MiniPage activities meet many state and national educational standards. This week's standards:

MiniPage activities meet many state and national educational standards. This week's standards: Students comprehend and respond to a variety of images and text. Students identify forms and elements of literature. (Language arts: Reading)
Activities:
1. Find a photo that you like in the newspaper. Pretend the photo is the cover art for a book. Make up a title for the book. Write several sentences telling what the story would be about.
2. Select your favorite comic strip characters in the newspaper. Now find a book in today's MiniPage that you would recommend to each character. Why would you make that recommendation?
3. Which books in today's MiniPage are about (a) important times in United States history, (b) animals, (c) family members and (d) children?
4. Write a paragraph discussing three people or events that helped E.B. Lewis become an illustrator.
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about one of the authors or illustrators in today's MiniPage. Use these questions to guide your research: When did the individual first decide to become an author/illustrator? What other jobs did the individual have? What kind of training or education did the individual receive? What was the author's or illustrator's first book? What other books has the author/illustrator created?