HEADLINE WORDS
   Choose a Deseret News headline that interests you. Circle one of the important words in it and then read the story to see how many times that word is used. Circle it each time you find it.

COMIC CAPERS
   Choose your favorite comic strip from the Deseret News. With a pencil eraser, gently erase the words in the bubbles that show what the characters are saying or thinking. If you erase carefully, just the words will disappear and the newsprint itself will stay in tact. When the dialogue bubbles are blank, rewrite new dialogue to change the comic strip from what it originally said and meant.

OUT OF THE NEWS
   Fold a piece of construction paper into fourths. Label the sections with these titles: Something to Eat, Something to Play With, Something to Wear and Something to Work With. Go "shopping" in the Deseret News to find wordss and/or pictures that fit each category. Clip them out and paste them in the proper sections.

THOSE ABCs
   Choose one page of the Deseret News to use for this activity. Time yourself or choose a friend to race against you as you circle all the letter of the alphabet, in order, starting with A and ending with Z, that you find on the page.

SPORTS JARGON
   Look through the sports section of the Deseret News and skim some of the articles. Locate three words that mean win and three words that mean lose. Write a sports sentence for each of the new words you found.

WORDS, WORDS
   Clip out the following letters from the Deseret News headlines: a, e, p, e, n, p, r, s and w. Rearrange these letters to make as many separate words as you can. How many letters were in your longest word? Can you use all nine letters to make one word?

CLASSIFIED ADS
   Locate, write down and explain ten different abbreviations found in the classified section of the Deseret News. Pretend you have something to sell and compose a newspaper-style ad that could be used in the classifieds.

PHOTO PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
   Find an interesting news photo in the Deseret News and clip it out. Answer the following questions about the photo: 1) What do you think happened just before the photo was taken? 2) what is happening in the photo now? 3) What do you think happened right after the photo was taken?

SENTENCES IN THE NEWS
   Select an article in the Deseret News that is of interest to you. Read the article and use a crayon to circle a simple sentence, underline a compound sentence and put a box around a complex sentence. Then on a separate piece of paper, rewrite the complex sentence as two or more simple sentences.

COUPONS
   Clip out money-saving coupons from the Deseret News and arrange them in order, from smallest to largest savings. Give the coupons to a parent or caregiver to use when they go shopping.

MORE THAN AND LESS THAN
   Search the food ads in the Deseret News . Circle in blue crayon all the items that sell for less than a dollar. Circle in red crayon all the items that sell for more than a dollar.

THE RIGHT TIME
   Find the daily television listings in the Deseret News. Locate two of your favorite prorams. Draw clock faces for each one, showing the starting and stopping times for both programs.

FIND THE SHAPES
   Look through the pages of the Deseret News for different geometric shapes. Circle each square in purple crayon. Circle each circle you find in blue crayon. Circle each rectangle in brown crayon. Circle each triangle in green crayon. Which shape did you find the most?

MEASURING UP
   Find the longest column of print on one page of the Deseret News. Measure it with a ruler. How long is it? How wide is it? Find an advertisement and take its measurements. Find a photo you especially like and measure its heighth and width.

COUNT THE PAGES
   Count the number of pages in each section of the Deseret News and write them down. When you have all the numbers listed, add them together to see how many pages there in the whole newspaper. Do this for a week to see which day's newspaper had the most pages.

AROUND THE WORLD
   Look in the A section of the Deseret News for world news articles. Find the names of five different countries. Circle each one in crayon. Locate each country on a world map. Write two sentences about each country.

WANTS AND NEEDS
   There are many advertisements for things to buy in the Deseret News. Some things are needed by people and others are not always needed, but are wanted by people. Look through the newspaper for ads of items that are needs and other items that are wants. Which kinds of ads did you find more of? Why do you think that was the case?

TIME TO TAKE A TRIP
   Choose somewhere special in the world that you would like to visit. Plan a trip using articles and advertisements found in the Deseret Morning Nenws. Include the following information: transportation you will use; what the cost will be; type of clothing you will need to take; things you want to see while you're there; why you chose the place that you did.

100 YEARS FROM NOW
   How would you like your society to be remembered 100 years from now? Make a time capsule box with clippings from the pages of the Deseret News that could tell people of the future what it was like living during this particular period in history.

IN THE PRESIDENT'S FOOTSTEPS
   Keep track of the travels of President George W. Bush as you follow stories and articles in the Deseret News. Each day for two weeks follow where he goes. On a world map, mark his journeys with small footprints yo have cut from colored art paper. Where has President Bush gone lately that you would like to go? Why?

HOW MANY COLORS?
   Locate a color picture you like in the Deseret News. Clip it out and name all the colors you can see. Show the picture to a classmate or a family member and let him/her look at the pictue for one minute. Take the picture away and give the person a piece of paper to write down every color they can remember seeing.

THE PRIMARY COLORS
   Name the three primary colors. Choose a comic strip you like from the Deseret News, clip it out and paste it on another piece of paper. Color it using only the three primary colors. Draw a comic strip of your own underneath the one you clipped from the newspaper. Color it in any colors OTHER THAN the three primary colors. Which comic strip do you like best? Why?

FUNKY JUNKY VS. GOOD FOR YOU
   Search the ads in the Deseret News for serveral days, looking for pictures of all kinds of foods. Clip them out each day and put them in an envelope to keep them safe. When you are done collecting, divide all your pictures into two categories: funky junky foods and good for you foods. Paste the pictures on a poster-size piece of paper that you have labeled correctly. Did you find more funky junky foods or more good for you foods?

EXERCISE FOR GOOD HEALTH
   Search the classified ads of the Deseret News for advertisements of exercise equipment. Circle each one you find? How many did you find? Clip out the ads and paste them on a separate piece of paper, in descending order, from the highest priced item to the lowest priced. What prices were your highest and lowest pieces of exercise equipment?

• Set aside time to read the newspaper each day for no other reason than enjoyment. No test, no follow-up. Just no-strings-attached reading to help develop the reading habit. There's usually something of interest for everyone and reading is more enjoyable when it's something of interest.
• Stories are often attributed to news services. See how many different services you can find mentioned in the newspaper. Discuss how news services work.
• Some people feel there is not enough good news in the newspaper. Put it to the test. Categorize each article in the newspaper as good news or bad. Which has more? Explain why you think newspapers often print "bad news." Is any news good for some people, bad for others?
• Use the 5 Ws and H (who, what, where, when, why and how) to analyze a newspaper article. How many of the questions are answered in the lead paragraph (usually the first or second paragraph)?
• Choose an interesting letter to the editor and draw an editorial cartoon to illustrate it.
• Clip photos from the newspaper. Write an imaginary news story about one of the photos, using the 5 Ws and H (who, what, where, when, why and how). Or use an unusual photograph as the starting-off point for creative writing. Use the people or event pictured in the story.
• The comics, games, puzzles, etc. are all feature items. How many different kinds of regular feature items can you find in today's newspaper?
• Headlines are written to fit the space allotted. Distribute news stories without headlines. Write one- to two-line headlines for these stories, making them no more than 30 characters long. (Spaces count as characters.)
• Write classified ads for items you want to sell. Be creative in abbreviations you use, but keep in mind that other readers should be able to understand the ads!
• Rewrite classified ads in full sentences, interpreting abbreviations and using unabbreviated words.
• Find the longest classified ad in the paper. At $1 per line, how much would the advertiser pay? Try this with other ads, as well as other per-line costs.
• Newspaper artists often draw pictures to enhance a story in the newspaper, especially feature stories. Illustrate an article in the paper, using information in the story for ideas.
• Make crossword puzzles based on recent current events. Distribute puzzles among the class for fun and competition.
• Collect quotations of world leaders that appear in newspaper articles. Write the quotations on the board and decide which might become famous sayings or be recorded in history as important remarks.
• Find five places mentioned in the paper that are located in different time zones. For one of the places, imagine what people there are doing while students here are in school, eating lunch, sleeping, etc.
• Race against time to find the following science-related items in the paper: the weather map, an ad for "junk" food, a product that uses petroleum, a health tip, an ad or article about energy, a job requiring computer skills and an article about an environmental problem.
• Find the following math-related items in the paper: fraction, decimal, average, percentage, ratio.