By: Tiffany Wincek, Product Liaison I refuse to believe September is almost over. In childhood, the beginning of any new school year brought excitement colored by anxious chaos: finding a new backpack with an adequate number of perfectly sized pockets, stressing about being forced to…
By: Gael Reyes, Product Support Specialist We’ve already shared some of our top Sora reading app tips for parents in a previous blog, but this time we want you to hear from the real experts who use Sora with their children every day. Whether you’re…
Fans of our All Access Comics package for schools now have over 80 new Marvel-ous (and more!) reasons to say hooray. We’ve added new titles to our premium package of simultaneous-use comics from publishers like Disney, Dark Horse, Marvel, Image Comics and IDW*. Students can…
Join us on Wed., Oct. 5 at 1pm EST for an exclusive look at the comics and graphic novels genre with a special presentation from DC Comics. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear about DC’s new releases and fan favorites with an action-packed list of…
It’s September, and that means that for many North American schools, the 2022 back-to-school season is in full swing. Amid all the hustle and bustle, this is also a great time to reevaluate and update your digital collection, so that your students can get off…
That’s a wrap on another sweet summer of reading in the Sora app! The 2022 edition of Sora Sweet Reads (May 4 – Aug. 17) has officially concluded, and while we’re sad to see it go, we’re also excited to get back into the swing…
You may already use Method Learning’s test prep solutions to help the students in your community raise their ACT and SAT scores. Now, Method Learning is expanding their offerings to include Financial Literacy and Academic Success courses you’ll want to add to your library or…
In our recurring Sora Spotlight series, we feature a different librarian, media specialist or educator who’s become a Sora champion at their school, impressing us with their innovative methods for implementing the reading app and engaging with their students. We’ve asked them to share their…
When you hear the phrase “class set”, it probably drudges up some interesting sensory memories. You might think of battered copies of books like The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird, with broken spines and bent pages – or you might remember the panic…
Google Classroom users seeking new integrations to streamline the way they provide learning resources to students now have a new option available to them: The Sora Google Classroom add-on! The Sora Google Classroom add-on* enables educators to manage reading assignments in the same place they…
As a company, OverDrive has made a mission of and is committed to supporting literacy in schools and communities. Literacy can mean different things to different people – but the simplest, most straightforward view of it calls for a combination of language comprehension and decoding,…
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager Have you met Sora’s Training team yet? If not, don’t worry – we have plans to formally introduce ourselves before the year is out so you can get to know us and the work we do behind the scenes at…