Secondary Classrooms

CommonLit blogs for secondary classrooms give teachers resources to support literacy gains and build reading comprehension for middle school and high school students.

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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,...

Re Marzullo

March 20, 2024 5 min read

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How a CommonLit Teacher Ambassador Empowers all Students

Leigh Pafford teaches special education as well as English as a Second Language (ESL) in New York City, and she was also one of CommonLit’s founding Teacher Ambassadors for...

Re Marzullo

October 5, 2023 3 min read

CommonLit Can Assist With ACT/SAT Test Prep

The testing season is here! No, not the end-of-year testing that schools across the country gear up for each spring. Instead, this is the annual “rite of fall”...

Re Marzullo

September 21, 2023 2 min read

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15 CommonLit Texts Middle School Teachers Will Love

New to CommonLit? A long-time user looking to refresh your lesson plans? Use these texts in your middle school classes! CommonLit is a digital literacy program with over 2,...

Amanda Riddle

August 12, 2019 6 min read