“Grow a love of reading”: How a TN librarian teaches lifelong learning & reading skills with digital [Sora Spotlight]
By: Kristen Hein, Account Manager Each Sora Spotlight profile showcases educators who’ve become Sora champions at their school, impressing us with their innovative strategies to implement the platform and engage students. We’ve asked them to share their stories so that we can all be inspired…
1 WEEK ONLY: Get 50% off “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” ebooks!
If your kids can’t get enough of the middle school mishaps of Greg Heffley, then we’ve got a sale you definitely won’t want to miss. From now until Dec. 3, you can enjoy 50% off One Copy/One User editions of Books #1-17 of Jeff Kinney’s…
Sora in the Classroom: English Language Arts
By: Angela DiBenedetto, Product Support Specialist In this recurring Sora in the Classroom series, we discuss lesson ideas that utilize Sora to support your state and district technology and curriculum requirements in all subject areas. In Part One of this series, we will focus on…
Give thanks & read: Get November outreach assets on the Resource Center
Tis the season to give thanks – and somehow, it happened in a total flash! One minute, I was walking down aisles overflowing with fresh school supplies. But all I had to do was blink, and suddenly I’m trying to figure out who’s offering the…
Find new world language books for students with just a click
One of the key advantages of digital books that we’ve heard about from our partners before is that it’s much simpler to deliver books to students in languages other than English. If you have a large population of English language learners (ELLs) but you’re not…
Last call for live 2023 training! Skill up for 2024 with magazines & Marketplace essentials.
It’s hard to believe it, but (somehow) the year is almost over. The calendar year, that is. For North American schools, the holidays are less an end point than a waystation – a rest stop before heading into the final (and some might say longest)…
5 must-know dos and don’ts of digital magazines
Your first magazine subscription is almost like a rite of passage. When I was growing up, my mom and I used to share issues of Reader’s Digest – but the rule was, with few exceptions, that she got to read it first. So as a…
12 thrilling & chilling books to keep your teen readers on their toes
I admit it – I don’t really like horror. Movies, that is. I have an overactive imagination, and even the dumbest horror films are guaranteed to have me contemplating sleeping with the lamp on for a night or two. Books, however, are a different story….
Get the inside scoop on where to find the best savings on comics for your school!
Chances are, your students are crazy for comics. (In fact, according to one School Library Journal survey, 61% of school librarians have noticed a significant increase in interest in graphic novels and manga over the past few years). And why not? They offer lots of…
3 tips to prep for AASL 2023 (including 1 freebie!)
Are you headed to the American Association of School Librarians National Conference (Oct. 19-21) in Tampa Bay, FL this year? If so, you won’t want to miss a stop at the Sora booth (Booth #509). You can learn about the latest digital book trends straight…