English & Literacy
CommonLit
A genuinely free ELA program: 2,000+ leveled texts with assessments a nonprofit built properly.
- Grade bands
- 3-5 · 6-8 · 9-12
- Price model
- Free
- Platforms
- Web
- Subject
- English & Literacy
What it is
A nonprofit built a full ELA curriculum and gave it away: thousands of fiction and nonfiction texts with guided reading supports, target lessons, and benchmark assessments. The digital annotation tools teach the reading habits standardized tests assume students already have.
Notable features
- 2,000+ texts
- Annotation tools
- Benchmark data
A way to use it
Turn on guided reading mode for striving readers; the gating questions keep them honest without you hovering.
Privacy and accounts
Nonprofit, school friendly terms, free core forever.
A listing is a starting point, not a district approval. Check your own district's privacy and procurement rules before classroom use. Nobody pays to be listed here, and this link earns no commission.
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