Elementary Classrooms

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...

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...

7 Famous Poems by Shel Silverstein

CommonLit’s digital library includes texts by hundreds of well-known and award-winning authors and poets. Shel Silverstein is one of the most commonly-read children’s poets, known...

7 Reading Comprehension Lessons to Teach Students How to Find The Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text

These easy-to-use main idea lessons will engage students with high-interest topics while helping them hone important grade-level reading comprehension skills. Target Lessons are highly engaging lessons...

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-...

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...

Discover 9 Heartwarming Stories about Winter in CommonLit’s Digital Library

Celebrate the season with 9 poems and stories about winter for elementary students! Through CommonLit’s digital literacy program, teachers can access dozens of fun, seasonal texts about winter to...

Astound Your Students with 8 Intriguing Weather Stories

Design a weather unit with 8 informational texts about weather for elementary students. Teachers can access hundreds of informational texts to incorporate into their reading curriculum and broaden students’ knowledge...

8 Informational Texts about Unique Animals

Strengthen students’ reading comprehension with 8 informational texts about animals! Through CommonLit’s digital literacy program, you can find more than one hundred non-fiction texts about animals to incorporate...

Bridge the Gap in Reading Comprehension with Lesson Plans for Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia

CommonLit’s digital library offers over 3,000 lessons to support your reading curriculum. Our online reading program also offers over 100 Book Pairings, which are sets of texts that...

8 Captivating Stories About World Holidays and Traditions for Elementary School

Through this selection of short stories for grades 3-5, students will learn about holidays around the world. Students come from a variety of backgrounds that have different holiday traditions....

Explore the Magic of Peter Pan with CommonLit Book Pairings

CommonLit’s digital library offers over 3,000 lessons to support your ELA curriculum. Our free reading program also offers over 100 “Book Pairings,” or sets of texts that support...

7 Mystery Stories that Keep Kids Guessing

Your elementary students will strengthen their reading comprehension and inference skills with a gripping, mystery short story from CommonLit’s free online reading program. Mystery stories are often whodunits, but...

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...

6 CommonLit Original Stories for Elementary Students

These 6 original stories, found exclusively on CommonLit, will be great additions to your ELA curriculum to help build reading comprehension for your students! These short stories will teach elementary...

7 Short Texts to Celebrate National Native American Heritage Month

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we have compiled 7 short texts featuring Indigenous authors, characters, and cultures to supplement your ELA curriculum! These Native American poems and short...

Travel through Time with 7 Historical Fiction Stories from CommonLit’s Digital Library

Discover engaging historical texts, and inspire students’ curiosity in history through CommonLit’s free online reading program. Looking for historical fiction texts for kids? CommonLit’s free digital literacy program...

Teach Important Life Lessons to Elementary Readers with 7 Fables

Supplement your ELA curriculum and strengthen student reading comprehension with fables from CommonLit’s free digital library. Fables are a great way to teach students important life lessons. Stories in...

Fun and Inspiring Poems with Figurative Language for Elementary Students

Introduce your students to figurative language with these 6 poems from CommonLit’s digital library. CommonLit’s free online reading program offers a wide selection of poems to help students...

Help Students Discover the Magical Power of Reading with Book Pairings for Matilda

Matilda knows there’s magic in reading – help your class discover that magic by teaching the novel alongside these supplemental materials. Strengthen your student's reading comprehension through CommonLit....

Engage Young Readers with Relatable Short Stories about Coming-of-Age

Check out CommonLit’s selection of high-quality short stories with coming-of-age themes for your elementary students. At CommonLit, you’ll find hundreds of short stories that will...

6 Fantasy Short Stories Elementary Students Will Love!

Here are six engaging fantasy short stories to get your students excited about reading and making connections to their own life experiences! In these alternate realities and magical lands, students...

9 Stellar Science Fiction Short Stories to Bring Imagination to Elementary Classrooms

These creative short science fiction texts will bring imagination, investigation, and excitement to your classroom! Sharing science fiction short stories online is a great way to incorporate imaginative themes and...

7 Stories Filled with Halloween Spirit

Here are some festive and spooky reading lessons perfect for October! Trick treating, dressing up, and jack-o'-lanterns are on every student’s mind this time of year....

Have A Ball This Fall with 7 Fall-Themed Lessons

Pique students’ interest with these seasonal interviews, poems, and short stories. The leaves are changing and pumpkin patches are popping up everywhere you look; with the help of CommonLit your...