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

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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

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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Sora Reading Challenge
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Reading activities

Sora Reading Challenge

Sora 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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Social and Emotional Learning Collection

FREE EBOOKS & AUDIOBOOKS

Social and Emotional Learning Collection

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Annotations and Vocabulary

Classroom Features

Annotations and Vocabulary

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Sora - For Every Reader Flyer
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Posters & Flyers

Sora – For Every Reader Flyer

Sora - For Every Reader Flyer

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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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Level Up with Sora for Your Classrooms and Curriculum

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Level Up with Sora for Your Classrooms and Curriculum

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Getting Started with Sora

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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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Getting Started with Sora

How-to videos

Sora How-To Video series

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Getting Started with Sora - for Educators

Self-Paced Module

Getting Started with Sora – for Educators

Getting Started with Sora - for Educators

Launch Module

Sora for PK-3 Readers

Self-Paced Module

Sora for PK-3 Readers

Sora for PK-3 Readers

Launch Module

Marketplace: Browsing, Building Carts, and Purchasing Titles

Self-Paced Module

Marketplace: Browsing, Building Carts, and Purchasing Titles

Marketplace: Browsing, Building Carts, and Purchasing Titles

Launch Module

Curated Collections, Title Assignments, and Reports in OverDrive Marketplace

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Curated Collections, Title Assignments, and Reports in OverDrive Marketplace

Curated Collections, Title Assignments, and Reports in OverDrive Marketplace

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Staff & Student Learning Kit – Managing Holds
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Lesson Plan

Staff & Student Learning Kit – Managing Holds

Staff & Student Learning Kit – Managing Holds

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Sora for PK-3 Readers
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Lesson Plan

Sora for PK-3 Readers

Sora for PK-3 Readers

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Annotations with Sora
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Lesson Plan

Annotations with Sora

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

Annotations with Sora

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PowerPoint Kit - Sora for Students
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Virtual Learning Kit

PowerPoint Kit – Sora for Students

PowerPoint Kit - Sora for Students

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Popular Reading
Celebrating Diversity
S.T.E.A.M.
Languages & Learning
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Back to School
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Promotional Kits

Back to School

Back to School

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Engage New Readers
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Promotional Kits

Engage New Readers

Engage New Readers

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Spring Marketing Kit
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Promotional Kits

Comic & Graphic Novels

This Kit contains 2 Flyers (Juvenile & Young Adult) and 1 social graphic.

Comic & Graphic Novels

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Perpetually Popular Graphics
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Promotional Kits

Perpetually Popular Graphics

Perpetually Popular Graphics

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Always Open

Social media Graphics

Always Open

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Back to School

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Back to School

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Getting Started

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Getting Started

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Listen while you...

Social media Graphics

Listen while you…

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K-12 School Blog Posts

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School Stars 2021: Winners Announced

4/16/2021

That’s a wrap on School Stars 2021, and it was one for the record books! With over 200 entries, there were so many wonderful, thoughtful, compelling, heart-breaking, beautiful, engaging, amazing…

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Sora Sweet Reads closes on record year–help us make 2022 even better!

8/23/2021

That’s a wrap on Sora Sweet Reads 2021 and boy, what a year it was! Thanks to you and your students reading across the globe, we saw usage across a record 48,000 participating schools in over 30 countries!
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“Hold” on for one more day…with Sora!

8/4/2021

One thing your students may not know (besides the fact that the title of this post is a Wilson Phillips song) is that a digital title acts like a physical book in one very important way: it’s unavailable to borrow if another student has it checked out.
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