CommonLit (https://www.commonlit.org) is website that is run by a nonprofit organization. It is great for grades 3rd through 12th grade. The website is free to use and offers a variety of resources for not only teachers, but parents as well. It offers a variety of categories that parents and teachers can use. Some of the categories consist of texts, target lessons, book pairings, 360 curriculum, and Spanish content. Most of the content on their website was created by teachers for teachers.
The library in CommonLit has over 3000 lessons in English and Spanish. Each lesson comes with lesson planning resources, standards-based assessment questions, text that includes Lexile levels, and other technology tools for students. CommonLit helps to keep teachers organized by providing guided lessons that they can use. Teachers can also easily assign texts that can be graded when complete. Teachers can easily see if there is student growth throughout the school year.
Something that was newly added in 2022 was Target Lessons. You can use Target Lessons if you’re looking to focus on lessons that teach students a key skill such as identifying the main idea or the author’s point of view. These lessons are short and engaging and also includes videos. They also include pre-reading, during, and post reading activities.
Lesson sets are available for use as well, if you’re looking to build on a lesson units and curriculum. This is great to help with lesson planning for teachers as there are theme sets, book pairings, and units that group reading passages. Theme sets group informational and literary passages by theme so that teachers can easily identify lessons. Book pairings provides groups of passages that make thematic connections and give background knowledge doe books students may be reading in class. You can search by theme, topic, and related novels.
A key feature that you can find on the CommonLit website is the full year ELA curriculum. This is provided for grades 6 through 12. There are six units that are provided for each grade level. These are units that include reading, writing, vocabulary, and discussion lessons. The average unit lasts for about five to seven weeks. There is a full scope and sequence that is provided, but you have the option to choose which units you would like to use. All units are standard aligned and include interesting topics and texts.
CommonLit provides professional development for teachers as well. One that is free and available on the website is finding the perfect lesson from the CommonLit library. This offers the best experience on using the website. It also makes recommendations to find what you need for your students and what works best to fit their needs.
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