May 18, 2011: Grab a Book!

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 a newspaper picture on a piece of paper. Pretend it is the cover of a book. Write a title for your book. Write a sentence describing the book.

2. Choose five people in the newspaper. Find a book from today's Mini Page that you would recommend for each of them. Explain your choices.

3. Which books in today's Mini Page are about real people or things? Which newspaper sections would these books fit in?

4. Which books would be good for these classes: (a) social studies, (b) science, (c) art, and (d) physical education?

5. Create a newspaper ad for your favorite book in today's Mini Page.

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)