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Students need literacy skills to match their knowledge environments. UNESCO (2003) framed its Literacy Decade positioning literacy as a freedom beyond reading and writing, to include capacities for communication and equal participation in the world. This recognizes multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996) and a knowledge paradigm of multi-modal, constantly shifting, non-linear communication, especially in digital form, that has shifted how we understand literacy.

CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 5-12. Our resources are: Flexible; Research-Based; Aligned to the Common Core State Standards; Created by teachers, for teachers. We believe in the transformative power of a great text, and a great question. That's why we are committed to keeping CommonLit completely free, forever. Themes include: America, comedy & tradegy, death, education, feat & paranoia, friendship & loyalty, growing up, identity, justice freedom & equality, love, man vs nature, men & women and more. Two though provoking questions posed against each.

A data base of chidlren's literature that explores diversity maintained by the Canadian Children's Book Centre