Sounds Reading Club Reaches New Heights In 2010
Published on December 2, 2009 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Sounds are excited to announce the return of their highly successful Reading Club program for the 2010 season. The program aims to utilize the fun of the Sounds experience to emphasize the importance of reading throughout area schools.
The Sounds Reading Club program is anticipated to reach more than 85,000 students at over 300 area schools. Ozzie, the team's mascot, will star in over 50 assemblies across Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky, making stops at schools as far as Brownsville, Ky. and Marshall County, Tenn. The Reading Club is by far the team's most successful community program. In the 12 years since its inception, the Nashville Sounds Reading Club has attracted over a million students.
"Education must be a top priority in our country and our reading program is a great way for the Sounds to get involved and increase children's excitement for learning," said Sounds general manager George King. "We are proud to say that it has become one of the largest educational programs in minor league sports and is an important facet of our annual schedule."
Ozzie and the Sounds front office staff are scheduled for a three-month-long school tour, beginning in early 2010, to help promote the club's emphasis on the importance of reading.
The Sounds Reading Club is designed as an eight-week, incentive-based reading program that allows students to earn prizes for reading books. The program is based on reaching bases on a baseball diamond with home plate as the final goal. Each segment lasts two weeks and represents a base.
Age, grade level and reading ability are all taken into consideration to set attainable goals. Guidelines may focus on the number of books read, number of pages read, and/or number of newspaper articles read.
The Sounds provide the schools with posters for each participating classroom to serve as a fun way for the students to keep track of their progress around the bases of the baseball diamond. And as part of the fun, one of the many prizes is a free ticket to a Sounds game during the 2010 season.
The Sounds will host seven Reading Club games to recognize participants and teachers at historic Greer Stadium throughout the upcoming season:
- Wednesday, April 21, 11:05 am
- Friday, April 23, 7:05 pm
- Friday, April 30, 7:05 pm
- Saturday, May 1, 6:35 pm
- Wednesday, May 12, 11:05 am
- Saturday, May 15, 6:35 pm
- Sunday, May 16, 2:05 pm
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