I was so thrilled to see this post by Richard Byrne (who is one of my favorite Engaging Educators!) about CommonLit.
This is going to be an awesome resource for me to use with my 4th and 5th grade GT students. I will let Richard tell you the details, but suffice it to say that it is a great way to encourage deep discussion in your class, and offers downloadable texts that you can use to tantalize your students with philosophical questions.
I plan to use this with Socratic Smackdown (which I also found out about from Richard). Socratic Smackdown has been a great success in my classroom and CommonLit will augment it even more.
You might also want to consider using some of the CommonLit themes to enrich your students’ writing if they are participating in this year’s Philosophy Slam (deadline is 3/6/15). The “Social Change and Revolution” theme on CommonLit could definitely help students determine if violence or compassion has a greater impact on society.
