CommonLit 360

“Following the Crowd:” A Short Story Unit from CommonLit 360’s ELA Curriculum That Will Pique Students’ Interest

This ELA Short Story Unit will get students excited about reading and spark incredible classroom discussions. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 is a free English Language Arts curriculum for...

“Writing Your Story: Memoir and Application Essays”: CommonLit 360’s 12th Grade Unit Helps Students Craft their College Essays

This ELA Unit includes high-interest memoirs by contemporary authors like Trevor Noah and Michelle Zauner to serve as examples for students’ application essays. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 is...

The Great Gatsby Novel Study is Ideal for Fostering Reading Comprehension Skills in 11th Grade

This unit includes riveting class discussions that will enthrall your students, including conversations about the American Dream as well as a literary analysis on what makes a novel truly “great....

“The Art of Suspense”: A Thematic Story Unit from CommonLit 360 that Will Spark Incredible Discussions In the Beginning of 8th Grade

This ELA Unit includes high-interest stories about moral dilemmas and distinguishing right from wrong from authors like Roald Dahl and Richard Matheson. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 is a...

“Community and Belonging”: A Thematic Unit from CommonLit’s 360 Curriculum that will Set Students Up for Success in 7th Grade

This ELA Unit includes engaging stories that will help students spark discussions and learn about adolescents’ struggle to fit into their communities. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360 is a...

"Coming of Age": A Short Story Unit from CommonLit's 360 Curriculum that is Perfect for the Beginning of 10th Grade

This ELA Unit includes high-interest short stories about growing up from contemporary authors like Jason Reynolds and Lucy Tan that’ll hook your students. What Is CommonLit 360? CommonLit 360...

Announcing CommonLit 360 Edition 2.0

In the middle of 2021, CommonLit published six CommonLit 360 [https://www.commonlit.org/en/library/units?contentTypes=text&grade=6&initiatedFrom=library] (Edition 1.0 COVID-19 Emergency Release Version)...

An Overview of Argumentative Writing Units in CommonLit 360

CommonLit’s argumentative writing units engage students with interesting topics and activities that build argument skills and encourage student choice. Our comprehensive ELA curriculum, CommonLit360, has highly-engaging argumentative  units that...

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...

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...

CommonLit 360: A Free Curriculum with Affordable Wraparound Services

Wraparound services include professional development, school and districtwide data reports, and benchmark assessments I am so excited to share that after three years of work, CommonLit has published its brand...

Everything You Need to Know About Unit 1 in CommonLit 360 for Grades 6-10

Unit 1s begin the year with engaging short stories with lessons that build literary analysis skills and promote student voice. The first unit of the year in any ELA class...

CommonLit 360 is a Knowledge-Building Curriculum. Kids will Love these Unit Topics.

A run-down of the knowledge forward approach within the CommonLit 360 Curriculum for grades 6–10 I’ll never forget the moment in my teaching career when the lightbulb went...

CommonLit's Professional Development Portal: Supporting a Successful Implementation of CommonLit 360

In my previous role as a Secondary ELA instructional developer for a school district in Florida, I had the exciting opportunity over the past couple years to work in partnership...

CommonLit 360: Flexibility and Teacher Choice through Supplemental Texts

Teachers can use supplemental texts to address the specific needs of their students. The new, comprehensive ELA curriculum, CommonLit 360, embodies the perfect combination of evidence-based practices and features students...

CommonLit 360's Related Media Explorations: Increasing Engagement and Deepening Learning

Learn about how CommonLit’s English Language Arts curriculum engages students in media analysis tasks that bring each CommonLit 360 unit’s topics and themes to life. Maintaining high student...

CommonLit 360 Interactive Reading Lessons: Everything You Need to Know

CommonLit 360’s reading lessons provide the pre-reading activities, during-reading questions, and assessments you need to ensure your students make meaningful progress. CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive digital curriculum for...

CommonLit 360 Utilizes Best Practices to Develop Students' Vocabulary Skills

Learn about the vocabulary assignments and quizzes that come with each CommonLit 360 unit. The link between literacy and vocabulary development is well-documented. Research shows that explicit instruction of high-yield...

Everything you need to know about the Interactive Digital Writing Lessons in CommonLit 360’s ELA Curriculum

CommonLit’s writing lessons are complete with instructional resources, accessibility tools for students, and easy-to-use data reports. CommonLit 360 is free and available for teachers on CommonLit.org. If you...

Middle & High Schools: Join a CommonLit 360 Curriculum Pilot

Learn about an opportunity to pilot the new CommonLit 360 units for grades 6–10 and get exclusive access to coaching, resources, assessments, and support for SY 2021–22 and...

Introducing the CommonLit 360 Curriculum

It’s free. It’s easy to use. It’s fully digital. CommonLit 360 (Edition 1.0 COVID-19 Emergency Release Version) is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive curriculum for English Language Arts....

How CommonLit 360 Can Help Address "Learning Loss"

CommonLit 360 is a comprehensive ELA curriculum for grades 6-12 that accelerates reading comprehension for struggling readers. Educators everywhere are thinking about how to maximize instructional time now that students...

Veteran NYC Teacher Shares Why She Loves CommonLit’s 360 Curriculum

In this interview, you’ll hear from Anne Goldfeder, an 8th grade ELA teacher who has been teaching at J.H.S. 226 Virgil I. Grissom for twenty years. Anne...

School Principal Explains Why CommonLit's 360 Curriculum Works

CommonLit began developing and piloting CommonLit 360, its free full-year ELA curriculum, in 2018. In this interview, you’ll hear from Eric Collazo, the Principal of Washington Leadership Academy. His...

District Administrator Explains Why CommonLit's 360 Curriculum Helps All Teachers

CommonLit began developing and piloting CommonLit 360, its free full-year ELA curriculum, in 2018. In the spring of 2019, Blount County, Tennessee joined this curriculum pilot. In this interview, you’...