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December 07, 2016 : A Book for a Winter Day

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. Write a TV commercial for one of the books in The Mini Page. Create a story board – a series of pictures that shows what the commercial will look like – to go with your commercial.

2. Pick the three books you would most like to read. Then share The Mini Page with sever al family members or friends. Ask each person to name the three books they would like to read. Compare your lists. Were any books more popular than others? Why do you think that is?

3. Pick five people in the news. Now match them with one of the books in today’s Mini Page. Why would you recommend the books to these people?

4. Which of the books are about (a) true stories, (b) fiction, or made - up stories, (c) photographs and (d) mysteries?

5. Select one of the authors on The Mini Page. Use the research to learn more about the author: What else have they written? How and why did the author become a children’s author? What does or did the author do other than writing children’s books? Write up a brief biography of the author.

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 t o a variety of images and text. (Language arts: Reading)

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

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