Target Lessons

6 Ways to Use Target Lessons in Your Classroom

Use data-driven instruction to remediate skills gaps, teach new strategies in whole or small groups, and engage students with riveting texts. Target Lessons are easy-to-use, highly engaging lessons, designed to be completed in a single class period. These lessons focus on a “target,” or a specific reading skill students will

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 that teach students critical  reading comprehension skills. Each lesson includes scaffolded assessment questions that build student engagement and knowledge as they complete the lesson.

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-use, highly engaging lessons that teach students critical  reading comprehension skills for both fiction and nonfiction texts. Each lesson includes scaffolded Pre-Reading,

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 are highly engaging lessons that teach students critical  reading comprehension skills. Each lesson includes scaffolded Pre-Reading, During Reading, and Post-Reading

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

Target Lessons About Teens We Can Learn From

Empower your students with lessons about teens who are changing the world while helping them practice key comprehension skills with CommonLit’s Target Lessons [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library?contentTypes=lesson_template&initiatedFrom=global_navbar] . At CommonLit, we are always thinking about new ways to support students and teachers,

Target Lessons About Trailblazers

Inspire students with lessons about people who shaped history while helping them practice key comprehension skills with CommonLit’s Target Lessons [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library?contentTypes=lesson_template&initiatedFrom=global_navbar] . At CommonLit, we are always thinking about new ways to support students and teachers, which is why

Target Lessons About Human Behavior

Get students thinking critically with lessons about human behavior while helping them practice key comprehension skills with CommonLit’s Target Lessons [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library?contentTypes=lesson_template&initiatedFrom=global_navbar] . At CommonLit, we are always thinking about new ways to support students and teachers, which is why

Target Lessons About Black History

Teach students about important people and events in Black history while helping them practice key comprehension skills with CommonLit’s Target Lessons [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library?contentTypes=lesson_template&initiatedFrom=global_navbar] . At CommonLit, we are always thinking about new ways to support students and teachers, which is

Target Lessons About Courageous Women

Inspire students with lessons about women who stood up, broke barriers, and changed the world, while helping them practice key comprehension skills with CommonLit’s Target Lessons [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library?contentTypes=lesson_template&initiatedFrom=global_navbar] . At CommonLit, we are always thinking about new ways to support

Target Lessons About Protecting Animals

Build students’ knowledge about animal conservation and help them practice key comprehension skills with CommonLit’s Target Lessons [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library?contentTypes=lesson_template&initiatedFrom=global_navbar] . At CommonLit, we are always thinking about new ways to support students and teachers, which is why we are excited

Presenting CommonLit's New Target Lessons

Check out our new easy-to-use, highly engaging lessons that build specific reading skills! At CommonLit, we’re always thinking of new ways to support students and teachers. That’s why we’re excited to present our new Target Lessons! Target Lessons are short, easy-to-use, highly engaging lessons that support reading,