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Reading by 9
An annual· subscription to Reading by 9 includes all major investigative series
on the topic and other selected news coverage in a commemorative binder.
Subscriptions cover a full year period from January '98 through December '98.
Subscription pricing: $24.95 plus tax ($1.25) and shipping ($3.50) for a total of $29.70
Individual series will be available at the conclusion of each series for $7.95 each
. plus tax ($.40) for a total of $8.35 .
Payment may be made by sending a check or money order to
SunSource, 501 North Calvert Street, Baltimore MD 21278
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P.O. Box 1377
Baltimore. Maryland 21278-<XX.)1
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January 7, 1998
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LBruce N. Reed
Domestic Policy Council
Old Executive Office Building
Washington, DC 20502
Dear Mr. Reed:
In Maryland and across the nation, we are recognizing that too manx young people are facing
diminished chances for success because of their poor reading performance. At the federal level,
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The America Reads Challenge has been one response. At The Baltimore Sun, we have
responded this fall by launching Reading by 9-a five-year initiative to inspire a measurable
increase in the percentage of 9-yeai-olds who are able to read at, or above, third-grade level.
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I'd like to introduce you to The Baltimore Sun's Reading by 9 program with our first news series
about childhood literacy issues, describing why children aren't reading well and how our schools
can fix the problem by proven methods. We hope this series and future Reading by 9 news
coverage will serve as an important resource to educators, legislators and government officials,
parents and all those concerned with childhood literacy issues. For that purpose, we will provide
monthly reprints of selected Reading by 9 news coverage upon request. The Sun is very
involved in community partnerships that raise awareness ofthe reading performance issue.
I invite you to join in the dialogue The Sun's multifaceted Reading by 9 program has sparked. If
you know of other concerned individuals or groups who have a special interest in childhood
literacy, please let us know so that we can send them reprints, too.
For more information about Reading by 9, please call Carol Dreyfuss, Public Relations Manager,
at 410-332-6047. To request additional copies of this news series or to request future monthly.
reprints of selected Reading by 9 coverage, contact The Baltimore Sun's SunSource department
at 410-332-6800 or sunsource@baltsun.com.
Sincerely,
Michael E. Waller
Publisher and CEO
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December 12, 1997
For Immediate Release
For further information contact
Carol Dreyfuss, 410-332-6047
Baltimore Sun's "Reading by 9" Coverage Evokes Response
From Education Community and Public
Reaction to The Baltimore Sun's Reading by 9 news coverage, a major
component of the paper's five-year initiative to improve reading performance among
children, points to an education community and
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aroused by the major issues the
series raised. The initial series focused on the ways schools teach children to read and the
way colleges prepare their students to teach reading. Reader response through The Sun's
Sundial call-in line, web site, and letters to the editor, along with the response on a state
and national level, indicate that the series has been effective in raising awareness of the
reading problem in our country. According to Baltimore Sun Editor John S. Carroll,
"The positive response has been significant. Reading by 9 seems to have struck a chord."
Among educators, the reaction was swift. Just days after the first series appeared,
Maryland Superintendent of Education Nancy S. Grasnick said she plans to ask the state
school board early next year to require more college reading instruction courses for
teachers to become state-certified. She also announced her intent to ask a state task force
examining reading instruction to thoroughly review recent research, such as studies
sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The NIH studies were covered
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in The Sun series.
'The series has raised the level of the long-running debate over "whole language"
versus phonics methods of teaching reading. The November 28 Baltimore Sun reported
that Dennis Hinkle, dean of education at Towson University, took issue with The Sun's
portrayal of Towson's program but said, "The series has helped us focus our attention."
According to Dr. Hinkle, Reading by 9 articles and subsequent discussions with fellow
deans led him to plan a series of "summits" on reading beginning in 1998.
Teachers, parents and the general public have contacted The Sun. For the first
series, Sundial recorded almost 600 calls, with many of the callers using up their entire
allotted two minutes; and SunSpot, The Sun's web site, reported 15,000 to 20,000
additional hits a day. Jacqueline Thomas, Sun editorial page director, characterized the
volume of letters following Reading by 9 coverage as an "extraordinary" response on a
single issue. Requests for reprints of the articles, available on a monthly basis or asa
full-year subscription, have also been brisk.
The Baltimore Sun, which lau~ched Reading by 9 in November, is publishing
recurring news series on childhood literacy. Beginning in January, there will be regular
news coverage for five years along with frequent related editorials. In addition,the Sun
,will introduce regular Reading by 9 feature sections including interactive family pages to
invol ve children in reading.
The Sun's Reading by 9 commitment also includes a tutoring program whereby
Sun employees will provide between 5,000 and 1'0,000 hours of instruction in schools a
year.
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For Immediate Release
For further information contact
Carol Dreyfuss, 410-332-6047
Readingby9
501 North Calvert Street
P.O. Box 1377
Baltimore. Marvland 21218-0001
410 322-6041
BALTIMORE SUN LAUNCHES DAILY READING BY 9
FEATURES AND NEWS PAGES ON FEBRUARY 22
Celebrates With Reading-Centered Events for Children on February 25
Every day, there will be something new in The Sun to further the reading success
of Baltimore area children.
Moving ahead on its five-year initiative to improve the reading performance of
children and its large-scale commitment to the community, The Baltimore Sun will begin
regular Reading by 9 features and news pages on Sunday, February 22. The Just for
Kids feature, Parent and Child page, and a Reading by 9 news page are part of a
comprehensive program that includes a volunteer tutoring program and community
partnerships. These interactive pages, as well as ongoing news and editorials on reading
related issues, are intended to serve as a resource for families, teachers and everyone
concerned about literacy among children.
Corporate partners supporting the objectives of Reading by 9 are: WJZ-TV, Bell
Atlantic, BOE, First National Bank of Maryland, Legg Mason and the University of
Maryland School of Medicine.
The formal launch of the new Reading by 9 component will take place in
Baltimore on Wednesday, February 25 with events motivating children to read and
encouraging parental involvement in children's reading. These events are being held in
conjunction with the National Education Association's planned announcement that March
2 is Read to Kids Day. That date is the birthday of the legendary children's book author,
Dr. Seuss. The Baltimore area community is being asked to rally behind the nation-wide
campaign by "Reading by 9 (p.m.)" to a child on March 2.
The February 25 festivities will begin at 7 :40 a.m. at Penn Station with a Green
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Eggs and Ham breakfast for area school children with Dr. Seuss t Cat in the Hat. State and
city officials will be on hand for the event, hosted by Baltimore Reads. At noon, the Cat
in the Hat and celebrity guest readers will join 200 first graders at the Pratt Library to help
them experience the joys of reading. Classes from two of The Sunts five partner schools,
in which Sun employees are tutoring, will be present.
The introduction of regular Reading by 9 news and features follows months of in
depth coverage of reading-related issues, which evoked response from the education
community and the public. The new Just for Kids feature will appear Monday through
Saturday in The Sun's Today section. Mondays will feature Yak's Corner with games,
puzzles~
and educational stories. Tuesdays will feature www.4kids, a guide to the
worldwide Web. Wednesdays will feature Sports Illustratedjor Kids. Thursdays will
feature KidNews, a roundup of news aimed at children. Fridays will feature Beakman,
with science projects to do at horne. Saturdays will feature Katie's Wee Do Puzzles, a
visual word game for parents and children.
The new Parent and Child page will appear on the Sunday and Wednesday pages .
of the. Today section. In addition to a read-aloud selection, there will be a variety of other
features including book reviews by children, reviews of reading games and software, and
, a question and answer column for parents.
The new Reading by 9 news page will appear every Sunday in The Sunts
Maryland section. This page will provide concentrated coverage of reading instruction
and reading performance issues.
To ensure that all Sun readers are introduced to these new Reading by 9 pages, all
weekend and weekend plus subscribers will receive free copies of The Sun throughout
launch week, February 22 to 28.
The Baltimore Sun Company is a subsidiary of Times 'Mirror, a Los Angeles
based news and information company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times, Newsday,
The Baltimore Sun and other newspapers; a wide array of professional information for the
legal, health sciences, aviation and training markets; and consumer magazines.
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READING BY 9 FACT SHEET
The Baltimore SUlI.has developed all.d ill,vested ill. a multi/aceted,five-year
illitiative to improve tlte readillg skills ofchildren. Readillg by 9 is a
comprehensivecommuility service program that seeks to inspire a
measurable ill crease ill the percelltage of9-year olds who are able to read
at, or above, tltird grade level.
THE PROBLEM: Only 35.3 % of all third-graders in Maryland achieved a score of
"satisfactory" or above on the state's standardized test (Maryland School Performance
Assessment Program). There is evidence that children who fail to read by the age of nine,
or third grade, rarely catch up in later years. This, in tum, leads to other learning
obstacles that often impede success.
THE SUN RESPONSE: The Sun - as part of its core purpose to improve society by
seeking truth and understanding - will use all its institutional components to increase
public awareness of the issue, hold parents and schools accountable, and recognize
performance gains.
READING BY 9 COMPONENTS:
News and Editorials * Features * Special Sectiolls
Commullity Partllersllips * Television Segmellts
* Employees Tutorillg ill Schools *
• 300 news articles and more than 75 editorials a year plus Reading by 9 special reports
and three new features, including reading material for children and their parents,
appearing regularly in The Sun
• Enhancing and expanding school partnerships through a Baltimore Sun tutorial
program whereby Sun employees will provide between 5,000 and 10,000 hours of
instruction in schools a year
• Recognizing reading success through an awards program for parents, students,
teachers, schools and librarians
• Partnering with libraries, bookstores and the local media to sponsor book fairs, book
giveaway programs and a summer reading club
• Expanding The Sun's Newspaper in Education program in conjunction with Reading
by 9 goals, by providing more newspapers in schools for use in the classroom
THE COMMUNITY'S PART: Broad-based participation from other businesses
and community institutions is crucial to the program's success. Through partncring
activities with The Sun, other groups can help to improve reading performance and
invest in an effort that will have a dramatic and lasting impact on business and
society. For more ill/ormatioll about Readillg by 9 alld how you call become illvolved,
cOlltact Luwallda Jenkills at 410-332-6098.
�Reading' by 9
Regular "Reading by 9" News and Features Begin fn February
The Baltimore Sun moves forward on Reading by 9, its five-year
initiative to improve the reading performance of children, with the
introduction of the all-new:
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and News Roundup Page
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1- FAMILY INTERACTIVE PAGE FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Regular features appearing on the Sunday and Wednesday pages of
the Today section on a rotating basis
Read-aloud selection excerpts from children's books
Reading Snapshots famous people share their reading
memories with children
Experts Speak - experts answer parents' reading questions
And more: Electronic resources, Tidbit tips, Book lists,
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Yak's Corner - games, puzzles, educational
stories
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Wednesday - Sports Illustrated for Kids - sports and sports
figures
Thursday - KidNews the best of the Chicago Tribune's
Kid News section
Friday - Beakman science projects to do at home
Saturday - Katie's Wee Do Puzzles a visual word game
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In addition to the regular Activity Corner, Family Interactive Page
and News Roundup Page, The Sun will publish frequent articles
and editorials on the issues and forces affecting Reading by 9 goals.
THE BAlTIMORE SUN
Keep up on all the Reading by 9 news coverage, and enjoy regular
Reading by 9 features for parents and children. Call 410-539-1280
to order your subscription to The Baltimore Sun.
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