Hauppauge Schools Transform The Student Reading Experience

From Hauppauge Union Free School District: In this mobile age, technology has become increasingly valuable in supporting new generations of lifelong learners and readers. Now, Hauppauge Union Free School District is using technology to expand access to reading materials by connecting their students with the school’s digital collection of educational ebooks and audiobooks. The revolutionary combination of convenience, ease of reading on-the-go, and personalization of the reading experience with both teacher-assigned and student-selected digital books inspires students to learn anytime, anywhere through the OverDrive Education platform.

“Hauppauge School District is thrilled to be offering students another opportunity to read more,” said Dr. Christopher Michael, Director of English Language Arts at Hauppauge Union Free School District. “OverDrive will provide more opportunities to get students to explore new worlds, experience adventures, ask questions and discover answers through reading with Sora as the tool.”

Through Sora, Hauppauge Union Free School District’s new student reading app from OverDrive Education, students will have convenient and safe access to hundreds of age-appropriate ebooks and audiobooks for use inside the classroom, at home and anywhere 24/7. This world-class ease-of-use helps students of all ages read more, improve comprehension and learn critical listening through audiobooks. Inspired by educator and student feedback, Sora offers both assigned and pleasure reading incentivized with fun avatars and achievements within the app to encourage a focus on learning. Sora also supports teachers by offering classroom-specific tools like personal assignments, reading analytics and exportable notes that individualize learning.

Dr. Michael continued: “We know that studies show that students who read more have stronger growth in vocabulary, reading comprehension and verbal fluency. These students who read more independently also tend to score higher on tests and have greater background knowledge which will aid them in their content area studies. Sora will be a powerful tool for our community to continue to motivate and excite students about literature.”

Sora was designed to transform the modern student reading experience and built by OverDrive Education, a division of Rakuten OverDrive serving K-12 schools worldwide.Rakuten OverDrive is the leading digital reading platform for a growing network of 43,000 libraries – including Hauppauge Public Library - and schools in 76 countries.

The Sora app is available for Hauppauge Union Free School District students, faculty and staff to download through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and on Chromebooks that support the Google Play Store. It is also available for use in web browsers at https://soraapp.com.

To learn more, visit https://meet.soraapp.com/.

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