Educator Resources for K-12 Schools – OverDrive Resource Center

K-12 Schools

Resources for Educators

Educational, curriculum and promotional resources to support students and teachers.

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Getting started

Learn about Sora, the student reading app

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Promoting Sora

Increase Student Reading & Engagement

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Educator Training

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Collection Dev.

Curated lists for recommended reading

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New & Popular Resources

Diverse Reads Reading Challenge
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Reading Activities

K-12

Diverse Reads Reading Challenge

This kit includes 1 Reading Challenge and 1 suggested title list.

Diverse Reads Reading Challenge

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Sora Coloring Sheet
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App Activities

Sora Coloring Sheet

This kit includes 1 Coloring Sheet.

Sora Coloring Sheet

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Scavenger Hunt
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App Activities

Scavenger Hunt

Educate your users about Sora with a fun set of scavenger hunt missions and tasks to complete. This kit includes 2 levels, 1 for young readers and 1 for teens.

Scavenger Hunt

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Bingo
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Reading activities

Bingo

Encourage students to have a little fun in Sora this summer with this Sora at Home BINGO. Share on your social channels and encourage students to share on their own!

Bingo

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Spanish Titles for Young Readers

Free Ebooks & Audiobooks

Spanish Titles for Young Readers

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Own Voices & Diversity Books for Students

Free Ebooks & Audiobooks

Own Voices & Diversity Books for Students

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No-Cost Classic Literature

Free Ebooks & Audiobooks

No-Cost Classic Literature

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Annotations and Vocabulary

Classroom Features

Annotations and Vocabulary

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Reading Achievements Board
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Posters & Flyers

Reading Achievements Board

This kit includes 1 Achievements Board.

Reading Achievements Board

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Dyslexic Font Poster
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Posters & Flyers

Dyslexic Font Poster

This kit includes 1- 11 x17 Poster.

Dyslexic Font Poster

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Adventure Begins! Bookmarks
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Bookmarks and half-sheets

Adventure Begins! Bookmarks

This kit includes 5 bookmarks.

Adventure Begins! Bookmarks

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Sora Teen Audiobooks Flyer
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Posters & Flyers

Sora Teen Audiobooks Flyer

This kit includes 1 Flyer.

Sora Teen Audiobooks Flyer

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Sora Overview

How-to videos

Sora Overview

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PART I: Getting Started with Sora

How-to videos

PART I: Getting Started with Sora

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PART IV: Enjoying Ebooks in Sora

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PART IV: Enjoying Ebooks in Sora

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PART V: Enjoying Audiobooks and Other…

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PART V: Enjoying Audiobooks and Other…

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Getting Started with OverDrive Marketplace

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Getting Started with OverDrive Marketplace

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Getting Started with Sora

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Getting Started with Sora

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Looking Back, Staying Strong: The books and products that kept us going in 2020

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Looking Back, Staying Strong: The books and products that kept us going in 2020

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Promoting Your Digital Library During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

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Promoting Your Digital Library During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

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Comics Across the Curriculum
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Lesson Plan

Comics Across the Curriculum

This kit contains 1 PDF lesson plan for using comics and graphic novels in the classroom, 2 comic-style graphics to print or post on social media, a link to our Digital Comics from Overdrive on-demand webinar, and a link to our recommended lists of comics and graphic novels for purchase in OverDrive Marketplace.

Comics Across the Curriculum

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Sora for Students
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PowerPoint Kit

Sora for Students

This template contains 1 PowerPoint presentation, 1 demonstration checklist, and 1 set of instructions.

Sora for Students

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Sora and Marketplace
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Virtual Learning KiT

Sora and Marketplace

This kit contains 2 easy-to-follow elearning modules for educators (Sora and Marketplace), 1 easy-to-follow elearning module on Sora for students, a PDF of instructions, and 5 accompanying promotional graphics.

Sora and Marketplace

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Reading to Learn with Sora
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Curriculum Kit

Reading to Learn with Sora

This kit contains 5 instructional video links and 5 accompanying PDF handouts.

Reading to Learn with Sora

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Popular Reading
Celebrating Diversity
S.T.E.A.M.
Languages & Learning
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Winter Marketing Kit
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Promotional Kits

Winter Marketing Kit

This kit includes 1 Flyer and 3 Social Graphics.

Winter Marketing Kit

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Read & Achieve Kit
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Promotional Kits

Read & Achieve Kit

This kit includes 2 leaderboards (1 for general use and 1 highlighting new subject-based achievements), 1 Achievements Breakdown Flyer, 1 Suggested Title List, and 2 Social Graphics.

Read & Achieve Kit

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Multilingual Marketing Kits
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Promotional Kits

Multilingual Marketing Kits

This kit includes 1 Flyer, 1 Bookmark (Front & Back), 1 Web Graphic, and 1 Introduction Document. Choose a language to download: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) French German Italian Japanese Russian Spanish Swedish

Multilingual Marketing Kits

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For Every Reader Kit
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Promotional Kits

For Every Reader Kit

This kit contains 1 Flyer and 9 Graphics.

For Every Reader Kit

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New Year, New Chapter

Social media Graphics

New Year, New Chapter

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Chill Out

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Chill Out

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Getting Started

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Getting Started

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School’s Closed

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School’s Closed

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School Stars Returns!

Save the date: Feb 1, 2021

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K-12 School Blog Posts

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Resources for reluctant readers

10/27/2020

Because I work in marketing in the education space, I’ve long believed teen readers to be our most elusive audience. I have to attempt to appeal to their tastes without being too on-the-nose. On top of that, our materials should convey what’s great…

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New no-cost books for schools: “Spanish Titles for Young Readers”

10/21/2020

OverDrive is committed to providing your school with no-cost, simultaneous access collections to help meet increased demand for digital content. As part of our OverDrive Community Read programs, at the end of October we are donating a collection…

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Sora Saves Series: Save time, money & energy with Sora NOW

10/15/2020

In the very interesting times we find ourselves in, the biggest considerations in most of our decision-making are probably time, money and energy. Those three things have great value in that they either relieve — or cause — stress. When we sat down…
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