CommonLit's Text Features
Elements of a CommonLit text
- Can students highlight or add notes to an assignment? How do students annotate?
- Can I try out annotations? How can I model annotations for my students?
- Why does CommonLit use "they" instead of "him" or "her" when referring to the speaker of a poem or one person on the site?
- Is there a parent guide for texts?
- Can I change the Lexile level of a text?
- Do you have accessibility supports for struggling readers, students with IEPs, or ELLs?
- Does CommonLit work on iPads?
- Can teachers and students translate text into another language?
- How can I use CommonLit texts in my lessons?
- How can I use the discussion questions in my lesson?
- How can I use related media in my classroom?
- How can I use paired texts in my classroom?
- Can I print out CommonLit texts and questions?
- Which types of questions can students answer through the CommonLit platform?
- What are the differences between a "guiding question," an "assessment question," and a "discussion question"?
- Do you have exemplars for each short-answer question that I could share with my students?