Select item "sent to back"

I am trying to select an item that I have sent to the back. I can't select it no matter how hard I try. I am working from a blank template. What am I doing wrong?
The deal is I have students creating a calendar and they are creating a background my using a square and coloring it and sending it to the back. But then if they want to change it they are unable to select it.
Is there an easier way?

Every page in Pages has a default text box on it -- you can see if you go to the View menu and choose "Show Layout". When you create a item and then send it to back, you send it behind the level of this text box, which makes it difficult to select again since the default box is in front of it.
This isn't a real problem if the graphic extends outside the default text box -- just click on the portion outside the box, and it should be selected. However, if it is completely covered by the text box, then there are a few other solutions.
One solution is to Select All from the Edit menu, which will highlight all the objects on the page, then choose Bring to Front, which will bring the background object in front of the text. Here it can be worked on, and then sent back when finished. (Note that for Select All to work properly, your insertion point can't be in the text box, or the command will select all the text in that box. Also note that if the background graphic does not have text wrap turned off, it may move the text around when brought to front, but this should rectify when sent back.) The downside of this approach is that it will bring all elements to front, which isn't great if you have other layered elements.
The other solution is a bit of a kludge, but it works -- first bring the background graphic to front as specified above. Then, create a box shape, and move it outside the margin of the default box. Select this box and the background graphic, and group them together. Now you can send this grouped graphic to back, and whenever you need to access it, simply click on the box, and move the grouped item forward and ungroup it. This will preserve the rest of the layering, and only change the level of the background graphic. When finished editing, group the items again and send to back. When the entire project is done, select the grouped items, ungroup, and delete the now-unneeded box.

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