Schools & Districts

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 from admin as they work to balance all the extra responsibilities that the beginning of the school year brings against

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 that includes highly engaging units, supports all learners, and is shown to accelerate student learning. Choosing a new curriculum is

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 students. Over the past several years, our team has conducted rigorous research on the effectiveness of our 360 curriculum. Our

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 month any Edition 1.0 units that are being fully replaced in our new Edition 2.0 curriculum will be

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

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 lots of new content, published some exciting research, and continued to make teacher’s lives easier and help students excel

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 make analyzing data and planning targeted instruction seamless for teachers using our digital literacy program. Our standards-based reports calculate student

New Library Feature: Teacher Overviews

As a teacher, finding the right text is time consuming. Reading text after text in its entirety to figure out if it fits the unit or highlights the right teaching point takes a lot of time and brainpower. There has to be a better way! At CommonLit, our instructional experts

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 have the reading, writing, and communication skills needed to be successful. That is why we created a comprehensive ELA curriculum,

Everything You Need to Know about CommonLit’s Free Reading Assessment and Premium Assessment Series

We know that it is critically important for teachers to collect accurate data on student reading performance. At CommonLit, we’re excited to offer two options to teachers and schools: the CommonLit Free Reading Assessment and the CommonLit Assessment Series. In this blog post, we’ll tell you everything you

CommonLit’s School-Wide Data Reports Make Progress Monitoring Easy

CommonLit School Essentials PRO gives teachers and administrators performance, usage, and growth data access for all students At CommonLit, we’ve created a comprehensive and engaging literacy program with over 3,000 high-quality lessons that has been proven to help students make significant gains in reading. For SY 23–24,

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 can use to boost their students’ reading comprehension.   We’re excited to highlight Target Lessons, the newest addition to our

Research Shows Accelerated Reading Comprehension Gains with CommonLit

Learn all about the benefits of implementing CommonLit’s evidence-based digital literacy program and benchmark assessments. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that students with higher usage of CommonLit’s digital program demonstrated significant academic growth. This growth is clear at higher levels of utilization, with positive effects among elementary,

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 literacy program that provides schools with a free ELA curriculum and over 3,000 supplemental lessons. For schools and districts

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 quality, and affordable. Teachers can administer up to three specialized benchmark assessments throughout the school year that each include three

Exciting CommonLit Additions for SY 22–23

Canvas integration, 360 Units for grades 11 and 12, and hundreds of new lessons! At CommonLit, we’re always thinking of new ways to support teachers and students. That’s why we’re excited to share some great new additions to our digital literacy program for SY22–23! Canvas Integration

CommonLit Integrates with Canvas

Learn about the benefits of this powerful LMS integration and how you can unlock it for your team. At CommonLit, we’re committed to ensuring that our award-winning digital literacy program is as accessible and easy to use as possible. That is why we’re proud to offer a Canvas

Unlock High Quality Professional Development for CommonLit 360

CommonLit’s on-demand professional development gets teachers ready to teach every 360 Unit. CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive and effective ELA curriculum for grades 6–12. The curriculum includes 6 engaging units per grade. Each unit comes complete with rigorous reading, writing, vocabulary, and discussion lessons. For schools and districts

Unlock the Full Benefits of CommonLit 360 with CommonLit School Essentials PRO

The professional development, data tracking tools, and wrap-around supports needed to roll out CommonLit’s comprehensive English Language Arts curriculum for grades 6–12 CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive digital reading curriculum for grades 6–12. Each unit in the ELA curriculum comes complete with rigorous and engaging reading, writing,

Spark Reading Growth with CommonLit School Essentials

CommonLit School Essentials gives schools and districts access to onboarding and Professional Development supports needed to take full advantage of CommonLit’s digital program - for just $2,000 per school per year! You might already be familiar with CommonLit.org, a digital literacy program that has been proven to

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 reading passages and digital lessons for students in grades 3–12. We offer seminal works from many of the best

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 360? If so, CommonLit's Professional Development Portal is essential. The Portal includes: * 15+ trainings to maximize your team's usage of CommonLit's

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 decision process a bit easier, we’ve compiled the top 12 reasons why CommonLit is the ideal program for