Sora into Summer, 2025

All Northside students may participate in the Sora into Summer Reading Program! All you need is access to a laptop, computer, smartphone, or tablet to access audiobooks, e-books, magazines, and comics anytime, any place you have internet access to download. Downloaded materials can be read anywhere you like!

Tricks:

1. During the summer, you can always use free NISD Wi-Fi at any campus parking lot anytime of day to download. Free Wi-Fi is also available at any San Antonio Public Library parking lot or indoors.
2. Add the Sora App to your personal device. You will eventually be prompted to enter into the portal. But once that's done, you're signed in on your device, you can freely open and close your book without signing in and out.

Sora Sweet Reads will be available starting May 12. You can click on that banner and be guaranteed a book that is ready and available for checkout.

By borrowing and completing a Sora Sweet read e-book or audiobook, you will earn the 2025 Sweet Reads badge. This badge will be used to verify that you've completed reading at least one Sweet Read book. You'll find this badge when you click on the "me" button.

• Read at least 5 books. (This accomplishment will be accounted for in the "Total books opened" stat.) You may read any five books from the Sora collection. They do not all need to be Sweet Reads.
• Officially "finish" your books when you are done (under options on your shelf) so you can earn more badges in your Sora app. See instructions below.

When you are done reading a book, at the end, it will state, "Return title" DON'T click that!!!

• Close the book, at the top right hand corner of the ebook.
  
• Click on the shelf button
  
• Click on Options
• Mark as done
• Mark as done (yes, you'll need to click two different "Mark as done" buttons)
• Then you may return the book

• Earning the Sweet Reads Badge for 2025
• Reading 5 books between May 12 – August 25, 2025

are eligible to win a Samsung Galaxy Tablet. One tablet will be awarded to an elementary student, and one tablet will be awarded to a secondary student.

At home, at the beach, any place you go this summer, read e-books and listen to audiobooks all summer long. If you do, you will qualify to be in a drawing to win a Samsung Galaxy tablet.

There are two tablets available to win! One will be awarded to an elementary student, the other a secondary student. But, as always, everyone wins with full access to free reading any day of the week, any time of day!

If you already use Sora, you can add the San Antonio Public Library. Here are the steps:

1. In Sora, open the menu (in the top-right corner).
2. Select Add library.
3. Search for San Antonio Public Library and select "this is my library" from the results

When you search for books, go back to the drop-down menu under Explore on the left-hand side of the page and select Northside ISD. You will automatically search both NISD and SAPL resources together at once.

The first time you check out a book from SAPL, when you click on the borrow button, you will be asked to sign in to your library.

1. Click on the drop-down menu where it says, "Select your library"
2. Drop and select Northside ISD
3. Enter your username (S# or E#)
4. Click on the "Sign in" button

You will not need to repeat these steps the next time you check out a book from the San Antonio Public Library after you have done this once.

Available starting May 12, 2025, on the explore tab, Sora Sweet Reads are on the first banner you see! Select one of those and read!

Register for AudioFile, and get free audio books selected for you weekly!

If you already use Sora, you’ll need to add the SYNC program’s library. Here are the steps:

1. In Sora, open the menu (in the top-right corner).
2. Select Add library.
3. Search for audiobooksync and select the library from the results.
4. Enter the email address you used to sign up for SYNC.

If you are having any trouble please email synchelp@audiofilemagazine.com

But if you need help, they will be glad to assist!

Simply complete the form when you have completed your challenge, and KEEP READING!

• Easy to use, one tap to get inside a book
• The largest catalog of ebooks and audiobooks…made even larger by access to your public library through Sora
• Teachers can assign titles and track individual student reading progress
• Exportable notes, highlights for collaborative learning

• Personalized with book recommendations and learning tools like dyslexic font, enlarged text, Read-Alongs and audiobooks
• Badges and achievements to engage students
• Same experience on all devices
• Direct support for readers provided by OverDrive

• Use the "find my school option" if you are near your campus, or use any campus...It doesn't matter, even for getting credit for statistics
• You can use Northside ISD as your school.
• Use the "johnpaulstevens" setup code if you cannot find any Northside school or District
• Get in and play with it! Hands on is the best learning experience!
• Consider using Sora as your reading program! It automatically keeps track of student reading time, number of books, and gives badges for student achievements!
• Be careful that students are using the preview feature to determine if they want the book, before they check it out. Check outs will use up metered access and make the book "go away" when our access is used up.
• STUDENTS NEED TO SIGN OUT BEFORE LEAVING SORAAPP.COM WHEN USING SHARED DEVICES .

• My parent reads a Sora ebook to me? YES!
• I listen to an audio books? YES!
• I read magazines or comics? YES!

Reading is reading...as long as you're listening and learning... you will get all the benefits of books!

Students and teachers may:

• Borrow up to three ebook titles at a time
• Place holds on up to 5 titles at a time
• Borrow and return up to 30 books per 7-day period

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Sora can read text that you highlight! Learn more about the "Read to Me" feature on Sora here.