2011-2012 DNIE Program Information

►Mission Statement
►Why participate?
►Advantages of classroom e-Editions
►Resources for teachers: dnie.com
►Resources for teachers: Sponsored print supplements
►Weekly e-Newsletter
►freep.com and detnews.com
►Classroom newspapers-print
►Classroom newspapers-electronic
►Electronic access information
►Verification Form requirement
►Yak's Corner
►Serial Stories from Breakfast Serials
►Student Contests
►Target Date
►Contact DNIE

Detroit Newspapers in Education and Michigan K.I.D.S., Inc. Mission Statement

Detroit Newspapers in Education (DNIE) and Michigan K.I.D.S., Inc. - the 501 (c) (3) educational nonprofit for The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press - are dedicated to strengthening civic and informational literacy and educational excellence by providing Michigan educators and students with:

• Free e-Editions of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News
• Quality supplemental publications on a variety of topics
• Engaging web-based materials to enrich curriculum and assist in teaching reading, writing and thinking skills
• Programs to connect readers and businesses with opportunities to provide support

We are committed to providing Michigan students with opportunities to become informed and involved lifelong readers, consumers and citizens.

Why participate?

DNIE and Michigan K.I.D.S. are committed to encouraging the daily practice of online reading, research and learning. Every day, the Detroit Free Press and freep.com and The Detroit News and detnews.com bring readers a wealth of information and real-life stories that offer lessons on many levels - all in a format that enhances learning for readers of all ages.

freep.com, detnews.com and the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News print and electronic editions:

• Promote student civic and informational literacy
• Serve as living textbooks
• Provide real-life examples of how school subjects apply in today's world through these "living textbooks"
• Integrate the latest world and local news, politics and technology into the classroom
• Cultivate student interest in current events and diverse viewpoints, broadening the ability to learn
• Spark enthusiasm for meaningful classroom interaction
• Create lifelong learners, more informed consumers and involved citizens
• Endure as a motivating and stimulating teaching tool

Advantages of classroom e-Editions

Your students live in a digital world. The e-Editions of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are excellent interactive tools that help you and your students meet technology and core curriculum learning objectives. With e-Editions you can help your students become:

• Excited about current events
• Engaged with 21st century learning tools
• Adept at identifying credible, trusted sources of information - learning to identify fact from opinion and news from gossip is an important part of doing research in today's "wired" world.
• Motivated to learn and improve their literacy skills
• Experienced online researchers by using trustworthy news and information found in e-Editions of the newspapers as well as at the freep.com and detnews.com web sites.

You can use e-Editions with your students in a variety of ways:

• Students can work independently with e-Editions in classrooms, computer labs, or from home computers
• You can project the e-Edition using a projector or digital white board so the whole class can explore and read articles you select along with you
• Use links to e-Edition articles as part of your study guides and assignments posted in Moodle.com, Blackboard or other learning management systems
• E-mail or print articles for students to read

Resources for teachers: dnie.com

Educators may visit dnie.com to access a variety of resources for teachers, students and parents - many of which are updated every Monday! The site includes content for younger readers, and ready-to-use lessons and activities for classroom use with the Detroit Free Press and freep.com and The Detroit News and detnews.com.

Resources that are updated every Monday include:

• Cartoons for the Classroom is a joint effort between the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and NIEonline to provide lesson plans based on political cartoons. Every other week a new set of pdf files is posted for teachers to download and print out for their classes. One page is a lesson on a specific topic; the other is a blank cartoon on that topic that students can use to test out their own captions before reading the lesson and answering the questions.
• Daily Science Webcasts - Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound
• e-Edition Plus is a weekly current events story for young readers with discussion questions that can be used as conversation starts or writing prompts and newspaper activities that send students to both Web-based news sites and print newspapers.
• Front Page Talking Points, with a related Video Report, explores the hottest news topic of the week and provides a series of three "Get out Your Newspaper" Action Points.
• Interactive Geography in the News is a weekly exploration of a region in the world that is currently in the news. Each lesson starts with a map for students to find the region being discussed. Five questions are presented in an interactive format to test student's knowledge of world geography, with instant scoring as submitted answers are judged and correct answers provided. A printer friendly version of each week's quiz is also provided for use in the classroom without the need to be online. An archive of lessons is also made available, providing dozens of past lessons.
• Interactive News Quiz based on stories in last week's Detroit News
• NEW for 2011-12! Kid Scoop online - Kid Scoop is an interactive educational activity feature for the youngest readers, which is updated weekly. E-Scoop offers links to Web sites with lesson plans, games and more information on the topics featured in Kid Scoop.
• News Video with weekly topics for discussion
• This Week in History is a weekly calendar of historical events around the world.
• USA Weekend Teacher Guides
• Use the News lessons are three sets of lesson plans targeted for specific grade levels: K-4, 5-8 and 9-12. Each set consists of five activities for using the newspaper in the classroom. Each question or activity includes references to the appropriate learning standard being addressed. An archive of lessons going back a full year is also made available. News Bytes for e-Editions is a graphically rich version of Use the News.
• Words in the News is an interactive online VOCABULARY builder with automatic scoring and correction. Teachers or students can generate quizzes - by words or definitions - based on word lists appropriate for elementary school, middle school or high school students or direct the students to the website. A printer-friendly version is also. In addition, each week a new word is defined and placed in context using a snippet from a news story.

Additional classroom tools include NIE Institute Educational Resources - Over 300 instructional resources, including subject-specific teacher guides and student supplements; and video & audio teacher training modules.

Also at www.dnie.com, teachers will find regular updates and information about educational programs and opportunities available to Michigan teachers and students through DNIE and Michigan K.I.D.S., Inc.

Resources for teachers: Sponsored student supplements

DNIE offers sponsored print student supplements on a variety of topics along with daily access to e-Editions of the Detroit Free Press or The Detroit News. In some cases, sponsors will make it possible for schools to receive print delivery of student supplements without the daily newspaper. Watch this site for currently available student supplements.

DNIE Weekly News e-Newsletter

Sign up for the weekly e-Newsletter, which is usually sent Monday afternoons throughout the school year from Detroit NIE [dniewklynews@dnps.com] with the subject line beginning DNIE Weekly News -.... The newsletter has all the latest offering from DNIE, links to weekly lessons and activities, passwords for teacher guides, announcements about upcoming contests and special deliveries, and links to educational resources that may benefit teachers or students.

►Click here to register if you aren't already getting the newsletter, or call 1-800-678-0789. To ensure delivery, please add dniewklynews@dnps.com to your email address book or safe senders list.

freep.com and detnews.com

True living textbooks for Michigan's education community, freep.com and detnews.com feature news and information that is updated throughout the day, making the newspaper websites up-to-date companions to print and e-Editions of the two newspapers.

►Visit freep.com
►Visit detnews.com

Both sites also feature extensive sports coverage, multimedia, newsletters, community news and information.

Classroom newspapers-print

Customer-paid delivery of Thursday and Friday editions of the Detroit Free Press or The Detroit News Fully are available for 25 cents per copy. Sunday newspapers are available for 75 cents per copy. Sunday newspapers are delivered on the following Monday. Print delivery is not available on any other days. Print delivery is ONLY available in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.

►Click here to order print copies of the Free Press

►Click here to order print copies of The News

Classroom newspapers-electronic

Both the Free Press and Detroit News e-Editions include access to one month of back issues.

Electronic access information

Electronic copies - e-Editions of the Detroit Free Press or The Detroit News are available via the Internet early each morning. Access to the e-Edition requires a username and password set, which is provided by DNIE after you order an e-Edition program. The username is nie followed by your order number. The password, which is case sensitive, is randomly assigned for each teacher but can be changed by contacting the NIE office at 800-678-0789. Please contact Sharon Martin, NIE Manager, at 313-223-4460 with any concerns related to accessing e-Editions.

►Click here to order e-Editions of the Free Press

►Click here to order e-Editions of The News

Verification Form Requirement

Teachers receiving delivery of sponsored e-Editions must sign an affidavit confirming request, receipt and use of sponsored electronic newspapers. In short, even if delivery of the newspaper is to your computer rather than your school door, it is still considered to be delivery for which we need confirmation in lieu of payment.

Whenever possible, affidavits are sent by email, so please provide a current email address as part of your customer profile. We are required to bill customers who don't return affidavits, so please respond upon receipt!

Yak's Corner from Michigan K.I.D.S. Inc.

Yak's Corner, the award-winning eight-page news magazine for ages 6-13, produced by Michigan K.I.D.S., Inc., our educational nonprofit 501(c) (3), is filled with local stories, events and people plus current events from around the world in "Yakking About the News." You'll also find the "Kids in the News" feature that lets your students see how kids across the county are making news. Each week, you'll find "Yaktivities" posted at www.yakscorner.com, which you can use to help your students build comprehension and vocabulary using that week's Yak's Corner.

Yak's Corner will be published on 32 Thursdays during the 2011-2012 school year, beginning September 15, 2011 and ending on June 7, 2012. During this period Yak's Corner will not be published on November 24, December 22 & 29, January 5, February 23 and April 5 & 12. If you'd like to use Yak's Corner in your classroom, you have three options:

1. Read Yak's Corner free online each week, with access to fully sponsored (free to you) e-Editions of the Free Press through June 15, 2012
2. Pay 5 cents per copy to have the printed Yak's Corner delivered to your school each week, including access to fully sponsored (free) e-Editions of the Free Press through June 15, 2012
3. Pay 25 cents per set and have the printed Yak's Corner PLUS an equal number of print copies of the Free Press delivered to your school each week through June 7, 2012

Serial Stories from Breakfast Serials®: Only in Monday e-Editions of The Detroit News

Throughout the school year DNIE publishes serialized stories from Breakfast Serials, which will ONLY appear in the Monday e-Edition of The Detroit News on the Young Readers Page. Along with each chapter, we'll print student activities, including vocabulary words, questions about each chapter and newspaper connections. In addition, educators may download a complete teacher guide for use with each serial story.

Breakfast Serials appeal to readers of all ages, but are especially relevant to young readers who grow to anticipate each week's chapter. These gradually developing stories provide students time for additional reflection and speculation. Students will talk about the characters, predict what is to come and enrich the imagined story with their everyday experiences.

2011-2012 school year serial stories

Breakfast Serials stories will appear in The Detroit News e-Edition on 35 Mondays during the 2011-2012 school year. Teachers subscribing to The News' electronic edition Breakfast Serials Program will find each week's chapter on the "Young Readers" page by using the Section drop down box in the Monday e-Edition. Don't have time to read Breakfast Serials chapters on Mondays? Each e-Edition chapter can be accessed for up to 30 days via the "Back Issues" option. The Breakfast Serials program includes fully sponsored (free to you) electronic delivery of The Detroit News Monday through Saturday from Monday, September 5, 2011 through Friday, June 15, 2012

The 17-chapter fall story, Bella Bella, starts Monday, September 19, and ends January 23. The 18-chapter winter/spring story, The Secret of Smith's Hill, starts Monday, Jan 30 and ends Monday, June 4.

►Click here now to order Breakfast Serials or read descriptions of the two stories and then order.

►Click here now to order Breakfast Serials or read descriptions of the three stories and then order.

Student Contests

DNIE coordinates several annual contests, which are open only to Michigan students. Watch for a fax notice or check this site for upcoming contests or contest results for the following contests:

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2011-2012 "Yak's Corner Favorite Book Character Contest" for Grades K-6

Sponsored by Michigan K.I.D.S., Inc.

Yak's Corner, the weekly news magazine for grades K-6 produced and distributed by Michigan K.I.D.S., the educational nonprofit for the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, invited Michigan students in Kindergarten through sixth grade to submit drawings of their favorite book character and tell us why this is their favorite character. Characters could be from any book of fiction, provided that the character is not originally from a TV series or movie. For example, SpongeBob SquarePants is not an acceptable character.

We received 2524 entries from schools throughout Michigan: 126 from Kindergarten students, 105 from first graders , 305 from second graders, 328 from third graders, 462 from fourth graders, 423 from fifth graders and 775 from sixth graders.

Judging and Prizes

First- through fifth-place winners were selected for each grade by Yak's Corner personnel. Entries were first judged on the quality of the drawing and then on the description of why this was a student's favorite character. First- through fifth-place winners will receive Barnes & Noble gift cards in the amounts of $40, $30, $25, $15 and $10 respectively. We also selected honorable mentions for each grade.

All winners, including honorable mentions, will receive personalized Certificates of Excellence. Certificates for all winners, gift cards for the first- through fifth-place winners, and the original winning artwork will be sent by certified mail to the teachers of winning students by the end of February. We will also mail certificates of participation, which can be personalized by teachers, to all teachers who requested them.

Winning artwork will be displayed online. The artwork of first- through fifth-place winners will be featured in the March issues of Yak's Corner, beginning with first-place winners on March 1 and concluding with fifth-place winners on March 29.

Questions? Call Sharon Martin, Detroit Newspapers in Education Manager and Michigan K.I.D.S. officer, at 313-223-4460 or e-mail smartin@dnps.com

►Click here for a complete list of 2011-2012 winners

►Kindergarten winners
►First Grade winners
►Second Grade winners
►Third Grade winners
►Fourth Grade winners
►Fifth Grade winners
►Sixth Grade winners

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The 2012 Ford Freedom Award Essay Contest for Grades 4-8

Brought to you by Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services in cooperation with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

The Ford Freedom Award is given posthumously to honorees who have dedicated their lives to improving the African-American community and the world at large through their chosen fields. The 2012 Ford Freedom Award, "Talent, Tenacity, Teamwork: African Americans in Sports," honors the New York Renaissance basketball team, the first all-black, fully professional, African-American-owned basketball team. The 2012 Ford Freedom Award Scholar, who is chosen for furthering the Honorees' achievements for a new generation, is NBA Hall of Famer and newly selected U.S. Cultural Ambassador Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

In celebration of the 2012 Ford Freedom Award's recognition of these remarkable athletes, Michigan students in grades 4-8 are invited to submit essays on the following topic:

This year the Ford Freedom Award recognizes accomplishments in basketball and other sports - and the importance of teamwork. If you could put together a dream team consisting of three individuals (living or dead) to work with YOU to help your community, who would you pick and why, and what would the team do? Your dream team members do not need to be sports figures but can be from any field (civil rights, medicine, the arts, etc.)

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As part of the Play Baseball Detroit FUNdamentals outreach program dedicated to strengthening and expanding youth baseball and softball programs, the Detroit Tigers is offering FREE Baseball FUNdamentals School Clinics for K-5 gym classes in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.

►Click here for program information

►Click here for a School Application

Jackie Robinson Art, Essay and Poetry contest presented by the Detroit Tigers

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in his April 15, 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, marking a milestone in baseball history. As a way of keeping the memory of Jackie Robinson alive, the Detroit Tigers invite middle and high school students from the metro Detroit region to enter the 2012 Jackie Robinson Art, Essay and Poetry contest by submitting an original essay, poem, or work of art in honor of Robinson.

Get more infomation here:
►Contest Announcement    ►Contest Flyer    ►Contest Entry Form

Target Date Project

Target Date is all about compiling and comparing a collection of newspapers published on the same day. Students and teachers can select the date in advance, at random, or it can be one of special significance because of its expected news. Teachers can tie the newspaper comparison to almost any unit or theme.

The Target Date project is now easier than ever. With your classroom subscription to the Detroit Free Press e-Edition, you also receive access to 45 additional Gannett newspapers, including the Arizona Republic, Cincinnati Enquirer, Des Moines Register, Florida Today, Indianapolis Star, Louisville Courier Journal, Nashville Tennessean and more.

Additionally, most newspapers participate in the Target Date project and often will mail students a copy of the actual newspaper, if a student writes a formal letter of request that explains the class project. Letters may be sent to the Newspapers In Education, Media In Education or Educational Services Department of the newspaper. Most newspaper Web sites provide a name and address for the individual who handles educational programs for the newspaper.

Contact DNIE

For General Delivery Questions & Verification Forms:
PH: 800-678-0789
EMAIL: dnie@dnps.com
FAX: 313-496-4801

Direct Contact
Sharon Martin, Newspapers in Education Manager 313-223-4460 or smartin@dnps.com
Tyna Smith, NIE Field Services Representative 313-222-6411 or tmsmith@dnps.com
John Lardin, NIE Order Processing Manager 313-222-6436 or jlardin@dnps.com

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