Find Women’s History Month Resources for Your Classroom with These Lessons by Powerful Women Authors

Celebrate Women’s History Month with our favorite texts by women authors for middle and high schoolers. Discover poetry lessons, biographical texts, and short stories by diverse women authors that will engage your students and increase reading comprehension. Find reading lessons by famous women authors like Zora Neale Hurston, Julia

7 Women’s History Month Lesson Plans for Elementary Students

Discover the women’s voices that have shaped the literary world. Despite making up half the population, women are often underrepresented in classroom resources. Fortunately, our digital library is filled with amazing women authors. Dive into some of our favorite lessons that meet ELA standards, boost reading comprehension, and will

4 Ways to Use CommonLit for Standardized Test Prep

CommonLit has thousands of practice lessons, a free reading assessment, and targeted skills-based lessons teachers can use for standardized test prep. We know that schools are always looking for ways to build student reading skills and prepare students for state testing. Fortunately, CommonLit has a wealth of resources for teachers

Progress Monitoring Made Easy with 360 Unit Skills Assessments

Quickly collect the formative data you need to seamlessly measure student reading comprehension, identify skill gaps, and plan future instruction as you teach CommonLit’s 360 Curriculum Is your team planning to implement CommonLit’s 360 curriculum at your school or district? If so, our Unit Skills Assessments are the

12 poemas para compartir con sus estudiantes

Motive la lectura y el análisis de la poesía en su clase. No hay nada como la magia de leer un hermoso poema. Las imágenes descriptivas, el lenguaje figurativo y las diversas interpretaciones brindan a los estudiantes excelentes oportunidades para debatir sobre distintos temas y reconocer los recursos literarios utilizados

3 Exciting Ways to Celebrate Women’s History Month in Your Classroom

CommonLit’a online digital literacy program offers tons of resources to support teacher lesson planning and unit planning. In this blog, we’ll explore resources featured in our digital library that would be great for a lesson or mini-unit to celebrate Women’s History Month with your students. Whether you’

NEW: CommonLit Español Study Shows Increased Student Reading Growth Connected to Teacher Professional Development

This exciting new study demonstrates the effectiveness of CommonLit Español when paired with teacher professional development. CommonLit Español offers over 800 texts in Spanish, including literary and informational texts by influential authors like Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel García Márquez. We also have over 70 Lecciones Guiadas, interactive lessons that

Teach Your Elementary Class about Black Women who Shattered Glass Ceilings

Dive into 8 informational texts about powerful women who made history. Explore our digital literacy platform and find amazing informational texts about inspiring Black women. Learning about these empowering leaders will spark reading engagement for elementary students and bolster reading comprehension with guided reading questions and annotation tools. “What a

Exciting News: Updates Coming to CommonLit 360 for Middle School (Grades 6-8)

Our new and updated units are responsive to research and teacher feedback, and have been created with student and teacher growth in mind. Big news: CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0 for Middle School (grades 6-8) will be fully available by July 2023! Edition 2.0 is an upgrade to the

15 textos sobre mujeres inspiradoras

El mes de marzo enmarca la conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer. Sin duda, un día que permite valorar las luchas que distintas mujeres han emprendido para construir sociedades más equitativas. En CommonLit hemos seleccionado 15 historias protagonizadas por mujeres que han derribado estereotipos, que han luchado por generar

CommonLit opens pathways to higher education in Mexico

Maestro Javier is an 11th and 12th grade teacher in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. He’s been teaching for over five years. Last school year he used CommonLit as a tool that allowed two students to achieve their dreams. Here’s his story: Maestro Javier, why did you decide

10 Stories of Black Women Who Shaped the United States

Celebrate the achievements, contributions, and excellence of Black women as we transition from Black History Month to Women’s History Month. CommonLit’s online digital literacy program provides teachers with access to thousands of compelling, free texts and comprehension questions. In this blog post, we will highlight ten biographies and

CommonLit abre caminos para acceder a la educación superior

El Maestro Javier es docente en la ciudad de Guadalajara, en México. Trabaja en segundo y tercer grado de Educación Media Superior, que corresponde a 11º y 12º grados. Ha estado enseñando durante más de cinco años. El ciclo escolar pasado utilizó CommonLit  como una herramienta que le permitió a

How CommonLit 360 Uses Research-Backed Practices to Improve Student Reading Comprehension

Learn how CommonLit 360 is aligned to the Science of Reading’s best practices for teaching reading comprehension to secondary students. Introduction The Science of Reading is a body of research incorporating psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to explain how students learn to read. The Simple View of Reading is

Top 4 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 to ensure student success. You have a lot on your plate, too! That’s why CommonLit 360 is here to

Tres características principales que debe tener un cuento corto

Quizás quienes tienen más interés en contar cuentos cortos a las niñas y niños son las madres y los padres de familia, pues con el poco tiempo que tienen por el trajín del día a día, son una excelente opción para crear vínculos, enriquecer la capacidad lingüística e inculcar valores.

This Valentine’s Day, Teach Reading Lessons Your Whole Class Will Love Most Ardently

As they say in Romeo and Juliet, “My bounty is as boundless as the sea.” Check out our bounty of love stories on CommonLit. With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, bring the love to your classroom with these reading lessons about love that will get students’ hearts beating. Bolster student’

NEW: Study of CommonLit 360 Demonstrates Positive Gains on Student Reading Achievement and Teacher Practice

A new study in collaboration with Mathematica shows impressive student and teacher growth with the use of CommonLit 360! CommonLit 360 is our comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12. Each unit includes engaging and standards-aligned reading, writing, discussion, vocabulary, and multimedia lessons. An exciting new study, conducted with external collaborator

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 Texts to Celebrate the Harlem Renaissance

These engaging and diverse works help teachers showcase and explore the Harlem Renaissance with their students. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement in the 1920s and 1930s. Black Americans in Harlem celebrated self expression through music, fashion, theater, literature and more. Artists of the Harlem Renaissance, such

7 Original Environmental Short Stories for Elementary Students

CommonLit’s online digital literacy program offers an abundance of texts to best support elementary reading comprehension, including CommonLit Originals. CommonLit Originals are exclusively found on CommonLit and include stories by famous authors like Gary Soto and Lucy Tan.  Additionally, the CommonLit Originals project aims to build a robust and

CommonLit Originals: Engaging, Diverse Stories only Available on CommonLit!

Check out dozens of high-interest and timely short stories, available only on our library. CommonLit’s library is home to over 3,000 digital lessons on a wide range of topics, complete with reading comprehension questions to sharpen standards-based skills and to prepare students for high-stakes tests. Now, teachers will

7 Texts by Contemporary Black Authors for Secondary Students

CommonLit’s digital literacy program will help enhance your reading curriculum with these lessons which include guiding questions, Paired Texts, Related Media, and other tools to boost student reading comprehension. The following poems, memoirs, and short stories by Black authors, will foster meaningful discussions around real world experiences such as

Celebrating Black Excellence: Famous Biographies for Elementary Students

These engaging and diverse biographies for elementary students, all featured on CommonLit’s digital literary platform, share the inspiring stories of Black Americans across history, sports, and more. Reading about these empowering leaders and innovators will surely spark reading engagement from elementary students, launch deep classroom discussions, and support reading

8 Inspiring Biographies Featuring Influential Black Americans for Secondary Students

These engaging and diverse biographies on CommonLit’s digital literary platform will inspire your students to dream big and achieve excellence while strengthening their reading comprehension skills. CommonLit’s online digital literacy program provides teachers with access to thousands of compelling, free texts and comprehension questions. In this blog post,