5, 2022 · 5 min read
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 3,000 high-quality lessons that has been proven to help students make significant gains in reading. For SY 23–24, Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher December 21, 2021 · 4 min read
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 - for just $2,000 per school per year! You might already be familiar with CommonLit.org, a digital literacy program that has been proven to Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher November 25, 2021 · 3 min read
Archive 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 success. The 360 ELA curriculum is a game-changer for teachers of students in grades 6–12. Each 360 unit is tied together with an essential question that is designed Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher October 8, 2021 · 3 min read
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 monitoring. Schools 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher September 1, 2021 · 4 min read
Archive 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher August 19, 2021 · 6 min read
Archive 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 30, 2021 · 2 min read
Archive 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher July 12, 2021 · 3 min read
Insights CommonLit's Commitment to Being "Free and Open" How CommonLit uses Creative Commons licenses to open up their educational resources CommonLit 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher June 28, 2021 · 4 min read
Archive 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 [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library/units] is a comprehensive curriculum for grades 6–12, freely available to Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher June 11, 2021 · 4 min read
CommonLit 360 Everything you need to know about the Interactive Digital Writing Lessons in CommonLit 360’s ELA Curriculum 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher June 7, 2021 · 5 min read
CommonLit 360 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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher May 21, 2021 · 4 min read
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 Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher May 18, 2021 · 4 min read
Archive 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 ELA curriculum, CommonLit 360 CommonLit is thrilled to announce the release of the CommonLit 360 Curriculum [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library/units]! This is a free, comprehensive ELA curriculum Rob Fleisher Rob Fleisher April 10, 2021 · 4 min read
