May 12, 2010: Have a Great Time Reading!

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. Use newspaper words and pictures to make a Summer Reading poster.

2. Choose three books in The Mini Page that you would like to read this summer. Ask a friend to choose three books. Talk about your choices.

3. Find newspaper stories that would make good books about an athlete, about making something and about another country. Explain your choices.

4. Which books discussed in this Mini Page are about (a) real people or things, (b) animals, and (c) another time period?

5. Find four newspaper stories. Take the "who" from one story, and the "what," "when" and "where" from each of the other stories. Write a new story that combines your four "W's."

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 identify forms and elements of literature. (Language Arts:Reading)

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