Timeless Texts - a collection in Sora with classic books that are always available - can be used with full classes.
Professional Danielson-aligned ebooks for teachers from the NYC School Library System.
Teachers - get book sets delivered to school through MyLibraryNYC!
MyLibraryNYC is a partnership between the NYC DOE and NYC’s public libraries which provides access to over 10,000 book sets to support teachers with a variety of materials including book sets, Playaways, games and more. Use your DOE email to order sets.
Browse the catalog and order sets for delivery: https://www.mylibrarynyc.org
First time users, click here to sign up: https://www.mylibrarynyc.org/signup
If you have questions, or problems placing an order, email Ms. O'Connell.
Microsoft Immersive Reader Instructions and Video
Great tool to support struggling readers by allowing them to customize Word documents, narrate and translate text, and even record students' voices to analyze their reading.
Guides to Multiple Microsoft tools such as Translate, Live Captions, Loop, One Note, Flip, Speech-to-Text and more.
Teachingbooks.net contains a large and ever-growing collection of instructional materials about children's & YA books and authors. These include book guides, lesson plans, Meet the-Author interviews, Literature-based Vocabulary Lists, videos, audio, book trailers and more.
3 minute video intro to Teaching Books
Lit2Go is a free online collection of classic stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
The News Literacy Project has resources to support teachers in using AI in the classroom, and teaching students about AI.
Teachers - we would love to support you in any way we can. Please look at the flyer below for some ideas for what we can do with/for your classes. If you have something else in mind, please feel free to ask!