SAUSD Digital Library Collections for Online Reading

The district has several platforms to make digital reading available to students.

Need a simple Reading Log you can do from home? Try My Reading Record (link will open your own copy of a Google Doc).

Sora

Sora provides the quickest and easiest way to get started with digital titles from our school. Students can log in using their sausdlearns.net account and immediately access thousands of eBooks and audiobooks on almost any device. Get started today at https://soraapp.com/library/santaanausd or download the free Sora app for Android or iOS. The app is already installed on all student Chromebooks. For easy access on other devices, our school’s setup code is: SantaAnaUSD. 

Trouble navigating the app? Try this video overview, this Step-by-step guide or the Sora Help site.

Internet not always available? Connect to a network to download a book, then read offline while not connected. 

Found the book you want, but it's already checked out? Place a hold.

Can't find a title you're searching for? Request a book to be added to the SAUSD Sora collection: Student Book Request Form

Connect Sora to your Public Library account as well!  Add a public library in Sora   SAPL e-card registration  OCPL e-card registration

Reading Bingo Challenges:

November Reading Bingo     Noviembre Bingo de Lectura

Archive of previous months 

Databases

Our databases have magazine and newspaper articles, but there are also full-text books in the databases. For more details, visit the databases page. 

Proquest Discoverer non-fiction ebook collection.

Britannica Original Sources Classic Authors topic hub.

Teaching Books

TeachingBooks.net has tons of information about many of your favorite books and authors, including some full text read-alouds. Login not required. https://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?a=1&adv=title&go=1&bookResource=reading_complete

Tumblebooks

Over 550 titles which include animated talking picture books, books in English, French and Spanish, read-alongs, non-fiction books and National Geographic Videos. This link will log into SAUSD's subscription automatically. 

http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/auto_login.asp?U=sausd&P=books

Epic School

Some teachers have already created Epic! classrooms for their students and enrolled students in their class. If your student does not already have a class code from a teacher, use code gtt8362 (new code for 2020-2121!) at www.getepic.com/students. This will allow student access 6 am-3 pm Monday through Friday. For free access during after school or weekend hours, students must be invited by their classroom teacher.

Other free online reading options

Audible audiobooks https://stories.audible.com/start-listen (includes Spanish content) **temporary while schools are closed**

Words Alive! Story Station: http://www.wordsalive.org/storystation

Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/

The Library of Congress: http://read.gov/kids/

Storyline Online: https://www.storylineonline.net/

Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks    http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

Children's Poetry Archive: https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/

Poetry Out Loud: https://www.poetryoutloud.org/

Read Conmigo: https://www.readconmigo.org/library

The Spanish Experiment: https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/stories

Dawn Sign Press ASL videos: https://www.dawnsign.com/vimeo-on-demand

Link Round-up of ASL Storytime: ASL eBooks and Resources for Deaf Kids

 If you have difficulty accessing any of these resources, please contact the District Librarian, Tamara Davis, at tamara.davis@sausd.us