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A Sora Reading Contest
A Sora Reading Contest
Everybody loves prizes! Stephanie Harney at Quest Elementary (Hilton) hands out 3 prizes every marking term to the top Sora readers in her school. She uses the Student Dashboard in OverDrive Marketplace to see the stats.
Dashboard stats include:
# of books opened
Total reading time
# of reading sessions
# of active days
Average time per session
Average time per book
On the Big Screen
On the Big Screen
At Churchville Chili High School, Sarah Amorese uses the TV screen in the library to host student book reviews along with their bitmojis.
Choose Your Next Book
Choose Your Next Book
When is a survey not a survey? When it's a book teaser! Angela Boccuzzi-Reichert (Merton William Middle School, Hilton) used Google Forms to create a choose-your-own experience for her students. They choose a genre then get opening sentences from four novels to choose the one that grabs them. Links to a book trailer and the book's Sora page are their reward.
Set Up a Virtual Display
Set Up a Virtual Display
Use Canva to create a page of virtual book displays to promote reading. You can easily update them with new titles. Share them with staff to promote them as a resource for Sustained Independent Reading.
The Magic of QR Codes
The Magic of QR Codes
Use the site QR Code Monkey to create QR codes for the audiobooks in Sora. Create labels to attach to the books covers of physical titles in your collection. That way students can pair a physical and online audiobook copy of the book. This also easily identifies books while students are browsing the collection.
Bitmoji Libraries
Bitmoji Libraries
Created subject-specific bitmoji libraries for the different collections in Sora. Such as online magazine collection, like this one to the right that highlights the tech magazines. These have been especially successful during independent reading sessions.
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