Mar. 23, 2011: Are You a Poet? You Know It!

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. Find an exciting newspaper picture. Write three short sentences about the picture. Write each sentence along one side of a large triangle.

2. With a friend, make a list of verses that help you remember something.

3. Circle newspaper headlines that show alliteration or assonance.

4. Circle newspaper words that end in the same sounds, such as -at, -ake or -amp. List the words. Use the words to make your own poem.

5. With a friend, pick two related things in the newspaper, such as sports teams or comic strip characters. Make a poem using words and phrases that describe your item. Now read your poems aloud, alternating lines.

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 describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in poems. (Common Core Standards)

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