How do I assign a unit?

CommonLit offers units for grades 3-12 to facilitate aligned lesson plans around an essential question or inquiry topic. You can browse CommonLit's 360 units here.

It is not currently possible to assign an entire unit at once on CommonLit. Instead, you will need to assign all of the texts within a unit individually.

To do so, select 360 Curriculum in the menu on the left > choose the grade level you want to view > select a unit. From there, click the Lessons tab and scroll down to find the lesson you want to assign. Click Show More for the lesson, and then select the Preview or Assign button.

You will be taken to the Student Assignment Preview Page, and from there you can click on the teal Assign button at the top of the page. The Create an assignment view will pop up, and you can select the class(es) you want to assign the lesson to, whether you want to enable/disable Reading Modalities, if you want to require responses to In-Text Questions, and which assessment questions you want students to answer. Then, set the start and due date for the assignment, customize your directions (optional), and click the yellow Assign button.

Please note: Only Reading Lessons, Writing Lessons, and Vocabulary Quizzes are digitally assignable. The remaining assignment types, such as Related Media Lessons, Vocabulary Activities, Discussion Lessons, Grammar and Usage Activities, and Culminating Tasks, are not currently digitally assignable within CommonLit.

If you wish to assign any of these assignments to your students, you can access the Google Docs or Google Slides associated with those lessons by clicking Show More on the Lessons tab. You'll then need to select the document or slides that you would like to see and click the Make a copy button on the next page. You can then share it with students in an LMS, such as Google Classroom or Canvas, via email, or by printing copies.