Summer Reading Program: One World, Many Stories & YOU ARE HERE

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?

Newspapers and public libraries  present a unified approach in support of literacy, specifically in support of summer reading. North Carolina Newspapers in Education (NIE) provides newspapers and libraries with features developed on themes chosen by the national Collaborative Summer Library Program (www.cslpreads.org). Each feature offers an activity that relies on news and information. Headings for each activity focus on one of the themes: One World, Many Stories or You are Here. Each feature directs readers to public libraries to learn more.

NC NIE developed 18 features with the heading One World, Many Stories and eight features with the heading YOU ARE HERE. Space at the bottom of each feature allows for additional logos. Newspapers may choose one or more features to run in their print and/or online editions each week during the summer. Features may be distributed on websites, through email or, with approval, at local public libraries.

Though developed and published in color, newspapers may convert features to black and white for publication and distribution.

Thanks to Pam Jaskot, State Library of North Carolina, and Karen Drevo, State Library of Virginia, who provided feedback and logos for this project.

Thanks to The News Times in Morehead City, NC for designing the features.

Click here to link to the NC NIE page hosting this year's downloadable features.

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

Click here to find the public library near you.

The features created to support two 2010 Collaborative Summer Library Program’s (CSLP’s) summer reading themes: Make a Spash, Read! and Make Waves at Your Library by the North Carolina Press Foundation are still available below.

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.

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

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