April 15, 2015 : Meet Author Kwame Alexander

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. Choose one book from today’s Mini Page. Write the title on a poster. Paste newspaper words and pictures about that story on your poster.

2. Choose books to recommend to three of your friends. Explain your choices.

3. Select three newspaper stories that would be good subjects for children’s books. Make a title for each one.

4. Which books in today’s Mini Page are about: (a) actual people, (b) fantasy characters, (c) families and (d) the arts?

5. Write a paragraph comparing Kwame Alexander and Dan Santat. How were their lives alike? How were they different?

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)