Activities Page

Read stories and write your own headlines.

Create a letter hunt.

Make a hunt of vowels, blends, suffixes, etc.

Create crossword puzzles using words in headlines.

Classify comic characters young/old, male/female.

Create a favorite comics survey and graph the results.

Cut up comics, then sequence the segments.

Analyze cartoons.

Read "Letters to the Editor", then write your own.

Select a favorite columnist and explain why you selected him/her.

Determine whose opinions the editorials represent.

Find the national city with the highest and lowest temperature.

Fronts- where are they coming from and where are they headed?

How high will the waves be on the lake tonight?

Solve a problem sent to an advice columnist.  Write your solution.

Pick your favorite prime time show.  Make a survey of your favorites.

Create a crossword puzzle for food, sports etc.

Make an alphabet book.

Find sets of pictures and words.

Classify the pictures and words.

Letters and numbers come in many sizes.  Make a display of them.

Find the longest words and list them.

Divide the words into syllables.

Start a collection of quotes.

Take a trip with a famous person in the news. (Politicians, sports figures and entertainers do a lot of traveling).  Where are they going and why?

Find the continents in the news and locate them on a map.

Sequence current events by the time they occurred.

Classify them by location.

Decide if stories are "good" or "bad" news.  Good or bad for whom?

Classify photos by subject and emotions.

Guess what the photo is about, then read the caption.

Name Game- Write down names of people in the news, then see if you can match them to pictures.

Make a bulletin board of "What's Happening?"

Write stories to go with the photos.

Name the nouns in a photo.  What verbs can be found in the caption.

Interview a favorite athlete.  Write a column on your favorite sport.

Final score- Try adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing scores.

Look at sports statistics and develop some for you school or class teams.