Community reviews for CommonLit

CommonLit is a good resource for grammar, punctuation, and language. It starts by letting students pick what topics they are interested in (books, music, TV they liked) and bases the readings and questions on those topics. Students will then read an excerpt from the story or CommonLit will use character names to ask questions or make students correct and find what is wrong within the excerpt. They can click through options and pick which one is best for them. When they get a question wrong, CommonLit will ask a similar question but in a different format just to try and make the students understand the question or encourage them to not give up.

I personally think this is a good website to help students improve their reading. I like the tools provided on the website, since it helps students who have a difficult time with words. I also love that the website provides you with many choices and options for you to read; you're not limited to a specific genre or subject.

I would love for this to be an online activity. But the cheating has to be stopped.

CommonLit is an important tool in our Language Arts classroom. I like the supports built into each assignment, the ease of measuring student performance, and the ease of integration with Google Classroom. Honestly, there is nothing that I do not like.

I think this is a great resource for teachers to use in their classrooms. It's not flashy or gamified, but it does focus on standards-based analysis of leveled texts. It's really been useful as a library to draw from when I want to focus on a specific standard or skill. I also really enjoyed using it for reteaching or extension activities for different personalized learning goals.

i love it. It is very easy to use and great for virtual or remote learning.

This is an excellent teaching tool. I like the fact that I can assign questions to my students, which promote higher level thinking and analysis skills. The account is easy to set up and free for teachers.

I really am a fan of this application. Having access to so many news articles, poems, short stories, and historical documents is very helpful for students. Being that I teach English, this is a dream. Assignments can be given directly on this platform and to make things even easier, this tool has a grading/feedback option as well. I can assign readings from the time period we are studying or use this as a historical background tool when teaching literature. This tool also translates words, defines words and helps students understand what they are reading.

I really appreciate this tool as a way to also integrate technology into the classroom. Since students would gain the same knowledge or be completing the same task -reading and analyzing a historic text- this would fall in the Substitution portion of the SAMR framework. With the proper, direct instruction of the tools provided by CommonLit, it could serve as a great implementation of TPACK. Although this use of technology falls much lower on the SAMR framework, it still provides as an invaluable tool for differentiated learning,

Would love to see more articles that are lower lexile related for below reading levels.