Schools & Districts

Everything You Need to Know about CommonLit's All-Green EdReports Rating for Grades 6-8

EdReports is a nonprofit organization that independently reviews instructional materials for K-12 education. With the mission of supporting educators in identifying high quality instructional materials, the EdReports content review team...

Announcing: CommonLit 360 for Middle School Earns All-Green EdReports Rating

We’re proud to announce that CommonLit 360 for grades 6-8 has received a top rating from EdReports, with all-green scores in every gateway. A green score represents the highest...

Bring CommonLit 360 to Your Schools with School Essentials PRO Plus

Get the professional learning, unit assessments and data tracking your team needs to successfully implement CommonLit’s comprehensive ELA curriculum! At CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that all students...

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...

Pender County’s Success with CommonLit’s Professional Development

In-person professional development sets the stage for success. When Pender County Schools in North Carolina was searching for a new English Language Arts curriculum for their middle schools, they knew...

ESSA Tier II Study: CommonLit Use by 7th Grade Students in a Florida District

Seventh grade students who used CommonLit scored higher on the Florida FAST than students who did not use CommonLit Recent findings from a 2022–23 study of CommonLit meet ESSA...

Five Ways to Help (older) Students Build Reading Skills

Simple strategies to improve students’ reading comprehension abilities and build their reading engagement According to the 2022 NAEP Reading Assessment, only 32% of 4th grade students are proficient in reading,...

Case Study: Lakewood Middle School’s Success with CommonLit 360

After a year of implementing CommonLit 360, Lakewood Middle School saw increases in NJSLA performance, student engagement, and teacher satisfaction Lakewood Middle School, located in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, began...

How to Leverage Your Professional Learning Community

Easy-to-use tools to help your team answer the 4 PLC questions  As the focus in education switches to spotlighting what students have learned vs what teachers have taught, more educators...

Top 5 Reasons Administrators Love CommonLit 360

Teachers have a lot on their plates. They have to balance planning, grading, supporting students, and more. As administrators, we know you want to give them the support they need...

Get Hand-Picked Lessons Directly Aligned to Your Curriculum

Support instruction with CommonLit Crosswalks Have you ever had a traditional textbook adoption that was expensive and quickly became outdated? As a result, these under-utilized resources can create misalignment and...

CommonLit’s Assessment Series Can Provide a Preview for High Stakes End-of-Year Exams

Imagine this…it’s springtime, and your school is in full-on test prep mode. Teachers have spent massive amounts of time and energy making sure students are well-equipped to perform...

Informing Instruction with Formative Data & Assessments

It’s the day of a huge unit test or summative exam, and students have been preparing for weeks. They submit their answers and breathe a sigh of relief that...

CommonLit’s Digital Library Flexibly Supports Any Curriculum

3,000+ literary and informational reading passages, lesson planning resources, comprehension quizzes, and more to support teachers. CommonLit has carefully curated a digital library that offers over 3,000 high-quality...

Get Valuable Teacher Training from CommonLit

For many school administrators, two of the most dreaded words during the “Back to School” season are Teacher Training. In fact, just the term Professional Development alone can elicit groans...

Bring CommonLit to your district in 4 easy steps

Exploring new curriculum options? Work with our team to try out CommonLit 360 with full support in your district. CommonLit 360 is a full-year standards-aligned ELA curriculum for grades 6-12...

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...

CommonLit 360 Makes Accelerated Learning Achievable

Close the performance gap with grade-level content along with strong instruction and support Reading Scores Drop. Students Performing at Lowest Levels in 50 years. Scores are Sinking! Since the National...

CommonLit has earned ESSA Tier 3 Certification

Learn why this matters and how your team can use ESSER funds to purchase our full program CommonLit is deeply committed to ensuring that its comprehensive ELA program works for...

CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0: Everything You Need to Know

Exciting updates to CommonLit’s ELA curriculum for grades 6-8 The CommonLit 360 Curriculum Edition 2.0 for Middle School (grades 6-8) will be fully published by mid-July! Also, next...

12 Reasons Administrators Love CommonLit

Everything you need to know to bring CommonLit to your district. With so many literacy programs on the market, it can be hard to find the right one. To make...

The Comprehensive Guide to CommonLit's Professional Development Portal

Ensure Success with CommonLit by Unlocking Over 60 Trainings for your Team. Is your team planning to roll-out CommonLit' full digital library, benchmark assessments, or full ELA curriculum, CommonLit...

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...

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...

Standards-Based Data Dashboards Make Analyzing Student Growth Even Easier with CommonLit!

At CommonLit, we’re dedicated to helping all students grow as readers while simultaneously making teacher’s lives easier. That’s why we’ve updated our standards-based performance charts to...