WEBSITES

SORA

The Sora app was designed around the modern student reading experience. It empowers students to discover and enjoy ebooks and audiobooks from their school, for both leisure and class-assigned reading. Students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools can access an entire library through their devices through Sora.

To access Sora, students should log in through Student Portal (NCED) and click CLEVER.

Website URL: https://www.cms.k12.nc.us/pages/studentportal.aspx

COMMONLIT

CommonLit is a free digital library of leveled texts -- news articles, poems, short stories, and historical documents. You can filter collections by grade level, Lexile level, theme, genre, literary device, and even Common Core State Standards. Every passage includes footnotes with vocabulary words and essential background information.

Website URL: https://www.commonlit.org/

NewsELA

Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform (and Chrome app) that features current, high-interest articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science. Content is updated daily, with stories from a wide range of sources (from the Associated Press to Scientific American to the Washington Post) in both English and Spanish.

Website URL: https://newsela.com/

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