Summer Reading Program: Make a Splash!

Do you have an active NIE summer school program? Are you interested in developing a summer reading initiative and supporting your public library’s efforts to encourage summer reading? Consider the 13 features provided by the North Carolina Press Foundation designed to support two of the Collaborative Summer Library Program’s (CSLP’s) summer reading themes: Make a Spash, Read! and Make Waves at Your Library. Each feature provides a hands-on activity that involves newspapers.

How can newspapers use these educational features?

• Use any or all of the features

• Add newspaper logos or logos for sponsors in the space provided in all features

• Publish the features in print newspapers and/or e-editions

• Post links to the features on newspaper Web sites, such as education sites and sites targeting parents

• Distribute the features through email or other communication to NIE teachers

• Offer the features/activities to public libraries as giveaways

• Select and complete activities with groups of students at your library

• Use the poem, Molly Morrow’s Message, as a model for a writing opportunity that encourages students to write a poem about a current event or issue and publish the poems in print or online (when publishing student work, if the student is under 13, be sure to follow laws; often newspapers use first name and last initial as signature for student work)

• If you’d prefer to use full color versions of these features, click here go to the North Carolina Press Foundation’s Web site to download.

 

The series includes twelve quarterpage activities and one half-page feature focused on Molly Minnow, a poem about a timely issue (coral reefs) that relates to the summer reading theme. The poem encourages readers to write a poem in response to current events. Special thanks to the North Carolina Press Foundation for sharing these materials, to teacher and author Tom Tufts who provided the poem and to The News-Times in Morehead City, N.C., for designing the features. Thanks to NIE
professionals and the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) for offering advice and to CSLP for approving use of its logos for this project.

If you use these materials in any way, be sure to let Mary Miller know and please send tearsheets if you use them in print.

NOTE! ABC does not treat libraries as classrooms when counting circulation. BUT, Libraries offer the community key resources and share concern for literacy and First Amendment, the values that underpin educational programs supported by newspapers.

The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) enables public libraries in member states to provide children with high-quality summer reading materials. Public libraries in 48 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa and the Mariana Islands take part in the Collaborative Summer Reading Program (CSLP). For a description of the program, visit www.cslpreads.org.

Contact your local public library to discuss and make plans for working together.

Click here to find the public library near you.

For more on Newspapers in Education please contact Mary Miller at: mmiller@nynpa.com or call (518) 449-1667.

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