Analyzing Individual Student Performance with CommonLit

Diving into an individual student’s data is a great way for teachers to develop a deep understanding of the student’s strengths and areas for growth. By analyzing different...

What Are Common Teaching Methods Used By Teachers That Boost Classroom Engagement?

CommonLit is on a mission to empower educators to better support their students by optimizing teaching practices. Through CommonLit’s online digital literacy program, teachers gain access to thousands of...

Windows and Mirrors in Literature | Diverse Stories on CommonLit

Our library provides an array of texts that serve as windows and mirrors, to help students both see themselves and learn about others in the literature they explore in class....

CommonLit’s Professional Development Saves Teachers’ Time and Helps Them Effectively Implement 360

Looking to effectively implement CommonLit 360? CommonLit’s Professional Development modules set both teachers and students up for success. Get a quote CommonLit 360 is our research-backed ELA curriculum for...

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...

Elevate Instruction in Spanish Immersion and World Language Classes with CommonLit Español

CommonLit Español has over 800 Spanish texts. The library features a variety of literary and informational texts by influential authors and poets like Alma Flor Ada, Federico García Lorca, and...

Supporting Struggling Readers with CommonLit 360

Vocabulary activities, differentiated reading lessons, scaffolded writing, and more to accelerate learning for all students. Teaching ELA units to struggling readers can be daunting. CommonLit 360 is intentionally designed to...

All the Ways CommonLit Supports English Language Learners

CommonLit’s free digital literacy program helps support English language Learners with digital accessibility tools, scaffolded reading comprehension, explicit vocabulary instruction, and more. CommonLit’s free online digital literacy program...

CommonLit: Built for All Learners

Text-to-speech, translation in over 30 languages, digital annotations, scaffolded comprehension questions, and more are available on CommonLit. “I teach students from our lowest performers to our honors students, and I...

5 Strategies to Increase Motivation and Engagement in the Classroom

Challenge all of your students with CommonLit's compelling reading curriculum to increase motivation and engagement in the classroom The best lesson is one that challenges students without overwhelming them. It...

CommonLit for Co-Teachers

Tips for adding a co-teacher to your classes on CommonLit At CommonLit, we believe that with the right support, all students can access high-quality, rigorous texts. Students are more successful...

3 Ways to Maximize Student Learning with CommonLit

Engage students in meaningful learning with these three purposeful strategies! As teachers, we always want to make sure students are engaged in meaningful learning. It’s important to provide them...

3 Ways to Use CommonLit in Social Studies Classrooms

Check out these strategies for effectively using CommonLit in social studies classrooms! Literacy is an essential component of social studies classes, but it can be really hard to find relevant,...

Easy Tips for Data Analysis with CommonLit

Analyzing student performance is easy with CommonLit’s data tracking tools for teachers and administrators! Developing a deep understanding of student data is critical for all educators. It helps teachers...

5 Ways CommonLit Helps Teachers Monitor Student Understanding

CommonLit’s technology helps teachers understand how students are growing. Providing students with targeted feedback is critically important. It helps to hold students accountable, makes them realize that you care...

Encourage Students to Embrace a Growth Mindset

Use CommonLit’s library and data tools to help students learn from their mistakes! Creating a classroom culture where mistakes are celebrated is a great way to promote student progress....

Strategically Utilizing CommonLit Lessons to Track Meaningful Data as a Team

Embed CommonLit’s lessons into your district’s curriculum to facilitate data driven instruction & progress monitoring. Schools and district administrators are constantly bombarded with data. With many teachers assigning different...

4 Ways to Use CommonLit to Support Differentiation

Innovative ways CommonLit's literacy program supports differentiation in the classroom Differentiation — a buzzword in education that can mean many different things. Small-group instruction. One-on-one support. Different versions of the same...

3 Ways to Effectively Use CommonLit's Annotation Tool with Students

CommonLit’s annotation tool is a great way to have students interact with a text! Annotating a text is an important way for students to track their thinking about what...

Making Meaning out of Standards Performance Data

Leverage CommonLit’s standards data for individual students The most important thing for a teacher to know is how her students are doing. A good teacher understands this, and has...

5 Steps for Great Extended Constructed Responses

In this post, teacher Cara Popecki gives tips to make writing effective, collaborative, and fun. It’s on every major college readiness and state exam, and it also elicits the...

Leveraging Guided Reading Mode

The best tool for reading comprehension As a right-brained English teacher, I did not jump for joy when it came to grading and analyzing data. Although I knew that data-driven...