December 27, 2017 : Winter 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

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Activities:

1. Select a book you would like to read from those in today’s Mini Page. Make a poster for the book. Draw a picture for the book on a piece of paper. Paste newspaper words and pictures that encourage people to read the book around your drawing. Share your poster with friends.

2. Pick a newspaper story that would make a good nonfiction book – a book about real things. Pick another newspaper story that would make a good basis for a fantasy, fiction book. Explain your choices.

3. Select four people from newspaper stories. Match them with a book in The Mini Page. Explain your matches.

4. Which of the books in today’s Mini Page are about (a) science, (b) history, (c) writing and (d) fantasy?

5. Create a new story by blending two books in The Mini Page. Pick two books. Write a description of the story you would create.

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)

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