CommonLit vs Teachit

CommonLit is a nonprofit literacy provider offering teaching materials and an English language arts program for schools. Its Text Library gives teachers access to thousands of free literary works and texts from diverse and contemporary authors. CommonLit 360 is a full-year, standards-aligned curriculum for grades 6–12, combining reading, writing, speaking, and listening around complete texts and grade-level tasks. It includes three benchmark assessments for tracking students’ reading growth and proficiency during the school year. The materials support literacy development for grades 3–12, while the 360 curriculum covers grades 6–12. Listed integrations include Clever, ClassLink, Canvas, and Google Classroom; Canvas is limited to eligible paid school packages. Google Classroom can import classes and students, post assignments to the class stream, and export scores to the gradebook. The Digital plan is free for teachers and students. School plans are listed at $4,200 a year, $7,200 a year, and $12,800 a year, each with a one-year commitment.

Teachit Studio helps primary and secondary teachers create classroom resources from a topic and year group, or transform PDFs, recordings, and YouTube lessons into teaching materials and study notes. It generates worksheets, quizzes, lesson plans, flashcards, exit tickets, task cards, vocabulary sets, and differentiated worksheets, among other formats. The service covers 16 year groups and 16 subjects. Studio accepts PDFs up to 50 MB, audio recordings up to 90 minutes, and YouTube videos up to 45 minutes, or 30 minutes without captions. Resources are branded, print-ready PDFs; mark schemes come with pupil and teacher copies. Word export is in beta. Teachers can assign live quizzes by QR code, link, or short code, and pupils can join without accounts. Uploaded content is sent to AI providers for generation, but Teachit says it is not used to train AI models. Generated content may contain errors, so teachers should review it before class use.