CommonLit: Fiction and Non-Fiction Reading Passages for Grades 5-12
A Library Media colleague shared CommonLit a few weeks ago. In reviewing this resource, I feel it is worthy of posting on my blog.
CommonLit is created by teachers for teachers. It is a researched-based and Common Core aligned resource of free instructional materials to support literacy development. The library of text sets is well organized by grade levels covering a variety of historical, cultural, and political topics. This resource is great for Social Studies or English Language Arts classes.
In browsing the CommonLit library, you can narrow your search by grade level, theme, genre, literary devices, and standards. You also can select texts by lexile. This resource provides text-dependent questions for reading and writing. As a part of every text,on the right above the Questions, there are icons to access a dictionary, have the article read to the user, highlight important parts of the article, and translate the text to Spanish.
Teachers can register for a free account where CommonLit can be used as a learning platform to assign texts. With this free account, teachers can analyze student performance.
The FAQs share that CommonLit is working to expand the library to include texts appropriate for 3rd and 4th grade classes.
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