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Leverage Your Booklists and Collections with TeachingBooks

Duration: 20 minutes

State award lists, core or supplemental reading lists—even your own booklists can be helpful instructional tools. Your state-funded TeachingBooks license provides data and resources you can use for collection development. With the power of list analysis and filtering, discover how to save time, validate purchases, and empower your students with data and resources that meet your needs.

  • Leverage your lists as instructional tools
  • Streamline collection development
  • Align resources to student needs

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How to Get the Most Out of Your TeachingBooks Account

Duration: 20 minutes

TeachingBooks is for everyone in your community! Let’s make access effortless and seamless for your students, faculty, and families. Join us and discover multiple ways to share resources about books and authors.

  • Single sign-on (SSO)
  • Buttons and widgets
  • Resource sharing options

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TeachingBooks Essentials

Duration: 20 minutes

Enrich and enliven the connections readers have with books and authors. Discover a variety of resources including author recordings, lesson ideas, custom reading lists, and more.

  • Find and share resources for titles you use
  • Locate ready-to-use activities and teaching ideas
  • Discover newest and favorite features
  • Create and analyze lists

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Using TeachingBooks Graphic Organizers (April 2026)

Explore TeachingBooks graphic organizers designed to help readers make sense of stories they are reading. From comprehension to vocabulary organizers, you’ll discover simple tools that fit perfectly into lessons or independent reading time. We’ll show you where to find these organizers and how to share them with students. Join us for quick, practical tips you can use anytime.

TeachingBooks presents: Summer Reading Programs—Lists and Resources for Everyone (March 2026)

Promote your summer reading program with interactive and engaging resources on TeachingBooks! Discover ready-to-use book lists and tools that connect readers to stories they enjoy. Optimize student choice to encourage and build upon out-of-school reading habits. Leave with fresh ideas to keep readers excited all summer long.

Supporting & Engaging Adolescent Readers with TeachingBooks

Duration: 20 minutes

Explore resources from TeachingBooks that support adolescent readers as they continue to build reading competence. Identify resources and tools to build vocabulary, critically examine text, uncover layers of complexity and the richness of texts, and empower readers to self-select titles.

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America250 on TeachingBooks

Duration: 20 minutes

Join and learn how TeachingBooks supports and commemorates the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. Browse books and lists by grade level and dive into multimedia resources for titles: author interviews, games, activities, discussion guides, and more! Create your own lists and share resources for titles in displays and on social media and entice readers while building deeper connections to the books!

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Leveraging Nonfiction for All Learners with TeachingBooks

Duration: 20 minutes

Elevate student interest in informational text with resources for book clubs, read alouds, story time, independent/required reading, and research. Leave this session with ready-to-use strategies, teaching ideas, and amazing titles to share with your community.

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Using TeachingBooks Graphic Organizers

Duration: 20 minutes

Explore TeachingBooks graphic organizers designed to help readers make sense of stories they are reading. From comprehension to vocabulary organizers, you’ll discover simple tools that fit perfectly into lessons or independent reading time. We’ll show you where to find these organizers and how to share them with students. Join us for quick, practical tips you can use anytime.

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TeachingBooks presents: Summer Reading Programs—Lists and Resources for Everyone

Duration: 20 minutes

Promote your summer reading program with interactive and engaging resources on TeachingBooks! Discover ready-to-use book lists and tools that connect readers to stories they enjoy. Optimize student choice to encourage and build upon out-of-school reading habits. Leave with fresh ideas to keep readers excited all summer long.

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TeachingBooks presents: And the Winner Is…2026 Award-Winning Books and Resources

Duration: 20 minutes

Explore resources to engage your readers as you feature new award-winning titles from the ALA Youth Media Awards, announced on January 26th. Join us for a short celebration of the titles that won… and maybe even some more you shouldn’t miss!

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Timesaving Tips from TeachingBooks

Duration: 20 minutes

TeachingBooks brings books to life with engaging resources. Newly added tools will save you time while strengthening your lessons. Join this webinar to learn about new graphic organizers, monthly lesson plans, and other ready-to-use ideas to share with students, colleagues, and families

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Supporting Early Literacy with TeachingBooks

Duration: 20 minutes

Browse exceptional texts tagged by more than a dozen phonics and phonological awareness classifications. Find graphic organizers and additional activities to support comprehension and vocabulary development.

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Introducing Sora Discovery & Sora Wishlist

Duration: 20 minutes

Students and staff now have access to titles in your Sora collections directly from TeachingBooks! Titles can also be requested through the Sora Wishlist feature.

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TeachingBooks Newest & Favorite Features

Duration: 20 minutes

Whether you are a new or seasoned user of TeachingBooks, discover some of our newest additions and crowd favorites.

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TeachingBooks presents: Growing Readers – Early Literacy Support

Duration: 20 minutes

Whether in the classroom, the library, or at home, support the development of early literacy skills using TeachingBooks resources.

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