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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Learn about Sora, the student reading app

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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

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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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Professional Book Nerds 2021 Reading Challenge
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Reading activities

Professional Book Nerds 2021 Reading Challenge

Professional Book Nerds 2021 Reading Challenge

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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

Low cost Ebooks & Audiobooks

Own Voices & Diversity Books for Students

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No-Cost Classic Literature

Low cost Ebooks & Audiobooks

Recorded Books Simultaneous Use Packages for Kids

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Annotations and Vocabulary

Classroom Features

Annotations and Vocabulary

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Battle of the Books Poster
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Posters & Flyers

Battle of the Books Poster

This kit includes 1 Achievements Board.

Battle of the Books Poster

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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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Getting Started with Sora

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Getting Started with Marketplace

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Getting Started with Marketplace

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Next Steps with Sora

How-to videos

Next Steps with Sora

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Sora for Your Classroom

How-to videos

Sora for Your Classroom

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Getting Started with Sora

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Getting Started with OverDrive Marketplace

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Getting Started with OverDrive Marketplace

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Shop, Curate, Promote: Enhance your digital collection during OverDrive's 2021 Chinese New Year Sale

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Shop, Curate, Promote: Enhance your digital collection during OverDrive’s 2021 Chinese New Year Sale

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Sora Saves, Part 1 of 3: Time

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Sora Saves, Part 1 of 3: Time

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Browsing, Building Carts, and Purchasing Titles in Marketplace
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PowerPoint Kit

Browsing, Building Carts, and Purchasing Titles in Marketplace

Browsing, Building Carts, and Purchasing Titles in Marketplace

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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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Annotations with Sora
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Virtual Learning KiT

Annotations with Sora

Annotations with Sora

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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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Black History Month
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Promotional Kits

Black History Month

This kit includes 1 Poster, 1 Halfsheet, and 9 Social Graphics.

Black History Month

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Valentine's Day
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Promotional Kits

Valentine’s Day

This kit includes 18 Social Graphics and 13 Flyers.

Valentine's Day

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Multilingual Marketing Kits
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Promotional Kits

Multilingual Marketing Kits

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Public Library Connect
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Promotional Kits

Public Library Connect

This kit contains 1 Flyer and 9 Graphics.

Public Library Connect

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Social Showdown

Social media Graphics

Social Showdown

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Teen Romance

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Teen Romance

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Getting Started

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Getting Started

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Chinese New Year

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Chinese New Year

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School Stars

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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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