CommonLitReviews 24

The pain I went through while completing these assignments is crazy. I don't understand how English teachers can know what this site does to us and still use it. It is terrible and so boring, and if you get one question wrong then your grade drops to like a 70 and it makes me want to commit various things.

All you do is just. Scroll and most people who does this reviews, fail a LOT. I think this is one of the worst websites ever known to man. Don't even try to use this website. Just use other ones.

THIS APP IS TRASH I BARELY WORKS AND IT WILL NOT LET YOU SEE THE QUEASTION I AM VERY HARD ON MYSELF SO WHEN I GET THE QUEASTION WRONG BECUSE I COULD NO SEE IT MAKE ME SO SAD ALSO I BELEIVE THAT THIS APP DOESNT HELP YOUNG LEARNER I MAKE THE MORE TRIED AND SAD WHICH CAN LEAD TO SELF HARM AND OTHER BAD THINGS SO PLS DELETE THIS

The questions are so weird and the stories are more boring than waiting at the doctors office! And it asked me on a good deeds story? "How does race contribute to good deeds?" thats the most random and ultra liberal thing ive got a type and reponse about it.

This is Commonlit app is cool by itself but the only 2 things is that my school and home computer is on dark mode for all apps and seeing that it doesn't use it and is really an eyesore for me and the scrolling, you have to scroll to the bottom limit for the question to move as well and long stories make it worse. Please fix this stuff > :(

I have a deep hatred towards this site because it changed the course of my life. It never has many decent books, I'll give it that but, it is horrible with teaching me. If I get things wrong it doesn't say how I should improve and the only reason I use it is because my teacher prefers it to check if we are submitting assignments and its just overall easier on his end. I have a suggestion for commonlit. Light the site on fire so you can truly call it common lit. But really I think it should teach me how to improve my work. Honestly I think Readworks is the superior site but it needs to teach me how to improve my work to. Readworks has a better layout though and I can read the text better without squinting. So commonlit, make the text bigger, make your paragraphs less blocky and teach me how to improve.

I hate this website, the stories are very uninteresting and get boring very easily. Another thing that I hate about this website is that it doesn't give an explanation as to why you get a question wrong; it just tells you it's wrong. I feel like I just do commonlit for an accuracy grade and nothing else, thank you commonlit for making me hate english more.

This website deserves a 1 out of 5 stars. Many teacher (including my own) either do not know how to teach their students or are too lazy to do so despite having high college degrees in English. They rely on this website, CommonLit, to "teach" their students, but this website proves to do the exact opposite. Getting just one answer wrong proves to bring one's score down tremendously. Even after getting a question wrong and the assignment is graded, the website does not allow to show the write answer, and does not care to explain why it is right. Tell me, how do you teach a child if they don't know why what they chose was wrong? They will just continue to live not knowing why their answer was wrong, and possibly make the same mistake in the future. This website does not teach children what so ever, and I do not advise it for teachers to use. If you are an English teacher, please attempt to teach your class something useful rather than being lazy and assigning a garbage website to "teach" children. Thank you.

Respectful the system did not live up to it's standards and wasted 38 minutes of our class time thank you

Why... Just Why...
Anotating...
So Much Writing...
RACE...
To Much Work In Such Short Time...
It's Just So Boring...
And Very Stressful...
One Star Review.

My district purchased a different program that didn't include scope or sequence. CommonLit did everything for free!

WHY DO SCHOOLS HAVE TO USE THIS STUPID COMMONLIT CRAP?! REALLY?!

None of the commonlit stories and questions make sense. The questions are the most ridiculous questions someone could possibly ask. Like here is one of the questions..."How does Nicholas Gray respond to human's treatment of animals?" Like who the heck is going to know something like that? What does it matter about how the freaking author responds to human treatment of the animals?! IT DOESNT MATTER. SERIOUSLY. I wish the schools would pick something else to teach kids about besides commonlit. To the creator of commonlit... This is the worst app you could create!

If you get the first question wrong then you are sure to get the rest of them wrong since commonlit bases the other questions on your answer to the 1st question. Not very well thought out. Plus the questions are vague.

My school chose to use another program from an acclaimed English program, and I tried to utilize it for a while. Unfortunately, it was extremely unfriendly to teacher and students, and my kids learned nothing after a few units. When I heard that CommonLit was a potential, free curriculum, I figured I had nothing to lose.

I AM SO HAPPY I FOUND IT!

The lessons are easy to follow, engaging, and accessible for kids. There are a lot of worksheets (I chose to complete everything by hand, but there IS an online option available... maybe that's what the negative reviews are referring to?) BUT my kids have appreciated the concrete instructions and the routine of reading a text (sometimes multiple times for different purposes,) analyzing it for specific traits, and writing responses. The variety of texts is awesome, as the kids will read nonfiction texts, stories, poems, reviews, etc. all in the same units. Each unit is built around a theme, so the kids are learning skills but also connecting the theme to their lives. Their writing and reading skills have already improved exponentially! I cannot recommend it enough.