Apr. 14, 2010: Meet Author Rebecca Stead

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).

Activities:

1. Paste three newspaper pictures on a piece of paper. Write a sentence that tells a story for each picture.

2. Pick three books in The Mini Page that you would like to read. Explain why.

3. Match books in today¹s Mini Page with friends who would like them.

4. Which author/illustrator (a) has a hobby you like, (b) writes about real people, and (c) got started with writing or drawing in school?

5. Develop a story to go with a newspaper headline. Draw a series of five pictures that tell the story. Write the story under the pictures.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standards:

• Students comprehend and respond to a variety of images and text.
• Students identify forms and elements of literature. (Language Arts:Reading)
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)