TeachingBooks Now Available Across Kentucky
TeachingBooks is designed to help students from kindergarten through high school learn more about their favorite books and authors while also enhancing reading comprehension and instruction.

“We want to instill a love of reading in every Kentucky student by helping them find meaningful connections to books,” said TeachingBooks Founder Nick Glass. “Whether in the classroom, library or home, we want students to know these resources are available to them 24/7. And, we want all Kentucky families to feel empowered to encourage reading engagement at home with fun family involvement.” 

TeachingBooks, provided free by the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives (KDLA), currently features over 376,000 resources for approximately 100,000 books for children and young adults.

The available resources include:

• Discussion and activity guides; 
• Read-along audiobook performances; 
• Video book trailers and video recordings of the book being read out loud;
• Book-themed activities, including concentration games, word searches and jigsaw puzzles;  
• Author name pronunciation recordings, featuring more than 3,000 authors who reveal and personalize the backstory about their names; 
• A feature to help discover books similar to others that readers have enjoyed; and more. 

To access TeachingBooks, go to TeachingBooks.net, enter a favorite book, series, author or subject in the search box, and begin exploring! Public libraries that wish to initiate customized access for their library should visit TeachingBooks.net/KYSetup. For questions about TeachingBooks, call 800-596-0710 (option 2) or email accounts@TeachingBooks.net.

Statewide TeachingBooks access is provided using existing agency funds from the Library Services Division of KDLA and is funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.