Can I print CommonLit 360 lessons?

Almost all assignments in CommonLit 360 are printable (with the exception of a small handful of lessons where the downloadable copies do not contain the text due to copyright restrictions). You can find printable versions of the assignments by going to the Lessons page of your chosen unit, and then finding the lesson you want to assign.

For Vocabulary Activity Sets, Grammar and Usage Activities, Grammar Quizzes, Discussion Lessons, and Culminating Tasks, click Show More, and then click View Lesson Materials. On this page, you will be able to preview all Lesson Materials for the lesson. Most of these materials are available as Google Docs or Google Slides. To print, select the material on the left, and then click the Copy this Document button. This will take you outside of CommonLit. The copy can then be edited and printed. 

If your school or district does not use Google, then to copy a Google Doc or slide as a non-Google user:

1. Right-click the Google materials link
2. Copy the URL
3. Paste the copied link into your URL bar
4. Remove "/copy" from the end. This will give you a view-only version of the lesson that you can then download without having to be logged into a Google account.

For Vocabulary Activity Sets, Grammar and Usage Activities, Grammar Quizzes, Discussion Lessons, and Culminating Tasks, you are also able to click the Assign this Lesson button in the upper right-hand portion of the screen. Once the Create an Assignment view opens, you will need to select the name of the class you want to assign the lesson to and input a due date. Once you click Assign, you should see a window with a Download All Lesson Materials button. You can click that to download a zip file containing all of the lesson materials for that particular lesson. The files will all be PDFs so if you need editable versions of those documents, then you would need to go back to the Lesson Materials tab and make copies of the individual documents.

Accessing the documents this way means the on-paper lesson will be assigned to your CommonLit class(es) to allow for easy tracking of assignments, however you will not be able to score these lessons on the CommonLit platform.

For Reading Lessons, Writing Lessons, and Vocabulary Quizzes, click Show More, then click on the Preview or Assign button. Then, click Lesson Materials above the preview. The printable documents for these lessons will be displayed on the left side of the preview. Each can be downloaded using the Copy this Document button or Download PDF button (due to copyright agreements, Reading Lessons are not available in Google Doc format).

To print a Reading Lesson, first download a PDF copy. To do this, click on the Lesson Materials tab above the preview, and then select either the Teacher Copy or the Student Copy. If you select the Student Copy, you will be asked how many students you will be distributing the PDF to. Once you have selected an answer from the dropdown, you can then click "Download PDF" to be taken to the PDF Student Copy of the lesson. 

If you plan to assign a Reading Lesson, Writing Lesson, or Vocabulary Quiz on paper rather than digitally, then you can click the Assign this Lesson button in the upper right corner of the screen, and then select the On Paper option when the Create an Assignment view opens. You will then need to select the class you want to assign it to and set a due date. Once you click Assign, a window will pop up with a Download All Lesson Materials button. If you click that, you will be able to download a zip file that contains all of the documents in that lesson.

Have more questions about CommonLit 360? Reach out to help@commonlit.org.