August 20, 2014 : Meet Holly Black

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. Make a newspaper ad for one of the books in this issue.

2. Select four newsmakers from today’s newspaper. Recommend a book from The Mini Page for each newsmaker. Explain your choices.

3. Pretend you are a reporter writing about four of the books in The Mini Page. Write a headline for each book.

4. Which of the books are about (a) animals, (b) fantasies, (c) real-life situations and (d) mysteries?

5. Select a newspaper photo for the setting of a story. Select one newsmaker and one comic strip character for the story. Use the setting and characters to create a new story.

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)