August 26, 2009: Meet Author Margarita Engle

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Activities:

1. Draw a baseball on a piece of paper. Paste newspaper baseball words and pictures on your drawing.

2. Look through newspaper ads to find baseball equipment. List the equipment you want. Put the price next to each item. What is your total?

3. In your newspaper's sports section, circle national baseball team names in red, circle school teams in blue, circle Little League teams in green.

4. How does the Little League experience help players develop (a) friendships, (b) knowledge of geography, and (c) good sportsmanship?

5. Pretend your Little League team is going to the World Series. Write a story about your team's adventure.

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 standard:

• Students comprehend and respond to a variety of images and text. (Language Arts: Reading)
• Students identify forms and elements of literature. (Language Arts: Reading)
  
  (standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)